Club Linux Coffs Harbour

Below is a very tentative schedule. Unless maked as confirmed the time, topic, and/or speaker is subject to change. While each timeslot is 30 minutes long (assuming roughly 20mins + 10mins for questions), there's no absolute requirement for anybody's talk to go that long, so I'd like to stress that there will be plenty of opportunity for people to do a 5-10min "lightning" demo of something, so please consider volunteering for this. Preparation is optional. It's amazing how easy it is to fill the time.

The Gutsy Gibbon will be released on an unsuspecting world in October. I can load an alpha/beta/whatever onto a machine and run through the new features.

I can give a talk about the best web based software on the planet, Drupal, and the many and varied ways it can improve your life. I can even end with a rousing version of the (in)famous Drupal Song.

I can give the first, "what's this all about?", presentation of the day, but I have done so for the last two years running. Anybody else want to give it a shot?

Useful source material:

• GNU Project's Philosophy section 

With less than a month to go until Software Freedom Day, it's time to get serious. There are a few people I've already cajoled into giving presentations, and room for many more. I've set up a forum here for people to post details of any presentations / demonstrations they'd like to give. You can also post requests for talks or demos on any subject you'd like to learn about.

The vague gameplan is to have a morning session aimed at general/home users, and an afternoon session aimed at work/business users. It would be good if each of these started with presentations at a very introductory level, building up to the more in-depth.

Remember, many if not most of the people attending will have never heard of free software before, so protestations of "I'm not an expert" will not count as an excuse. If you have a favourite piece of free software that you use regularly, you have a duty to spread the word! You don't have be a fine orator, or plan anything extravagant; anything from a ten-minute demo will do.