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# Presentations

Every **1st Saturday** of the month from **3:30 PM EAT** @nairobilug hosts a Meetup with presentations. This document seeks to guide a speaker by giving them the necessary resources they need if they want to contribute a presentations.
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nitpick: we could format this to 80 chars per line.

Video recordings of previous meetups are in a [YouTube Playlist](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWYgxwb8YFV1OS4_kWef90dYJvm730x0I) and text based write-ups are in a [GitHub Repo](https://github.com/nairobilug/presentations).

## Step One
Have a relevant **Linux** topic you want to discuss about.
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we could just have this as have a topic you want to discuss about. This leaves the door open to a lot more interesting conversations.

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The repo contains the presentation slides


**N.B** Look out for duplicates from previous presentations. Maybe you want to build on top of previous submissions.

## Step Two
Announce your interest to the group by atleast the Tuesday leading to the presentation day (Saturday).

## Step Three
Video setup .....
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When I presented (live presentation) we used obsstudio to record my screen, so I had to set this up.

For virtual presentations, we pre-record the presentations and present them somehow in jitsi. @BonfaceKilz could add comments on challenges he had last time with this.

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I wasn't able to figure out how to stream my video content to jitsi. It's straightforward to do from YouTube but AFAICT streaming a pre-recorded video from your local hard drive is convoluted.


## Step Four
Write-Up Formats and Template located @ https://github.com/nairobilug/presentations ......
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I really like the format in the go presentations. See https://github.com/kmwenja/ssh-tunneling-talk for an example

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HTML slides in a static website are also convenient. One can use audio only, and participants can change the slides themselves to reduce network bandwidth requirements.


## Important Contacts
- Raymond Wanyoike (RayWan)
- Jason Rogena
- Canine Mwenja (rookie101)
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these are different people :D

- Boniface Munyoki (BonifaceKilz)

### To-DO/ Discuss
- Code of Conduct for group
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check here for the code of conduct suggested: nairobilug/nairobilug.or.ke#183

- Suitable template and formats for write-ups
- Standard/Best practice for recording of videos