OCLUG Presentation Policy
This page's purpose is to capture OCLUG's policy on criteria for presentations.
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1. Presentations being used by businesses in a commercial fashion
Comments:
- Personally, I'm against OCLUG being used in this fashion. Presenting say, a GPL'd component of a commercial product is fine with me, but in general, I don't want to come to meetings to talk to some marketting guy. --MichaelSoulier
- I think we have to use our discretion. If some company wants to show us their thing that, yes, does happen to run on Linux and seems to want to make a salespitch to a captive audience (viz. Tarantella), then I think we should turn that company down. On the other hand, if a company is clueful and enthusiastic about Linux, are prepared to make a thorough presentation on the use and the internals of their thing, to answer a lot of questions -- then we should consider it. --DaveEdwards
2. Presentations open to the public but containing highly-technical content
Comments
- OCLUG talks may need to be divided into beginner/advanced halves, with the public invited to the beginner half but welcome to stay for the advanced half. If you host an open talk in a public library, most (but not necessarily all) of the content of the talk should be something that the invited public can understand. If the meetings are seen as a means of Open Source and Linux advocacy, they have to be something that non-technical and non-Linux people can appreciate. Public relations are not served by having interested people who know little about Linux subjected to a talk on kernel internals. We need two kinds of talks. - IanAllen
