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To: "Andrew Cowie" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [activities] Re: I could do your SLUG talk if you need one
From: "James Dumay" <james.w.dumay@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 11:37:11 +1000
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The Inside Out one sounds excellent :)

I won't be a SLUG to see it since im away for the weekend... but
thanks so much for willing to speak at such short notice! Oh and you
will be the first speaker for the evening :)

Don't forget SLUG is buying you dinner :)

Thanks!
James

On 5/25/07, Andrew Cowie <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 10:31 +1000, James Dumay wrote:
> We have a lot of new comers coming from CeBit (nothackers) would you
> have a talk that would suit them? (General Talk)

Freshest in my mind is (since I gave it 1 month ago):
http://www.operationaldynamics.com/reference/talks/ButWhatGoodIsItReally/
which was quite a bit of fun. It was aimed at a student audience, and
covered the general theme of why they, as individuals, should pursue
open source as the context of their work. I could probably adapt it
fairly quickly (and just hide slides and/or apologize for the occasional
student centric reference)

http://www.operationaldynamics.com/reference/talks/InsideOutside/
might have been good, as it speaks to both a general audience and to
hackers. But it's a monster talk specifically aimed as a rabble rousing
keynote for the BIG audience at foss.in. It was a solid 60 minutes plus
and is famous (in India) for having been the only talk at a Linux
conference to have caused a spontaneous standing ovation [Yes, I'm
rather proud about that in the worst hubris sense of the word :)] Not
sure if we've enough time to get into that at SLUG tonight; some of the
ideas *do* turn up in "But What Good is it Really?".

Finally,
http://www.operationaldynamics.com/reference/papers/TrendsInfrastructure/
is the other general talk that might be suitable. Most recently given as
an invited talk to about 1000 people at the Large Installation Systems
Administration conference (LISA '05) in San Diego. It's aimed at a
sys-adminy crowd which LUGs used to be (but perhaps not so much what you
want tonight).

Let me know.

AfC
Sydney

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- [activities] I could do your SLUG talk if you need one
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