[wellylug] If you are stuck for ideas for a lightning talk session

[Grant McLean]

Presumably the WellyLUG session on Monday will take a relaxed approach
to the five minute time limit (as the Perl Mongers did last night) so
the dire warnings in that page can be ignored.

Also, I'm guessing that people with slides will either bring their own
laptop or put them on a web page.  Bringing PDF/OpenOffice/HTML files on
a USB stick could also work.

The suggestion on our page that people might randomly select a Perl
module to talk about could be adapted to "randomly select an OS
package".  For example on a debian-based distro, this 1-liner will
randomly select one of the packages you have installed:

  dpkg --get-selections | \
      perl -E '@p = map { s/\s.*//r } <>; say $p[rand(+ at p)]'

See you Monday.

Cheers
Grant


On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 15:14 +1300, Hugh Davenport wrote:
> Graciously stolen from Wellington Perl Mongers, who had a
> lightning session last night.
> 
> http://wellington.pm.org/lightning_talks.html
> 
> I shall add this to the WellyLUG page at some point.
> 
> Let me know if you get a spark of ideas for a talk next monday!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Hugh
> 
>