[NTLUG:Discuss] Presentation Ideas

[fredjame]

It all sounds good to me.

David White wrote:

>Hi Everyone,
>
>I'm fairly new to NTLUG, and I thought I'd start by introducing myself - my
>name is David White, and I've recently moved to the DFW area from Australia.
>
>I'm the lead developer of a popular Free game: Battle for Wesnoth
>(http://www.wesnoth.org). Chris has been kind enough to let me give a
>presentation about Battle for Wesnoth and Linux gaming in general at NTLUG
>in June.
>
>In preparing for this presentation, I've realized that there are a number of
>topics which I could present on, but I'm not sure how much interest there
>would be in each of them.
>
>I've made a list of some of the topics I'm looking at touching on at the
>meeting. It'd be great if I could get some feedback on what people think
>would and wouldn't be appropriate for the group.
>
>The topics I've thought of are as follows:
>
>- Demonstration of the Battle for Wesnoth game, what it is, how it works,
>basic overview of the game rules.
>- Demonstration of the configurability of Wesnoth through its 'Wesnoth
>Markup Language' (WML) configuration files
>- Overview of the state of Free/Open Source gaming on Linux. Brief
>description of major games.
>- Important Open Source development philosophies: Keep It Simple, Stupid
>(KISS), and It Is Ready When It's Ready (IIRWIR). Why it is important for
>software projects to stick to these principles.
>- Overview of CVS: what it is, how it works, basic commands.
>- Explanation about Savannah (http://savannah.gnu.org) - what it is, how it
>works.
>- Discussion of C++ and the tools available for C++ developers on Linux
>- Discussion of how users have contributed to Wesnoth, leading into
>discussion on how users can contribute to any Open Source project, and how
>non-programmers as well as programmers can contribute.
>- Discussion of the operation of a typical open source project -- 
>distributed development, communication through email/forums etc.
>
>Cheers,
>
>David
>
>
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