[OSDC Israel] feedbacks from the conference

[Amit Aronovitch]

Peter Gordon wrote:

>You wanted feedback so here goes:
>
>The college was a very good site as the lecture rooms were large enough.
>The food was ok.
>Some of the lectures were very good. On the other hand I felt that some
>of the lectures were totally unprepared.
>
>I think that we should try for a conference which targets tools rather
>than languages. For example, I would like to have talks on:
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>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.
>
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The target audience of this conference is developers. While these tools
are interesting
and can definitely be discussed (especially regarding their extension
capabilities and
programmatic interfaces - Mozilla XUL anyone?), we should keep the main
focus on
stuff which is more directly relevant to programming.

>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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 A few of these were mentioned in some lectures. Maybe we should have a
"what's new
on W3" talk, and some talks expanding on specific subjects (there were
also a few of these,
so we should probably list specific topics by name).
 As someone has suggested, we should probably collect such topics on the
wiki for next
conference.