[SGVLUG] Potential meeting topic: ¨Linux OS Bake-off¨

[Miguel Hernandez]

Tom´s thread about the upcoming release of OpenSUSE got me thinking, though,
about a ¨Linux OS Bake-off¨ as a potential topic for one of our upcoming
meetings. Having not been involved long enough, I´m not sure if the group
has had one recently or how well they´re received/attended.

I did think of a twist to the typical bake-off, though. What about
individual folks coming up for 5-10 mins. to discuss what features they
really like in their OS of choice? Specifically cool, would be features that
you tell your friends about when trying to convert them over to Linux- ease
of use, accessibility, media-ready, pre-installed apps, why you use it as
your dev. environment, etc.

Cool distros that might get discussed:
Ubuntu <insert flavor here>
OpenSUSE
Debian
Fedora
Sabayon Linux
gOS
OpenGEU
<the last 3 are distros that imho are absolutely gorgeous right out the box,
especially OpenGEU which uses the uber (yet system heavy) Enlightenment DR17
window mgr>

I figured the twist would be a good way to get more folks involved. For me
personally, I don´t think I could I could give a 2-hour talk, but 5-10mins
isn´t bad. I figure there´s a slew of folks who are similar.
Thinking further down the line, it´s something we could all build on or even
take the main points from everyone´s quick presentation & turn it into
something we could share with other groups we´re a part of (ie. a BarCamp
presentation or a BoF at a more traditional conf).
Who knows, maybe putting those results up on the main SGVLUG page would
garner more attention & hopefully even more folks at our meetings. :)


Just some thoughts. I hope I´m not overstepping any boundaries or making
more work for all of our admins.

--miguel
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