[SWLUG] Lightning Talks

[Kris Zani]

I think 30 mins on Bind would be good.

plus a concise talk on regexps.  most people seem to get by but many 
newbies really struggle.  I've been using them for years but still need 
to google for anything remotely complex.

Kris

Geraint Edwards wrote:

>Ysgrifennodd Justin <justin at discordia.org.uk> said
>		(on Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:07:16PM +0100):
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>>Some of these rooms have a large conference table, with whiteboard and
>>projector facilities, so would be great for more organised debate /
>>talks. Although there would be no refreshments directly available, the
>>pub (and campus bars in term time) are only a few minutes away
>>afterwards.
>>    
>>
>
>This is a great idea - and what I expected a LUG would be doing,
>albeit infrequently.  I'm happy to do my part (for what it's
>worth): giving talks - lightning or otherwise.
>
>I am familiar with giving talks on
>	- DNS/BIND
>	- perl (my scripting language of choice)
>	- regular expressions
>		(used in perl/grep/sed/awk/vi/php/java/etc/etc)
>	- CGI programming (old-style(?) web server-side hacking)
>	- shell programming (Bourne, bash, ksh, zsh)
>	- exim
>to upto 30 people at a time.  I've also given talks to people of
>all abilities (not at the same time, mind!).  I'm used to 2-3hrs
>at a time, though, for most of those - so I might over-run 5minutes.
>Bring popcorn (to throw at me when the 5mins are up).  :)
>
>My all-time-most-used app is probably screen.  I'd be happy to
>give 5+mins talking through that, too.
>
>My (and I hope not just mine) only requirement in return for
>giving a talk is that people provide some feedback - constructive
>criticism.  Even if it's only "too techie for me" or "I knew it
>all already".  Feedback is always handy if it's constructive, and
>no-one is a perfect speaker, so this should help me (us) improve.
>
>Anyone interested in any of the above?  If so, it would be handy
>if you could indicate your level of experience, and how long you
>want spent on it (5mins... 20mins?).  Drop me a line.
>
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