Just a thought, but if they are coming, why dont we let them set the tone and
the agenda. We have enough knowledgeable people that show up to be able to
answer just about any topic they come up with. The risk is that something
like that could go on for hours and hours.
On Monday 03 December 2001 18:00, you wrote: > Am 29. Nov, 2001 schwätzte Alan Dayley so:
> > The reason I ask the question is that I have been in contact with Ralph
> > Prowell, a teacher at Collins College. He is currently teaching a 5 week
> > course on intro to *nix or something like that. The same group of
> > students will then be going into the next course on *nix admin. They use
> > Linux as the OS for these courses.
> >
> > Anyway, Ralph will be using the December meeting as a field trip for
> > about a dozen students to come and meet real Linux users and
> > professionals and wants an opportunity for these students to actually
> > learn something.
> >
> > This does not preclude having a sugar party but I think we will need to
> > have some structure to the meeting, like a question and answer session or
> > a brief intro to admin or something like that.
>
> I could do a 10 - 20 min piece on a few topics. Intro to journalled
> filesystems, e.g. what is a journalled filesystem, jumps to mind. After the
> presentation we could take comments from the peanut gallery about the
> different journalled filesystems available for Linux.
>
> I can do a variety of other sys_adm topics. Anything in particular they'd
> like to see?
>
> The key is probably keeping it down to 10 or 20 minutes this month.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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