Boot Camp Schedule

The official announcement of the SLUG Bootcamp can be found here.

Brief Schedule

Time Topic
All Day Linux Demos on HP provided PCs
All Days Ask an expert advice
11:00am Migration from Linux/Windows
12:00pm Graphics
1:00pm Break for Lunch
2:00pm Desktop and Productivity
4:00pm Audio/Video

Migration from Linux/Windows

Time: 11:00am
Main Talk: Switch from Windows to Linux (Marghanita da Cruz)
Description: Why I switched, When I switched, What I am using on my laptop, Issues/Compatibility with the wide world (Word/Excel), looking to upgrade - Kubutnu Edgy or Knoppix. I can also mention licensing/support/security. Switch to Linux & knoppix.

Lightning Talks:.

  • Dual Boot (Sridhar)

Graphics

Time: 12:00pm
Main Talk: Gimp and Inkscape (Pascal Klein)

Lightning Talks:.

  • f-spot - Personal photo management for GNOME, with camera demo (Jeff Waugh)

Desktop and Productivity

Time: 2:00pm
Main Talk: ‘just works’ hardware support (Jeff Waugh)
Description: what to expect, and the best hardware to use (will demo a printer, maybe a scanner, ipods and usb keys and boring stuff like that, plus lovely network auto configuration with wired and wifi)

Time: 3:00pm
Main Talk: Accessibility in GNOME (Luke Yelavich)
Description: This will cover accessibility of the following applications Desktop navigation, Email, Instant messaging, Word processing, Web browser, Using the keyboard to perform common tasks.

Lightning Talks:.

  • Office suites
  • Scribus (Linley Caetan)
  • File formats (Linley Caetan)
  • Multiple IM providers and software (James Dumay)
  • Web Browsers
  • Mail clients
  • Blogs

Audio/Video

Time: 4:00pm
Main Talk: Generic Players/CODECs (Silvia Pfeiffer)

Lightning Talks:

  • mpd Powering your Home Stereo with Linux (Matt Moor)
  • Video editing: Kino & Video Editors (Marghanita da Cruz)
  • MythTV (John Ferlito)
 
bootcamp/schedule.txt · Last modified: 2007/05/18 00:41 by yama
 
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