[Wolves] Lightning Talks

Sat Jun 6 01:00:34 UTC 2020

I could do something around 3D printing and building the Open Source Marlin
printer firmware that runs on various ARM chips in 3D printers. It's
something I've been on somewhat of a deep dive on recently. Would need some
time to put something together if anyone was interested.

Quite keen to to the little lightning talk idea though!

Cheers
Kris

On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 18:25, Adam Sweet via Wolves <
wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> Thanks Chris, I'd be interested all of those. The bottom 5 particularly,
> and the first two later on. I've seen your Bergamot talk twice, but you
> can do it for those that haven't.
>
> FWIW, I've put all this stuff up here:
>
> http://wolveslug.org.uk/proposed-talks/
>
> I'll keep this list updated as people offer subjects they can talk on
> and request some they'd be interested in and we can pick them off over
> time.
>
> Ad
>
>
> On 05/06/2020 16:50, Chris Ellis via Wolves wrote:
> > This is a great idea, and I'd really encourage everyone to try and do
> > a short talk.  No matter how nervous you might feel about it, people
> > won't bite.
> > If you think you can't talk about anything that would interest others,
> > I'm fairly certain you will be able too, as they say, there is a book
> > in everyone.
> >
> > Things I'm happy to talk on:
> > * Ceph - Software Defined Storage - Quick overview and some of the
> > pain I went through with it
> > * Routed Network Fabrics - How to build really high throughput
> > networks dirt cheap using commodity switches and Linux cleverness
> > * Bergamot Monitoring - Need I say more
> > * ESP32 - What is it and getting started.
> > * Containers - Happy to do an intro to Docker / Containers / Podman,
> > how to run stuff and how to build containers.
> > * Kubernetes - What is it and getting started
> > * openSUSE - A quick look at MicroOS and Kubic - new variants of
> > openSUSE which are pretty interesting
> > * Anything PostgreSQL related
> >
> > Happy to listen to anything other people want to talk about,
> > especially things that they find interesting and are passionate about.
> >
> > Chris E.
> > On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 4:18 PM Adam Sweet via Wolves
> > <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >> So, here are some things I could talk about:
> >>
> >> * The command line for beginners
> >> * Network monitoring with Nagios
> >> * SNMP and how to monitor your network with it
> >> * Diet and exercise for geeks
> >> * Taking care of your back when you sit down all day
> >> * How to grow chillies (and other vegetables)
> >> * Setting up a website with Linux
> >> * Network file sharing with Linux (NFS, Samba and SSH)
> >> * Guitar basics
> >> * The basics of cooking good food well
> >> * Introduction to OpenBSD
> >> * The FreeBSD and OpenBSD pf firewall
> >>
> >> Some things I'd like to hear others talk about:
> >>
> >> * Containers (LXC, Docker, podman etc)
> >> * Kubernetes, what and why
> >> * ESP32 (firmware, language runtimes and power saving)
> >> * HomeAssistant
> >> * Python programming, maybe C, C++ and Java too
> >> * Introductions to other distros e.g. (Open)SUSE, Elementary OS
> >> * Basics of electronics
> >>
> >> So, go ahead. Feel free to post a list of things you could demo or talk
> >> about and let me know which of the above you'd like to hear about.
> >>
> >> Only rule here is you should offer more than you request...
> >>
> >> Ad
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 05/06/2020 15:37, Adam Sweet wrote:
> >>> On Weds we discussed the idea of holding regular lightning talk
> >>> evenings, perhaps once a fortnight or once a month as a prelude to
> >>> holding longer format talks in future.
> >>>
> >>> By lightning talks we mean 5-15 minute introductions to a topic that
> you
> >>> know something about and can explain to others. Ideally, that would be
> >>> something geeky or to do with technology but it doesn't have to be, it
> >>> could be some other area you know about like music, cooking or
> gardening
> >>> since we're a diverse group and have lots of interests. Perhaps
> >>> something along the lines of:
> >>>
> >>> * Your preferred Linux distro
> >>> * A particular software application that you know that others might be
> >>> interested in
> >>> * What you do in your line of work (sysadmin or dev tools, the language
> >>> or IDE you use, what technologies you use)
> >>> * Hardware (PC, server, embedded, Arduino, ESP32/ESP8266, radio)
> >>> * Radio stuff
> >>> * A particular musical instrument you play and how to get started
> >>> * Gardening or some other hobby you might have
> >>>
> >>> Obviously, being a 5-15 min talk it doesn't need to be a deep dive,
> just
> >>> an intro and answering some questions.
> >>>
> >>> We're an interesting bunch and we have a lot of expertise in different
> >>> areas of technology and a lot of interests outside of technology so I'm
> >>> sure each of us can come up with something.
> >>>
> >>> So, for this coming Wednesday's virtual meeting, I'd like everyone to
> >>> think of something they could talk about for 5-15 mins on and we'll
> >>> choose enough to fill maybe an hour.
> >>>
> >>> Don't be worried about talking about stuff you think everyone will
> >>> already know, or won't want to know, or getting something wrong, or
> >>> being heckled, we're all in the same boat and most of us have known
> each
> >>> other a long time.
> >>>
> >>> I think we'd all like more LUG content, talks and presentations in
> >>> particular, but nobody actually wants to give them, so we all have to
> be
> >>> prepared to contribute and this is a low barrier to entry.
> >>>
> >>> So, that's the price of admission for the next virtual meeting. If you
> >>> want to join the conf, then be prepared to talk about something. Do a
> >>> bit of prep so you know what you're going to say, maybe prepare some
> >>> slides or do a screen share to show stuff. If we have more than an
> >>> hour's worth, then maybe you won't have to do yours until the next
> time,
> >>> but at least you'll have to volunteered and we'll have something in the
> >>> bank for next time.
> >>>
> >>> I'm going to post a follow-up containing a list of things I could talk
> >>> about and a list of things I'd like to hear others talk about.
> >>>
> >>> Ad
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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