<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Tai!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have the feeling that you and have both I previously worked for that same CV processing company. Regarding a talk, I would be interested to learn about machine learning techniques used in processing natural language, if that’s something you picked up during your job. I know the names of a few people who were on the R&D team a couple of years back. All that stuff runs on Linux servers, and from what I have seen it is far more performant than the Python NLTK.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For further talks, Anand proposed I do a talk about Go programming language a while back. I would be happy to talk about GoLang, but I would like to release the second version of my fractal renderer first. I am working on some algorithms right now, and I would feel better talking about the language when I have something really stable and cool for you folks to play with.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers</div><div class="">Johnny</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 23 Jan 2016, at 18:24, Edinburgh Linux Users Group <<a href="mailto:edlug@lists.edlug.org.uk" class="">edlug@lists.edlug.org.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hello everybody!<br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For the upcoming February meeting (and March if I'm still sans outside speaker), I thought I would put my foot in it a bit.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(If you have some software you really think you would like the world to use more, by all means - tell me, and I'll book you in.... ! :-D )<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I propose to do a talk myself, but am in a conundrum as to what to choose. So I would like you to to give me a weathervane's view of the consensus.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://doodle.com/poll/zmxfmuaur98trn5x" class="">http://doodle.com/poll/zmxfmuaur98trn5x</a><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please indicate which talk you think I should start with. I propose one of three:<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">=== Introduction to Linux (laptops and desktops) ===<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I present this as a Linux enthusiast, and one who has converted a few users over the past couple of years.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would go over a lightning history of Linux for newbies, distros, desktop environments, VirtualBox usage, installation of Xubuntu and round it out with Free Software discussion, LibreOffice, Ogg (with Vorbis and Theora) and a quick demo of Trisquel installation.<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">=== Software and CVs ===<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I worked at a company that produces CV-processing software for extracting information from natural language. My role was integrating it with customer candidate databases.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would go over what a technician's CV should look like for best reading both by recruiters and by software; and hope to get a recruiter friend on board to cover the recruiter's point of view. (might get pushed to March if sufficient interest, to be able to onboard both a recuirter and potentially a person from this company. No promises.)<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">=== Tech Support As A Career (TSaaC??) ===<br class="">--- and where go from there ---<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Some tech support jobs are more equal than others - and more prestigious.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I built my career accidentally around tech support and through it have been able to experience a wide variety of technology, made friends with very intelligent people and all-in-all, continue to have a great time!<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would talk about the different types of tech support outfits; my (very personal) perception of pay scales; which types offer good prospects of progression to development and engineering; and what you can expect from a career in Tech Support.<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I intended to do each of these talks at some point this year, to fill in gaps where I have not found persons to speak, after a long run of socials.<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Vote with your mice (mouses??) and let me know before the month is over!<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yours openly,<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tai<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><br class="">===<br class="">Tai Kedzierski<br class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span class=""></span><font size="1" class=""><img src="http://www.free-mac-programs.com/images/applications/libreoffice.png" height="19" width="19" class=""> I use <a href="http://www.libreoffice.org/" target="_blank" class="">www.libreoffice.org</a><br class=""><br class=""><i class="">Open Source Free Software is a matter of liberty, not price.</i><br class="">
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