Re: need help with OSCON track.

[Gaël CHAMOULAUD <strider gnome org>]

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 01:15, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> Hi Sri,
>
> On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 10:56, Sri Ramkrishna wrote:
>
> > Do we have some canned presentations on GNOME that one could give?  My 
> > manager finally gave approval for me to attend so I find myself struggling 
> > to figure out what kind of tutorial or track that might be interesting.
>
> Have you read this?
> http://usefulinc.com/edd/blog/contents/2003/12/19-oscon/read
>
> That page is Edd Dumbill's idea of things he thinks may be appropriate.
>
> If you want to give a general style of tutorial about what bits make up
> GNOME and how they fit together, please feel free to reuse (either
> verbatim or in modified format) the slides I made for linux.conf.au
> (http://www.gnome.org/~malcolm/lca-2004). The slides as they are on that
> site comfortably filled a two and a half hour tutorial, which included
> about twenty minutes of demonstrations of various things and a lot of
> ongoing questions.
>
> > OSCON's deadline is today at midnight and I would like to have something 
> > at least a tutorial.  While I'm thinking about it, it would be nice if 
> > someone who has done this before could help me out with materials.
> >
> > Secondly, I will probably be doing a booth at OSCON like I did last time.  
> > But hopefully a lot better organized. :-)
>
> Somewhat related, I have been promised a write-up from the guys who did
> the GNOME booth at Solutions Linux last week. Hopefully we can collect
> together a few things like that to help ease the process of having
> booths at conferences (although I realise you have done this sort of
> thing before, Sri. My comment is more in the way of a general thing).

I'm working a write-up atm, I will try to post it soon.
Maybe before the end of this week.
Regarding conferences or GNOME presentations, we have benefit from the
presence of NOVELL, RedHat and IBM to do some presentations on their
booths. That was a great success :)

best regards,

Gaël (strider)