From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 19:46:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E817716A403 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:46:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from thin.berklix.org (thin.berklix.org [194.246.123.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 114F343CBD for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:46:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from js.berklix.net (p549A5130.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.81.48]) (authenticated bits=128) by thin.berklix.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kBKJDs17076724; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:14:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from fire.jhs.private (fire.jhs.private [192.168.91.41]) by js.berklix.net (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kBKJDnlm008641; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:13:50 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from fire.jhs.private (localhost.jhs.private [127.0.0.1]) by fire.jhs.private (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kBKJDnkY061639; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:13:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@fire.jhs.private) Message-Id: <200612201913.kBKJDnkY061639@fire.jhs.private> To: jan.husar@skosi.org In-reply-to: <541b7a870611271625p5cecce60m391b2a288bf4a54b@mail.gmail.com> References: <200611271852.kARIqWCt040043@fire.jhs.private> <541b7a870611271625p5cecce60m391b2a288bf4a54b@mail.gmail.com> Comments: In-reply-to "Jan Husar" message dated "Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:25:09 +0100." Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:13:49 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, "Ernst W. Winter" Subject: Re: Anyone know of a pre ready presentation for Alternatives to Microsoft? X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:46:12 -0000 Continuance from thread starting: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-advocacy/2006-November/003003.html "Jan Husar" wrote: > Hello Julian, > > I can take a look of something which i used in past but is mostly > alternatives on workstation level for public administration (cos I'm > solving such issues in European Commisssion) > > the use of open standards such as ODF and PDF/A which is the *MOST* > discussed issue within the European Union. > > Workstation use of Linux and Server running BSD, explanation of why > apache foundation was and is so sucessfull and so on.. > > Hopefully I have it with me, if not You must wait until I come back > home to Slovakia and check my workstation at home. > > Jan > > ps: anyway, it's better to prepare something yourself and you can use > mine as inspiration (or copy/paste even:) Thanks Jan, Did you find stuff I can work from ? URLs or per mail welcome. Open Doc Format of interest, as are other open office standards & tools. I can web host anything approriate / permitted under copyright My presentation is now scheduled for Fri 6 Apr 2007, I plan to prepare in this order: - Appeal for raw material to work from, eg here & I've contacted http://www.allbsd.de/src/Flyer/FreeBSD/PDF/ to see if they want to do a leaflet I could hand out at talk. (Don't want to duplicate work Most of this has probably been done before by Linux people but I'm not sure whee to look, could spend longer browsing & searching than writing my own ? - Familiarise/acquire hardware tools - I have a stick mouse JVC Handy Mouse HC-MM55U - May buy a Wireless Media Presenter (posting soon about them on usb@freebsd.org) - Projector Determine resolution on projector supplied. Decide font size (not too small for back of room) Test with my X config on laptop at end of a previous session - Dummy `slide' preparation Probably on /usr/ports/misc/magicpoint ? Perhaps do a framing macro. - Try KDE system (not needed till now, I'm an old hand at Unix :-) & confer with Ernst cc'd who knows more ports/ for users than me. - Write presentation, including bits from above, + also from eg http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/freebsd/#escape http://berklix.com/free/ http://www.allbsd.de - `Dress rehearsal ;-) to avoid demo effect. - Give presentation. & publish on web after. Anything I've missed ? Any resources (URLs) people can point me at ? (I 'spose as we'll have 2 BSD laptops there, if we bought/borrowed a webcam, we could record it, might interest some who can't travel (& teach me what Not to do again ;-) ) > > On 11/27/06, Julian Stacey wrote: > > Anyone know of a pre- ready presentation for Alternatives To Microsoft ? > > > > I've been asked to give a presentation (in English) to a bunch of > > engineers in Munich end of Jan 2007. On the basis "A good engineer > > is a lazy engineer", I'm asking before I write my own. > > > > I am _Not_ inviting a long thread, to rehash old well worn opinions > > of PD src/ etc. It'd bore me silly to read, let alone respond ;-) > > & be very inefficient & achieve nothing useful to me. I have decades > > of experience as an engineer & with Unix/BSD & have a BSD group > > here to back me up with ideas & criticism verbally & localy, faster, > > more efficient than typing etc :-) > > > > What I don't have, but seek is a set of beamer slides I could > > leverage from to save me time. (BTW I could equally leverage from > > German or perhaps French slides if existant). I could also leverage > > from a linux based slide set prob faster than starting from scratch, > > or at least for inspiration. > > > > Anyone know of a similar presention pre-exisiting, Re. Unix that I > > could leverage from (& give credit to) ? Of course if I have to > > write my own, I'll make mine public on web for others to leverage > > from). > > > > I'll probably use a beamer with /usr/ports/misc/magicpoint unless > > advised better ? (I dont fancy open office bloat to show > > .pps, & dont particularly want to learn how to prepare .pps slides, > > (though I'll probably show a few .pss) from a different topic to show that > > power point presentations are also showable under BSD. > > > > I've bcc'd this to Berkeley In Munich http://berklix.org/bim/ where > > Ernst has volunteered to help me, & others welcome too, but prob. > > best focus short discussion searching for URLs for now via list > > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, Then later, nearer date doubtless > > some local mail to BIM's list. > > > > URLs to presentations welcome. Thanks > > > > Julian > > -- > > Julian Stacey. BSD Unix C Net Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen http://berklix.com > > Mail Ascii, not HTML. Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. > > http://berklix.org/free-software > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > -- > ----------------------------------- > | Jan Husar > | Chairman > | > | http://www.skosi.org > -------------------------- > | freedomeurope.blogspot.com > | GnuPG 1024D/DDB1C1AE > | http://www.opensource.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- Julian Stacey. BSD Unix C Net Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen http://berklix.com Mail Ascii, not HTML. Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. http://berklix.org/free-software From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 20:10:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B79D16A40F for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:10:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from m21.unixathome.org (m21.unixathome.org [205.150.199.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EECA543CBD for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:10:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [205.150.199.217]) by m21.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08D26BF7B for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:43:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from m21.unixathome.org ([205.150.199.217]) by localhost (m21.unixathome.org [205.150.199.217]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 08126-08 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:43:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [74.104.199.163]) by m21.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C412BF56 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:43:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from [10.55.0.99] (wocker.unixathome.org [10.55.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FBDAB8A2 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:43:27 -0500 (EST) From: "Dan Langille" To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:42:49 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <45894BE9.31871.15052C81@dan.langille.org> Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.41) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at unixathome.org Subject: BSDCan 2007 - Call for papers X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:10:32 -0000 Hello folks, BSDCan 2007 will be held May 18-19, 2007, in Ottawa at University of Ottawa. We are now requesting proposals for papers. The papers should be written with a very strong technical content bias. Papers and proposals of a business development or marketing nature are not appropriate for this venue. If you are doing something interesting with a BSD operating system, please submit a proposal. You might be developing a very complex system using BSD as the foundation. Perhaps you are helping others and have a story to tell about how BSD played a role. People using BSD as a platform for research are also encouraged to submit a proposal. Perhaps you want to submit a proposal such as "How we manage a giant installation with respect to handling spam / sysadmin / networking. All these stories are welcome. Both users and developers are encouraged to share their experiences. The schedule is: 19 Dec 2006 Proposal acceptance begins 19 Jan 2007 Proposal acceptance ends 19 Feb 2007 Confirmation of accepted proposals 19 Mar 2007 Abstracts due 19 Apr 2007 Formatted final papers must arrive no later than this date See also Instructions for submitting a proposal to BSDCan 2007 are available from: -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference - http://www.pgcon.org/