[SGVLUG] Soliciting speakers for February and beyond

[Lan Dang]

During the meeting, there was a gentleman in the back of the room who asked how one coordinates speakers for SGVLUG.  I think Braddock was trying to coordinate it using a Google doc. We could probably add a section the SGVLUG website to list upcoming meetings and note whether there is a speaker or not.


AFAIK, here is the line up for the rest of 2013:

Feb 7 - Lan Dang  on SGVLUG website and vim tips roundtable

Mar 8 - Steven Doran on DDWRT
Apr 11 - OPEN
May 9 - OPEN
Jun 13 - OPEN
Jul 11 - OPEN
Aug 8 - OPEN
Sep 12 - OPEN
Oct 10 - OPEN
Nov 14 - OPEN
Dec 12 - OPEN


Again, I strongly encourage people to get up and give a 5 or 10 minute talk 
about some cool tool they use, or something they learned recently.  You 
may think it is such a simple thing that -everyone- must know about it, 
but you would be wrong.  I was unreasonably excited to learn about 
setfacl and getfacl at work today because there were many times when I 
had wanted to modify file permissions for a small set of users, but 
thought my only option was to use groups. 


I had intended on doing a brief walkthrough of how to edit  the 
SGVLUG website, which is hosted on github and powered by Octopress.    I am hoping to use my new sdf.org account to do this.  

I think I'd also like to give a small talk about vi/vim, some of my favorite commands, and the new ones I'm trying to internalize.    I hope that people can speak up to share the commands they find useful, and we can all expand our repertoires.

I can share a vim tip right now that will prove quite useful to certain people.  (I have heard complaints relating to this two or three times.)  If you want to paste text into vim and you don't want any auto-formatting to be done to it--like autoindent--you need to use paste mode, which you access through command mode using


:set paste
Go into insert mode and paste your text.


When you're done,  go back to command mode and type:
:set nopaste


When you're in paste mode, INSERT (paste) appears at the bottom of your screen.

Lan
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