Nixers.net Conf 2021
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venam Online | 26-09-2021, 08:15 AM | #1
Hello nixers,
I'd like to announce the second edition of the nixers.net conf.
We will host the conference on Sunday the 7th of November between 2-4pm UTC depending on the number of talks.
Schedule:
- Creating your own troff macros — seninha
Description: What is a troff macro package, how it works and how to write your own (Notes & Slides) - Keeping track of your things — venam (Notes, yt)
Description: The extended mind, a review of a 6 years old thread and discussion of the topic. - Truly Federated Identity for the web — push-f
Description: How the open source community could become more independent from megacorporations.
Last year's conference
freem Offline | 26-09-2021, 01:31 PM | #2
All won't stick in 15 min though, and attendees will have to suffer my french accent one more time. Also, I'm not really skilled on those, so I will only give introductions, the topic is yet to decide.
movq Offline | 27-09-2021, 12:08 PM | #3
TheAnachron Offline | 04-10-2021, 06:44 AM | #4
Things I could imagine talking about in the future:
- Writing shell-scripts that are easy to use & extend
- Automation with shell-scripts
- Folder and File management on multiple computers + backups
- a $SHELL setup that hides information unless it's needed
tls Offline | 07-10-2021, 03:37 AM | #5
freem Offline | 09-10-2021, 04:54 AM | #6
seninha Offline | 14-10-2021, 10:44 PM | #7
It's the end of the semester on uni, so there are a lot of things that accumulated...
I hope to have more time next week, so I can prepare a presentation on troff.
In any case, I'll update this post to inform whether I will or not do that presentation.
eye Offline | 24-10-2021, 11:38 AM | #8
seninha Offline | 25-10-2021, 12:50 AM | #9
I just hope you can understand my English with Portuguese accent...
If we're not going to have the conf because of few presentation proposals, I have prepared an article for the webzine about the macro package I created.
A scrot of the production of the slides with the troff code on the right just to scare you about how troff looks like!
venam Online | 27-10-2021, 02:47 PM | #10
There are still two places to fill for the conf to be fully operational.
Please share your talk proposals as soon as you can 😁
venam Online | 30-10-2021, 10:56 AM | #11
seninha Offline | 06-11-2021, 10:17 PM | #12
I'll be at IRC, so you can call me for testing stuff.
venam Online | 07-11-2021, 04:16 AM | #13
Certainly, I'll be there around 1h before so that we can test things on the platform.(06-11-2021, 10:17 PM)seninha Wrote: Will we have some time before the conf for the people who will talk to test their browsers and mics?
venam Online | 07-11-2021, 10:53 AM | #14
seninha Offline | 07-11-2021, 05:12 PM | #15
Here is a Lorem Ipsum written using the macros in that macro package. It's actually the first few paragraphs of the first chapter of The C Programming Language book, by K&R. As I do not covered fonts in the talk, the pdf has no embedded font, so it can look either good or ugly depending on the default font of your pdf reader (or browser, or anything you use to read pdfs).
Here is source code for that document.
The command I used to generate the sample document is the following. I used Heirloom troff (but was also tested on plan9 troff) and no pre-processor, but two post-processors: dpost (to convert troff's device-independent format to postscript), and ps2pdf to convert postscript to pdf (I also set the papersize to A4).
troff tmac sample.roff | dpost | ps2pdf "-sPAPERSIZE=a4" - sample.pdf
venam Online | 08-11-2021, 05:35 AM | #16
venam Online | 08-11-2021, 05:38 AM | #17
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