Australia/NZ Linux MeetingsAustralia/NZ Linux Meetings
I am going to start a new Linux focused FOSS online meeting for people in Australia and nearby areas. People can join from anywhere but the aim will be to[...]
Category: Speech
Happiness and Lecture QuestionsHappiness and Lecture Questions
I just attended a lecture about happiness comparing Australia and India at the Australia India Institute [1]. The lecture was interesting but the “questions” were so bad that it makes[...]
Phone Based LecturesPhone Based Lectures
Early this month at a LUV meeting I gave a talk with only my mobile phone to store notes. I used Google Keep to write the notes as it’s one[...]
Length of Conference QuestionsLength of Conference Questions
After LCA last year I wrote about “speaking stacks” and conference questions [1]. In that post I did some rough calculations on the amount of conference time taken by questions[...]
Speaking StacksSpeaking Stacks
Brianna Laugher wrote a blog post about the speaking stack used in the free software activism BoF at LCA 2013 [1]. Occupy Wall St uses what they call a progressive[...]
Globalisation and Phone CallsGlobalisation and Phone Calls
I just watched an interesting TED talk by Pankaj Ghemawat (of which the most important points are summarised in a TED blog post) about the world not being as globalised[...]
Web Video, Global Innovation, and Free SoftwareWeb Video, Global Innovation, and Free Software
Web Video and Global Innovation Chris Anderson (the curator of TED) gave an insightful TED talk about Web Video and Global Innovation [1]. Probably most people who have used the[...]
Pre-Meeting Lightning TalksPre-Meeting Lightning Talks
This evening I arrived at the LUV [1] meeting half an hour before it started. I was one of about a dozen people sitting in the room waiting, some of[...]
Creating a Micro ConferenceCreating a Micro Conference
The TEDxVolcano The TED conference franchise has been extended to TEDxVolcano [1], this is a small conference that features people who are stranded by the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. As[...]
Respecting the AudienceRespecting the Audience
Currently there is an ongoing debate about a joke that was made during a lecture about free software. I have previously written about why I think it’s inappropriate with regard[...]