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SLUG meetings and talks

As well as other events, SLUG typically holds regular meetings on the last Friday of each month. Our meetings are held at Google Sydney.We have a map of the area and directions for taking public transport.

You will need to sign-in to enter the venue. This can be performed when you arrive, but to save time we recommend that you do so at the Anyvite link provided in the meeting announcement. If you are unsure, please sign up as a 'maybe'. This allows us to organise adequate catering, meeting space and facilities. You do not need to create an account to indicate your attendance.

We normally send out an announcement a week or two before each meeting. To receive these notifications, you can subscribe to our low-traffic announcements mailing list, RSS feed or ical calendar feed.

These meetings present talks on various topics, aimed at both experienced and new Linux users.

If you're interested in speaking to SLUG, please see our Call for Participation.

Details of our next meeting:

December SLUG social gathering

2009-12-12 13:00
2009-12-12 18:00
Etc/GMT+11
Pyrmont Point Park, Pyrmont
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Meeting Format

SLUG meetings follow a standard meeting format with a common first half, and then dividing after the break. This is to provide two streams of content catering to both new and experienced Linux users.

The standard meeting agenda is:

18:15: Doors Open
18:30: Announcements, News, Introductions
Introduction to SLUG, Q&A, "What has Linux done for/to me lately?", SLUG News & Discussion
18:45: General Interest talk
The General Interest talks are designed to be of an intermediate level. Previous topics have included:
  • SLUG Forum: "Package Management Systems comparison"
  • Conrad Parker: Sweep
  • Adrian van den Dries: Zope
19:30: Break/Intermission
Refreshments available in the foyer. We request that you make a gold coin donation to cover our expenses.
19:45: Split into two groups for:
8:30pm: Dinner

Call For Participation

SLUG's monthly meeting features several talks of varying length.

We're always looking for new talk offers, and talk offers should be sent to activities@slug.org.au and CCed to committee@slug.org.au. If you're not a member of the Activities list, just send it to the Committee. We also suggest that you post your suggestion on our Wiki. You will need to supply us with the following information:

  • a title of the talk
  • an abstract/summary of the talk to put in our announcement (a few sentences or a paragraph is fine)
  • whether the talk is intended to be a General Talk, an In-Depth Talk or a SLUGlet (see below for explanations on what these are)
  • at which meeting(s) you are available to deliver your talk

Don't worry if you can't immediately supply these. We can help you through it. We recommend that you use the SLUG Activities list to discuss your content with the community to maximise its relevance and quality.

SLUG talks can be on any topics that would loosely come under the heading of "Open Source Software" or "Free Software". We're open to talks about software, about projects, about features, about tools, and about the Open Source and Free Software movements, and issues surrounding them.

Our membership are primarily hobbyists and professionals, however our meetings are open to the public.

Giving a talk at SLUG would be an excellent way to prepare for more formal speaking situations

Past SLUG Talks

With speaker permission, SLUG records video footage of the talks given at meetings, and other events. The slides and video footage are available under the Creative Commons ShareAlike License unless otherwise noted.

If you're interested in speaking to SLUG, please see our Call for Participation.

If a talk that you'd like to see isn't online yet, or if you gave a talk but we don't have the slides, please contact the committee.

Details of previous talks can be found in the archived meeting announcements here and in the announces mailing list archives.

SLUG Speakers Guide

This guide is