[ale] guickie presentations---ALE NWers

[Jeff Hubbs]

FWIW, I gave a couple of presentations to the "great unwashed" at 
Gwinnett Tech in Jan '01.  My presentation was such that I presented 
Linux as a whole different way to operate as a techie.  I did this thing 
where I said, "I'm the most powerful person in the room.  You know why? 
  It's not because I'm standing up here and you're not; it's because I 
have these..."  I held up some distro CDs.  I stepped forward and 
plopped one on the desk in front of someone in the audience.  "Okay - 
now he's the SECOND most powerful person in the room."

I then made the point that the power so easily conferred does not just 
come from the fact that I and now my benefactee carried enough software 
to power a small government but that we had the power - granted through 
the GPL - to copy it and give it away...

...Which brings me to an interesting point.  If you were in charge of a 
dangerous, belligerent nation with a chip on your shoulder and a mandate 
that "nonbelievers" must be done away with, wouldn't you love to have 
that kind of power working for you and your cause?  The notion of Linux 
as a weapon to be turned against us only indicates to me that we'd 
better have the same weapon and know how to use it better than any real 
or potential enemies.  Yet, our government is still primarily dependent 
on Microsoft software...

Geoffrey wrote:

> 
> 
> Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 
>> Great idea!
>>
>> While I would hate to stand in front of a room full of newbies for 1 
>> hour, I
>> wouldn't mind doing a 15 or 30 minute preso on how to manage
>> sendmail/apache/mailman/ssh.
>>
>> Someone sign me up for a future meeting before I some back to my senses.
> 
> 
> You're in the 'to do a presentation' folder. :)
> 
>> ;-)
>>
>> -Jim P.
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: David S. Jackson [mailto:dsj at dsj.net]On Behalf Of David S. Jackson
>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 11:20 AM
>>> To: ale at ale.org
>>> Subject: [ale] guickie presentations---ALE NWers
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm subscribed to the KPLUG (Kernel Panic LUG) mailing list from San
>>> Diego (my old hometown).  Something they're just starting in their
>>> meetings is 15-minute mini HOWTOs on a small topic for newbies:
>>>
>>> How to set your bash prompt, or installing procmail, or getting audio to
>>> work.  And so on.  What do y'all think?
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> David S. Jackson                        dsj at dsj.net
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