Hi, the next LinuxDays preparation meeting is this friday afternoon at 14:30 at the CRP. I won't be able to be there, so in case someone can replace me... The subject of the meeting will be the courses' subjects, with a little agenda (description of the contents), and proposed speakers. There will also be propositions for the frame program (art, music, robotics, ...). So, we need to decide very quickly now what LiLux will propose for courses, and write up at least the agendas (a few lines describing the contents), and write up the names of people who can present these courses. Note for those who didn't see this before (I guess I wrote that only to the admin list until now): the next LinuxDays will be divided in two parts - 1) a business track at SI Expo, which will consist in a series of presentations by some companies and 2) two days of courses plus "villages" about different themes, consisting of stands with computers where people can come ask questions and try stuff out (i.e. no more expo and presentations like the previous years) - this will be end of january 2005. So for LiLux: The idea will be to have a "basic" course for beginners (really basic, don't go into installation or CLI confusion, just using an already installed system) - this we have partly prepared with the basic course from the LinuxDays 2003 and the LinuxFest 2004. Then, we should split up the "advanced" course from last year into several shorter courses regarding different services. This shouldn't be too hard I guess - any takers? If we have the energy and manpower, we could also propose new stuff - any proposals, people willing to do such stuff? I think it is important to be realistic in our propositions, or else we'll be really stretched in getting things done. We can do quite some stuff, especially if more people are willing to help out. Please join the effort! If we start now, we can get some nice courses done - if we start late, it will get painful. Preparing courses does take time to do properly. Greetings & thanks in advance, Eric