On 5/23/06, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote: > > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 02:53:22PM -0400, Jeremy Mcnicoll wrote: > > I am cross posting this on purpose, because I want as much feedback / > ideas > > as I can get. > > > > I am doing a presentation to a local LUG that I am a regular member and > > contributor (http://www.oclug.on.ca). The topic for this month (June > 6/06) > > is you guessed it the N770, by guess who. ME! > > > > So what I was hoping for is input from you guys. What sorts of things > would > > people out there recomend that I talk about? > > > > Right now the talk is planned to cover the following: > > -High level view of what the device is. > > -Developement environement > > -overall description of what the device is, and how it functions > > -What applications are available. > > -Simple demo. > > It seems to me that applications and demo are the most interesting part. > > A couple of interesting applications you could show: > > - FBReader for e-books (get free (legal) ebooks from > http://www.baen.com/library/) Great thanks. I never knew about this place. I should try it out. - Maemo Mapper (optionally with a bluetooth GPS, which of course won't > work indoors) I have been looking to get a bluetooth gps, but I have not been able to find one yet. Any suggestions? > This has to be about an hour in length and there is a range of backgrounds > > attending. Though most of them are hard core geeks. ;-) > > Hard core geeks you say? How about showing an SSH server on the device, > or demoing the mounting of NFS shares. Or how vim works with the > on-screen keyboard in an xterm. Or how to repackage a debian package > from the Debian ARM port so that it is installable with the Application > Installer. All great ideas. Thanks again. I will add it in. As well I will post my slides so everyone especially you ;-) can benefit from them. Cheers, > Marius Gedminas > -- > Give a man a computer program and you give him a headache, but teach him > to > program computers and you give him the power to create headaches for > others for > the rest of his life... > -- R. B. Forest > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFEcxPakVdEXeem148RAvXoAJ40HjAHVyKJ/yAtEdH3vDT31J2kfgCdF+aT > sQCcMZVDFsKoz5X9FxjqysM= > =o4eO > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20060523/602f73e8/attachment.htm
