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[OCLUG-Tech] more emphasis on online tutorials as opposed to meetings?

  • Subject: [OCLUG-Tech] more emphasis on online tutorials as opposed to meetings?
  • From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca>
  • Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:22:48 -0500 (EST)
  in the midst of regular discussions about what talk to have at the
next meeting, i think it would be productive to place more emphasis on
writing/collecting really good and current tutorials on how to do
things in linux, as opposed to always waiting for a meeting to see how
something is done.

  for instance, after rob e. mentioned the raspberry pi, i offered to
demo how easy it is to build a bootable image for one using
openembedded and the publicly-available meta-raspberrypi layer.  but
it so happens i've already written that up and it's available at my
wiki (might need a bit of updating but should still work):

  http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Building_basic_RPi_image

so there's not much point using meeting time to explain something that
anyone can read at their leisure at my web site.

  any thoughts on this?  doesn't mean people need to personally write
stuff if all it takes is locating a perfectly good tutorial that's
already out there.

rday

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