[Wylug-discuss] Future meetings.........

[Roger Leigh]

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Jim Jackson <jj at comp.leeds.ac.uk> writes:

> Unfortunately I have no talks for July 11th, and as I'm away for 2 weeks,
> I suggest any potential speakers volunteer by email to wylug-discuss
> and thrash it out by email if there are too many of you (yeah - likely :-)
>
>
> I've also only got one talk for this year after august.
>
> So I need people to please put thinking caps on, either
>
>  - volunter to do a talk of any length - a demo or intro or something
>
>  - get in touch with people you know who may do a talk
>
>  - think about alternatives to talks for the meetings.

There have been a number of very good suggestions elsewhere in the
thread.  If you want a speaker, I'll be happy to talk on quite a
number of subjects, though the (second ever!) and last time I gave a
talk was the one in May 2003 on printing!

I think Dave's point that those most capable of giving talks aren't
necessary interested in the same problems as newbies is a good one,
and I'm afraid I do fall into that camp.  Even if I wouldn't choose to
talk about them myself, I have experience of quite a broad range of
stuff, so I should be able to prepare a decent presentation on quite a
number of subjects (given advance warning!).

If anyone is interested in more specialised stuff, I would be happy to
do a short (or long) talks on (for example):

Introductory GTK+ programming (in C, C++ and/or Python, using Glade).
This could be as high- or low-level as you liked.  See
http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/gtk/ogcalc/ for examples.  I spent
several months writing that (it was published in CVu a few months
ago), and I'd be happy to talk about it or related things.

Object-Oriented C, using GType/GObject
Related to programming GTK+ with C.  This includes Object-oriented
design, C++ implementation details (object layout, vtables, typeinfo,
object construction and destruction and their reimplementation in C
using GType and GObject), inheritance, virtual functions, interfaces,
properties, signals, RTTI etc..

These could be really interesting, but I'm afraid that they are fairly
specialised (at least if using C, where a decent amount of knowledge
of OO is required to understand the underlying concepts).

And also

Introduction to setting up and using PostgreSQL.  I've used it a bit,
and written OO bindings on top of the C++ language bindings (which I
maintain in Debian).  This could cover some basic setup and
introductory database stuff--which need not be Postgres-specific.

C and GNU/Linux systems programming (I've used quite a good chunk of
the SUS/POSIX API).
autotools (autoconf/automake/libtool).
m4 (the macro language).
shell (sh, bash).
LaTeX (basic usage, up to writing custom macros).
troff (e.g. tbl, ms, man); writing documents, manual pages, tables.
XFig for illustrations.
Debian package creation.
Localisation of packages with gettext.


Regards,
Roger

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