[Balug-admin] 2005-10-18 BALUG presentation confirmed! :-)

Mon Sep 5 16:53:36 PDT 2005

Okay, I'm confirming I'll do the BALUG presentation 2005-10-18.

We'll need the "VGA" type (DE15) --> NTSC video adapter again, as
before, for our video hookup there.  Also microphone/PA availability is
strongly recommended.

Blurbs/description/announcement, etc.  I recommend these generally *not*
go out until after our 2005-09-20 meeting, excepting possibly:
o brief inclusion in announcement/reminder for 2005-09-20 BALUG meeting,
o perhaps slight web site update(s) to indicate slight bit that we do
  have presentation/speaker lined up for 2005-10-18 BALUG, topic, and
  perhaps presenter
o perhaps similar brief mention to other groups/contacts/LUGs/UGs, etc.
Rationale: by not promoting it (much) before 2005-09-20 meeting, we
hopefully avoid detracting (significantly) from the 2005-09-20 meeting -
particularly if we may not have speaker/presentation for the 2005-09-20
meeting.

And various recommended text blurbs - use the material between the cut
(8<--) lines, excluding those lines themselves. 

Briefest versions (suitable for tiny mention on web page, etc.)
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BALUG 2005-10-18 meeting presentation: Shell Programming, by Michael Paoli
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for web (or e-mail, etc.) BALUG can of course link to
http://www.balug.org/
(or that URL included with e-mail)
Once the "full" announcement has gone out, the remainder of that tiny
text blurb, e.g. on web page(s), could also link to the URL for the
announcement in the BALUG announce archive.

Compact version (probably more useful after 2005-09-20 meeting and after
more complete 2005-10-18 announcement goes out):
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BALUG 2005-10-18 meeting presentation: Shell Programming, by Michael Paoli
This presentation promises to be a quite useful, informative,
interesting, well referenced and fast introduction to Bourne (sh) and
compatible [Korn (ksh), POSIX, Bash (bash), ash, etc.] shells.
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The links/URLs for the above should probably include:
BALUG --> http://www.balug.org/
and link the remainder of that first line to the URL for the
announcement in the BALUG announce archive (once the announcement has
been sent out, of course).

And the "full" announcement - hopefully someone can send out that text
(again, just between and not including the cut (8<--) lines) quite
shortly after the 2005-09-20 meeting ...
and hopefully someone other than myself can send it out, so it
looks/sounds a hair more professional/objective (also, use the first
line of the body, as the subject line):
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BALUG 2005-10-18 meeting presentation: Shell Programming, by Michael Paoli

This presentation promises to be a quite useful, informative,
interesting, well referenced and fast introduction to Bourne (sh) and
compatible [Korn (ksh), POSIX, Bash (bash), ash, etc.] shells.

The presentation will cover a fast, but thorough tour of the shell and
shell programming.  It will cover all the way from why one would want to
learn shell, why start with Bourne, etc., how to compactly learn it,
through and including most key features of shell programming, and some
key differences and caveats among the shells, and a collection of
references to help round out leaning about shell programming.

About Michael Paoli, our presenter for this event:
Michael Paoli has been doing UNIX systems administration for well over a
decade, been doing LINUX systems administration for over 7 years, and
has been using and programming Bourne and compatible shells (bash,
etc.) since even earlier than all that.  He's also done well received
classes/labs/presentations before, including topics of security, shells
and Logical Volume Manager (LVM).

For meeting time, location, cost (dinner), etc., please see the BALUG
web site:
http://www.balug.org/
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references/excerpts:
< Date: Fri,  2 Sep 2005 19:56:33 -0700
< Reply-to: Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu
< To: Dick Verna <rverna01@comcast.net>
< Cc: balug-admin-balug.org@lists.balug.org, rverna01 <rverna01@inow.com>,
<    Larry Platzek <larryp@inow.com>
< Subject: 2005-10-18 BALUG presentation? [:-)] {Re: [Balug-admin] A
speaker/presentation for BALUG meeting - on Shell Programming, to be held at the
...}

< Well, not quite confirmed yet, but at the moment it looks rather to quite
< probable I'll be able to do shell presentation at the 2005-10-18 BALUG
< meeting.  I'll likely be able to have a confirmation on availability for
< that date within the next several days or so (i.e. probably have update
< and likely confirmation by <~= 2005-09-05).  I'd probably also provide some
< suitable text blurbs (e.g. for web site, and draft for announcement(s), etc.)
< at or around that time too.

