I think that's quite a good idea. I enjoy the informal 'sit-about-and-chat' format but I also presentations enjoyable and interesting when they happen.
I'd love to have someone run through Ubuntu 11.04. I'm becoming slightly less inadequate with Linux and a talk such as this would definitely take me forward. Plus it has a new GUI, you say? Likewise Chrome OS, about which I'd like to know more. I've downloaded it and tried it . . . . and it seems to be a very different animal. What happens for instance, if you have a netbook running Chrome and you aren't on wifi? Does it actually do anything at all? Brian On 25 Jan 2011, at 12:29, Phil Thompson wrote: > On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 21:50 +0000, Brian Smith wrote: >> One problem is that if a speaker gave a talk that I would understand, >> most people would possibly slip gently into a catatonic state. But if >> someone gave a talk at most Linux Users' level I would understand >> barely a word - not that I wouldn't enjoy it for all that. There has >> been regular talk of presentations and sometimes it does happen. But >> again, it's an informal occurrence and this seems to suit everyone. > > Would it help if members suggested topics that they would like to see a > presentation about or demo or hands-on session trying to do a specific > thing ? > > or if members suggested something they're into at the moment and are > prepared to share. > > I've been testing Google ChromeOS and Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha on a netbook, > for example. That might be of interest to someone who hasn't seen the > new Ubuntu GUI or ChromeOS at all. > > > Phil > > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
