We are planning to have minitalks during weekly meetings. A minitalk is a short talk (perhaps 5-20 minutes long) about some topic. This could be an introduction to an interesting program, programming language, technology, etc.. Part of the aim of having minitalks is to promote discussion, as well as to provide a reason for people to come to meetings.

Planned minitalks

/Ubiquity, 2008-11-26 (AndrewWalbran)
/LilyPond, postponed (JessicaCampbell)
/HowTheInternetWorks (DonaldGordon)
/IopenCd (DavidHall)

If you are interested in giving a minitalk, please add to the list.

Possible minitalks

/gdb
/LaTeX : WTF is Latex? Why? Beginning (JoelWPauling)
/SDL (FelixShi)
/IntroToGit (AndrewWalbran)
/IPv6 (AndrewWalbran)

If you are interested in hearing one of these, please note your interest and talk to the person listed.

Suggestions for minitalks

darcs
- AndrewWalbran is interested

If you have an idea for a minitalk you would like to hear, please add it here.

Please also note if you are interested in any of the proposed talks.

Past minitalks

/2009ImagineCup
/OneLaptopPerChild, Wednesday 23rd July 2008 (MartinLanghoff)
/Emacs, Wednesday 16th July 2008 (AndrewChilds)
/LinuxACLs, 28th May 2008: How to enable and use ACLs for file permissions under Linux (AndrewWalbran)
Zotero, ??? (JoelPauling)
/RevisionControlSystems, Wednesday 12th March 2008 (TimothyGoddard)
/Virtualisation, Wednesday 25th July 2007 (TimothyGoddard)
/MicroFormats, Wednesday 18th July 2007 (AndrewWalbran)
/ProgrammingLanguageResearch at Vic, Wednesday 11th July 2007 (StephenNelson)