[LRUG] Weather forecast for the February meeting: Lightning

[Jim Myhrberg]

I'd be happy to do a quick intro and overview of Redistat (https://github.com/jimeh/redistat) if anyone is interested. We've successfully been using here it at work for almost two months now collecting somewhere around 4-6 million data points per day.


Readme and documentation should be decent in time for the meetup, rather than it's current almost non-existent form.




-jim




On Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 10:21, Murray Steele wrote:

> The February meeting will be on Monday 7th February.
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> The calendar-obsessed will notice this is not the 2nd Monday, but if you work out the date for the 2nd Monday you'll see why we've moved it. Normal service will resume in March (on the 14th (of March (2011 (as defined by the Gregorian calendar)))).
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> As is now traditional, the February meeting will be our lightning talk evening. For those who haven't been before, or don't remember, we use the 20x20 format for the talks. The 20x20 format is:
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> * You get 20 slides. 
> * They must automatically transition after 20 seconds. 
> * This gives you 6:40 to get your point across.
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> We need at least 6 speakers to make the meeting feel like it's not too short, but we have time for up to 9 (maybe 10) if we minimize faffing on the night by doing all the talks off one laptop.
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> In the pub last night I harangued a bunch of people to do one of these lightning talks and Roland Swingler said on this very list that he'd do one if we told him what we wanted him to talk about. I reckon there are about 5 or 6 "volunteers" already, but we still need more, not least because most of the folk I talked to in the pub will probably blame their enthusiasm on booze or admit that they only agreed to shut me up.
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> Please volunteer!
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> If you've not given a talk before the lightning talks are a great way to dip your toe in. I did it last year and I really enjoyed it; the unforgiving nature of the presentation format actually helped focus me in writing the talk and made me rehearse it to make sure I didn't try to fit too much into each slide. I heartily recommend it.
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> Muz
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> ps. Also suggest something for Roland to talk about.
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