[OSDC Israel] Suggestions for lectures

[Peter Gordon]

Hi, 

I was at the OSDC this week and I made some suggestions as to what I
would like to see at a conference. The major aim being to get developers
up to speed on what is available and also to be of more interest to the
wider community.

This is the letter I sent and someone suggested that it might be
interesting for the August Penguin. 

Regards,

Peter

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I think that we should try for a conference which targets tools rather
than languages. For example, I would like to have talks on:
 
OpenOffice - How to get the best out of Writer, Impress and Calc. Maybe
a bit on how to automation with these tools. How to make Impress look as
good as PowerPoint.
 
Gimp - How to manipulate pictures using the graphic interface.
 
There are many interesting tools out there in the wild which most of us
don't have time to look at. A number of half-hour or hour lectures would
be very interesting.
 
New CPAN modules - a presentation of the latest and greatest CPAN
modules. It doesn't need to be in any great depth. Just something to
raise our awareness of what's available.
 
Linux distributions: The latest news. Which is the best. Ubunto, Gentoo,
Fedora..... Which OSes are the easiest to keep up to date even if there
have been significant changes in Linux, gcc... Which distrubutions deal
best with laptops, hardware... Which distributions are best for end
users. Which distributions have the best internationalization.

Web: An overview of the latest Web technologies. How can these
technologies be used with OpenSource tools.

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Peter Gordon
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Email: peter at pg-consultants.com
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