[lug] October BLUG meeting - looking for a speaker (and more)

[David L. Willson]

I'm not really a gamer, either. My main interest is that block games are *perfect* for teaching kids programming. Nothing teaches the importance of 2-dimensional arrays and nested loops like a colored block wall. 

Nothing teaches the importance of free-libre software like being told what you are not allowed to do with a piece of software that you've begun to depend on. 

/me kicks himself 

-- 
David L. Willson 
Teacher, Engineer, Evangelist 
RHCE+Satellite CCAH Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 UbuntuCP NovellCLA 
Mobile 720-333-LANS(5267) 
http://sofree.us 

This is a good time for a r3VOLution. 

----- Original Message -----

> I am not a gamer anymore and I don't intend to restart (it has been
> too addictive when I was a late teenager and therefore I had to quit
> or die). But I guess my kids will "soon" be gamers, so I'd better
> educate myself on what happened in these "missing" decades. Such a
> flash talk would be interesting to me.

> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:42 AM, David L. Willson <
> DLWillson at thegeek.nu > wrote:

> > I have several hours of work (play) left to do before I would be
> > ready, but I could do a short talk on free-libre software
> > alternatives to Minecraft.
> 

> > The outline would go something like this:
> 

> > Alternatives to MS Minecraft
> 
> > ===
> 

> > * Why I should never have chosen to trust Notch
> 
> > * Why, having initially chosen to trust Notch, I should have
> > stopped
> > trusting Notch
> 
> > * Why I don't blame Notch
> 
> > * Why Voxelands is awesome
> 
> > * Why Minetest is awesome
> 
> > * Why Terasology is more exciting than awesome
> 
> > * Conclusions
> 

> > Would that be interesting?
> 

> > --
> 
> > David L. Willson
> 
> > Teacher, Engineer, Evangelist
> 
> > RHCE+Satellite CCAH Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 UbuntuCP NovellCLA
> 
> > Mobile 720-333-LANS(5267)
> 
> > http://sofree.us
> 

> > This is a good time for a r3VOLution.
> 

> > > How about another flash talk spree? A "flash speaker" does not
> > > need
> > > to prepare too much, and therefore he or she can do it on short
> > > notice, and most of the activity could be in the discussion with
> > > the
> > > audience (you!). The things I personally would like to hear about
> > > are more on the desktop (since most of what I need to know on the
> > > server side is already covered at work :-)
> > 
> 

> > > Some examples (but definitely the things that I don't even know
> > > they
> > > exist may even be better):
> > 
> 

> > > - window managers again (e.g. MATE, awesome, GNOME3 again, etc)
> > 
> 

> > > - blogging and static site generators (e.g. nikola, blogofile)
> > 
> 

> > > - managing your media, and especially pictures (e.g. kphotoalbum,
> > > darktable, how do you post them online??)
> > 
> 

> > > - on the server side, I'm still interested in "containers"
> > > related
> > > tech, such as cgroups, docker, etc
> > 
> 

> > > If anybody is interested, I can give a flash talk on
> > > https://github.com/adamzap/landslide and/or one on
> > > https://github.com/davidedelvento/qc
> > 
> 

> > > Cheers,
> > 
> 
> > > Davide
> > 
> 

> > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 7:39 AM, anna < anna.cereti at gmail.com >
> > > wrote:
> > 
> 

> > > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > 
> 

> > > > we need a speaker for the October meeting (a work trip got in
> > > > the
> > > > way
> > > > of the speaker).
> > > 
> > 
> 

> > > > If you are available to give a talk at the meeting, or you know
> > > > of
> > > > someone else that could do so, please let me know as soon as
> > > > possible.
> > > 
> > 
> 

> > > > I'd like to remind you all that at the end of this year, 2014,
> > > > I'll
> > > > be done as the speaker coordinator. For BLUG to continue with
> > > > the
> > > > monthly meetings, we'll need someone else to step in. Can you
> > > > be
> > > > that person?
> > > 
> > 
> 

> > > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > 
> 

> > > > Anna
> > > 
> > 
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