Ubuntu Talk

// August 29th, 2006 // Free Software

On October 31, I’m giving a talk at our local Linux Users’ Group on Ubuntu and its derivatives.

I thought of having an outline similar to the following:

  • Start with the history of Ubuntu – What, where, how and when
  • Discuss the services around it, launchpad, the Ubuntu community (fridge, planet, IRC, etc.)
  • Discuss how Kubuntu was born, and how it developed into a flagship KDE distribution
  • Discuss Edubuntu, how it is used to deliver education in a classroom at a low cost
  • Discuss Xubuntu, a completely community driven effort
  • Discuss how the distributions share a common base, and how the distributions benefit from launchpad and its services, as well as the different repository components (main, restricted, universe, multiverse, dapper-commercial, etc)
  • Discuss Ubuntu’s relationship with Debian, and downstream distributions such as Mepis, Guadalinex, etc.

If there’s any existing presentations I could incorporate, please let me know. I will be using the Ubuntu template included with OpenOffice.org in Ubuntu for this talk. The above points were just off the top of my head, if you can suggest more things I can talk about, please do. Any suggestions are welcome. I will post the slides to the talk about two weeks before the talk, to ensure that it is smoothed out by October 31st.

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3 Responses to “Ubuntu Talk”

  1. Nico Veenkamp says:
    29 August 2006 at 19:53

    Hi Jonathan, are you aware of this page on the Ubuntu Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Presentations.

  2. Dominic White says:
    29 August 2006 at 20:59

    Anything like this happening in Jozi sometime soon?

  3. jonathan says:
    30 August 2006 at 08:10

    Thanks Nico, that will be very helpful, I’ll add my presentation there when it’s ready.

    Dominic- I’m not sure how active GLUG < http://www.glug.org.za> is these days, and whether they are still doing talks, perhaps we could get someone to give a similar talk there? September 16th is Software Freedom Day, which might provide a good opportunity for someone to give this talk. I suggest you check the local events there, perhaps we could get someone from ImpiLinux to give the talk.

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