[Lilug Planning] Is their an April topic?

[Justin Dearing]

Matt,

I can come but I need a ride from the farmingdale train station, and I would
like a ride as far west as possible to a LIRR station.

Yes I can talk about SVG as a minitalk, and doing javascript animations with
it, as well as all the things I would do different know that I know better.

Regarding how to get better talks these are my suggestions from experience
at LIPHP:

   1. Go to talks in the city, I guess NYLUG, and invite the speaker of the
   month to give a talk at LILUG. Thats how I got Kristina at Lilug and LIPHP.
   Thats also how I got Alan Siedan at LIPHP
   2. Demand abstracts from your speakers. Pester them for an abstract until
   you get one.
   3. Actively solicit talks from internal members. Ask specific people to
   give specific talks about specific topics.
   4. Go down to other local events (LIPHP for example) You probalby won't
   get people wanting to do the same talk twice in long island, but most user
   group speakers speak regularly about multiple things.

My $0.02

Justin

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Mark Drago <markdrago at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 23:59, Ilya Sukhanov <ilya at sukhanov.net> wrote:
> > I did a 30 min intro to the n900 last month I feel like expanding it
> would
> > be like hogging  time.
>
> I get what you're saying, but I don't know if it's hogging time if
> there's no one else waiting to give a talk.  Anyone else have ideas
> for a talk?  We could do minitalks of course.
>
> Justin, do you plan on coming tonight?  Do you think you could talk
> for a few minutes about your SVG animation stuff as a minitalk?  I
> wouldn't worry about running linux on your mac during the demo or
> anything.
>
> We need to come up with a better plan for planning talks.  Either
> that, or come up with a plan for changing the format generally.  I
> feel like we're always under-prepared and rushed and then we end up
> with minitalks or something.  The minitalk nights always seem to work
> out well though.  If we just have a shortage of speakers and ideas for
> talks we should reach out to other groups or something.  If we have
> ideas for talks but no one to give them we should collect the ideas
> and see if anyone is willing to research them to give a talk on them.
> Anyone else have other ideas about how to improve the situation?
>
> Maybe we should bring this up at the general meeting tonight?
>
> I'll send out an email announcing the meeting shortly.  I'll announce
> it as a random minitalk night unless someone lets me know of an idea
> before noon-ish today.
>
> Mark.
>
> > Mark Drago wrote:
> >>
> >> Ilya,
> >>
> >> Are you planning on doing a longer demo of your N900 tomorrow night at
> >> Lilug?
> >>
> >> Mark.
> >>
> >> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 13:20, Justin Dearing <zippy1981 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Mark/Matt,
> >>> So is Ilya gonna demo his device?
> >>> Justin
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Justin Dearing <zippy1981 at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Mark Drago <markdrago at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Do you have an idea or were you just curious?
> >>>>
> >>>> A little bit of both.
> >>>> I have had some time to hack around with stuff this week since I was
> >>>> laid
> >>>> off Friday (in between recruiters and interviews). I've been animating
> >>>> svg
> >>>> files with javascript, and toying around with git, all as tangents to
>  a
> >>>> simply jquery widgit I am writng. So I certainly could fill at least
> 30
> >>>> minutes of linux related stuff. A few problems:
> >>>>
> >>>> I'd have to install linux on my G4 to actually demo this stuff on
> linux.
> >>>> It was all done on windows with multiplatform open source tools like
> >>>> inkscape, komodo edit and firefox
> >>>> Its more developer oriented
> >>>> As Matt said, you might already have a topic.
> >>>
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> >
> >
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