< Presuming I'm able to confirm, as I likely anticipate,
< I might also suggest for the announce list, when we send out "reminder"
< for the Sept. meeting, we could include a rather to quite brief blurb about
< the Oct. meeting presentation.  I'd suggest it be relatively brief so as not
< to detract from the Sept. meeting (e.g. if the Sept. meeting announcement/
< reminder did more to promote the Oct. meeting than the Sept. meeting,
< folks could be relatively discouraged to go to the Sept. meeting - especially
< if we don't have presentation/speaker lined up for Sept. meeting).  Then
< a bit after the Sept. meeting, we could send out an announcement having more
< details about the Oct. meeting.

> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:12:59 -0700
> From: Dick Verna <rverna01@comcast.net>
> To: Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu, Larry Platzek <larryp@inow.com>,
>    rverna01 <rverna01@inow.com>
> Subject: Re: [Balug-admin] A speaker/presentation for BALUG meeting - on Shell
>  Programming, to be held at the ...

> Thank you for volunteering to speak.  The date for your presentation is 
> October 18th, 2005.  That is the third Tuesday of the month.

<< Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:48:29 -0700
<< Reply-to: Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu
<< To: balug-admin-balug.org@lists.balug.org
<< Subject: A speaker/presentation for BALUG meeting - on Shell Programming, to
be held at the ...

<< Okay, ...

<< An available speaker/presentation that would likely go over well and be
<< rather/quite useful, and perhaps we could draw in a fair (to largeish?) crowd
<< of folks, ...

<< Shell Programming (or Shell Scripting or ... anyway, whatever precise title
<< gets picked) ...

<< I think last time, at least prior to this month, that was brought up /
<< mentioned / suggested for a meeting presentation, it was well under a
<< year after we'd had quite similar (at least in terms of general topic)
<< speaker and presentation:
<< http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2004-August/002877.html
<< (why that was on the talk list, and apparently not the announce list is
<< another matter)
<< and I thought it would be rather redundant to cover something rather to quite
<< similar so soon, ... but now, ... it's been, ... well, it'll be about a
<< year by this September's BALUG meeting, and over a year by the October
<< meeting.

<< Anyway, the presentation and approach, etc. is comparatively different than
<< Mark G. Sobell's, so even if the topic's been done for a presentation as
<< recently as 2004-09-21, it's sufficiently different in delivery and materials,
<< etc. that it shouldn't be horribly redundant for those that may have also
<< caught the 2004-09-21 presentation.

<< Let's see, ... and when, ... 2005-09-20 or 2005-10-18 or later may be
<< possibilities, ... but may not be able to confirm date until approximately
<< early-ish September.

<< Feedback on the materials and such have been quite positive, e.g. including
<< quotes such as: "I've attended other scripting classes, one taught by a
<< professional instructor and one by a PhD.  Neither of these compare to what
<< <presenter> was able to accomplish." (that was for a compact one-day
<< presentation and mini-lab on that topic and those materials by presenter).

<< Oh, ... and what presenter?  That Michael Paoli person again, a.k.a.
<< yours truly.

<< Anyway, I've done presentation (and mini-lab) as a dayish long thing (I think
<< it was <~=6 hours, including lab time and exercises), ... have also done
<< preparations before for doing it as presentations somewhere in the range of
<< an hour or two.  Anyway, without "lab" and exercises and such (but perhaps
<< with some tiny mini-demos) I could whittle and squeeze it to within <~=75
<< minutes (which is about as much "real" presentation time as we end up with at
<< BALUG meetings).

<< So, ... yes, I can certainly do a presentation on shell scripting/programming,
<< but mostly a matter of confirming a suitable BALUG meeting date, and being able
<< to confirm it sufficiently well in advance as to be rather to quite useful.

<< Anyway, I can put together text that can be used for an "announcement" to be
<< sent out (and web page blurbs, etc.) when we've got a confirmed "go" date.

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