Haiku Talk at July 8th NBLUG meeting
During the recent LugRadio Live USA 2008 event held in San Francisco, where Scott McCreary and I organized a Haiku booth (see report here), Scott introduced me to Kyle Rankin of the North Bay Linux User Group (NBLUG). During our chat with with Kyle, we discussed the possibility of holding a Haiku talk at one of their monthly NBLUG meetings (which are held at the O'Reilly headquarters in Sebastopol, Marin County), and today we were invited to do it on Tuesday July 8th. I am making this post to both inform those interested in attending (place and time details will follow at a later date), and to invite feedback as to the content and format of what we want to present. Here are my initial thoughts.
We have a total of about 1:30 hours for the presentation, so as proposed by Scott, we could use the first 60 minutes for a slides + live demo presentation, followed by a Q&A session of 30 minutes. Since none of us are very technically strong (I am actually the least of all), I would prefer if we took more of an general overview approach. To be more specific, here is a quote of how I summarized my Haiku presentation at the Kansai Open Source Forum late last year:
My presentation was simply titled "What's Haiku" and was meant to provide general information about the project in general, including key highlights of the OS, a brief history of both Haiku in itself and in the context of a BeOS timeline, the Haiku code base (ie., a fork of the NewOS kernel, OpenTracker, OpenBFS, AGG-based graphics system, Freetype as a font engine, etc.), current status of the project, and recent developments (SATA support, OSS port, Webkit port, GSoC projects, etc.). I had 16 slides total, that took me about 25 minutes to go through. I then went into a hands-on demo, and wrapped it up with a Q&A session, for the full 50 minutes that I was allowed.
I am not suggesting that we do exactly the same, but I do think something like this could provide a good base; and we may be able to recycle the slides too, but I would have to translate them to English first. :)
I look forward to your input.