On Sun, 20 Jan 2013, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 02:22:48PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > 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. > > You may not see much point, but different people learn in different > ways and different people get different things out of in-person > meetings. just to be clear, i wasn't suggesting there was no need for meetings; i was suggesting that, after pondering, i didn't see much value in my presenting a lightning talk about using openembedded for building an image for a raspberry pi since i'd already described the process in detail on a web page. the point i'm suggesting is that, if someone proposes an interesting topic, one need not always wait for a meeting to cover it. if someone knows of a good web page, or wants to write one, on that topic, that might be the solution. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================