I'm the speaker coordinator for CLUE in Denver.
We get locals to speak. Generaly, we post requests
for speakers to the local email lists and at times
we solicit for speaker. There's little reason to
fly someone out when there are probobly interesting and informative resources right in your community.
In our LUG, anyone can do a talk and we divide our meetings up into two presentations: A KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) talk, which is a simple 30 minute introduction to some basic Linux area, and a main presentation which is usualy somewhere between 1 and 2 hours.
The KISS presentation is generaly done by and for newbies in order to get folks into presenting and to encourage participation. The idea is to introduce something and discuss a bit. Additional resources are given to help people to persue it on their own.
The main is usualy (but not necessarily) by an expert or guru and is a more detailed discussion.
I installed the Corel Linux Beta 2 and it asked me my name. It asked me whether I wanted to install a large development environment or a more basic environment. (I chose the large dev environ) It then asked me if I wanted to fist partition the disk or just install onto free disk space. I decided to use it's unbelievably easy and totally graphical disk partitioning tool, which uses pie charts to illustrate the disk usage as you up the partition size. Then it installed. I went and ate dinner while it indicated it's progress with a progress bar. When it was done, my CTX laptop was fully working including X. I was up and running with no need to tell it anything about my hardware. The desktop is very cool, and it uses the Debian package system which is extremely powerful. You can either use the user friendly Corel method, or the command line traditional debian methods. I upgraded some of the packages over the web using apt-get. I'm more impressed the more I think about it still being beta. Good luck.
See DISH network for satelite programming and certain network channels (West/east COast majors) Echostar has more bandwidth/satellites/transponders than anyone. THey are also as cheap or cheaper than anyone else.
I work there and the coolest thing is that they are using Linux as the development platform for some of their new embedded systems.
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I'm the speaker coordinator for CLUE in Denver.
We get locals to speak. Generaly, we post requests
for speakers to the local email lists and at times
we solicit for speaker. There's little reason to
fly someone out when there are probobly interesting and informative resources right in your community.
In our LUG, anyone can do a talk and we divide our meetings up into two presentations: A KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) talk, which is a simple 30 minute introduction to some basic Linux area, and a main presentation which is usualy somewhere between 1 and 2 hours.
The KISS presentation is generaly done by and for newbies in order to get folks into presenting and to encourage participation. The idea is to introduce something and discuss a bit. Additional resources are given to help people to persue it on their own.
The main is usualy (but not necessarily) by an expert or guru and is a more detailed discussion.
Hope this helps.
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http://clue.denver.co.us
I installed the Corel Linux Beta 2 and it asked me my name. It asked me whether I wanted to install a large development environment or a more basic environment. (I chose the large dev environ) It then asked me if I wanted to fist partition the disk or just install onto free disk space. I decided to use it's unbelievably easy and totally graphical disk partitioning tool, which uses pie charts to illustrate the disk usage as you up the partition size. Then it installed. I went and ate dinner while it indicated it's progress with a progress bar. When it was done, my CTX laptop was fully working including X. I was up and running with no need to tell it anything about my hardware. The desktop is very cool, and it uses the Debian package system which is extremely powerful. You can either use the user friendly Corel method, or the command line traditional debian methods. I upgraded some of the packages over the web using apt-get. I'm more impressed the more I think about it still being beta. Good luck.
See DISH network for satelite programming and certain network channels (West/east COast majors)
Echostar has more bandwidth/satellites/transponders than anyone. THey are also as cheap or cheaper than anyone else.
I work there and the coolest thing is that they are using Linux as the development platform for some of their new embedded systems.
Ed