[LUGSB] Meeting this Friday - call for topics

[Kimberly Albrecht]

I completely know the feeling of not feeling like I know enough about a
subject to talk about it.  But, the point of this meeting is to really try
and make it easy for anyone to get up there and talk about something.  It
doesn't have to be anything too in depth, and it'll be a topic of your
choice.  I'm hoping to have a lot of speakers talking about a wide variety
of things, on all levels of experience.  Really, I'm looking for even the
n00best of n00bs to be able to get up there and talk about something they
like for 5 minutes or so.

Be brave, young marshmallows.  It's all supposed to just be fun.  :)

- Kim

On 3/6/07, Diane Napolitano <dmnapolitano at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/6/07, JT <chozar at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am not a Linux/Unix guru nor a masters student like some people in
> > LUGSB, so I really do not have extensive enough knowledge to give a
> > real talk on anything significant, although I could probably briefly
> > go over some things that I do know.
> >
> > But taking that into consideration, I would be willing to cram as much
> > knowledge into my head about something I don't know, and give a talk
> > about what I have learned.  One thing that I have wanted to know more
> > about for a while now (among many) is NTP, brought more into light now
> > due to DST changes.  I am sure that I could have 5 - 10 minutes worth
> > to talk about on friday, providing I am given leniency in my talk when
> > I say something completely incorrect and mislead people.  Kind of not
> > the best week for me to do this, but I'll be there with something to
> > say about NTP and UNIX time in general.
>
>
> <snip>
>
> You know, I hate to sound like a hippie liberal female here, but I do have
> to say that JT has touched on a good point.  I for one, and clearly I'm not
> alone, am confident in my knowledge, but not confident enough to be sure I
> could hold my own in front of a crowd of 20 people who I'm trying to impress
> while someone from the audience is engaging me in debate.  Think back to how
> many times you've been on a forum and been "instructed" to RTFM for a
> question whose answer you thought was unobtainable.  Now imagine doing that
> in person.
>
> Plus you're not exactly addressing the most sociable bunch here.  I mean
> come on, I come to every meeting and still only talk to the same five people
> (and barely at that, since they kinda intimidate me) :)  It's hard to get up
> in front of a group of people and talk about, gee I don't know, *BSD, when
> you know there's a guy in the audience who has been hacking it since he was
> six ;)
>
> I know this is the type of environment we're trying to work against here,
> but, well...I imagine it's a concern of many on this list, not just myself
> and JT.
>
> - Diane
>
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