Nixers.net Conf 2021 - Community & Forums Related Discussions
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![[Image: nixers_conf_2021_poster_white.png]](https://nixers.net/conf/2021/nixers_conf_2021_poster_white.png) 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:
Last year's conference |
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Nothing is prepared yet, but, if the topic of gaming AI is interesting to nixers, I can give a talk on what I worked on to improve unvanquished's AI, which are based on a bunch of technologies, including behavior trees, navmeshes and raytracing.
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. |
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Nice! Pretty sure I’ll be able to attend this time. :-)
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I'm trying to attend this year,- probably won't be a speaker though.
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 |
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Very interesting! I'd like to attend! For me it will be the first time! :-)
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I don't think I'll have much time to prepare anything actually.
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The last weeks have been really busy for me and I had no time to prepare anything.
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. |
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I'll sadly be on holidays that week :( I'll watch the talks afterwards.
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I can confirm my presentation about how to create your own troff macro package!
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! ![[Image: -d6B.png]](https://0x0.st/-d6B.png)
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I've updated the thread with two talks.
There are still two places to fill for the conf to be fully operational. Please share your talk proposals as soon as you can 😁 |
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Still one place left for a talk, if anyone wishes to join as a speaker.
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Will we have some time before the conf for the people who will talk to test their browsers and mics?
I'll be at IRC, so you can call me for testing stuff. |
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The link to the conference has been posted in the first post.
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Here is the, rather simple, troff macro package built during my presentation.
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). Code: troff tmac sample.roff | dpost | ps2pdf "-sPAPERSIZE=a4" - sample.pdfHere are the slides used at the presentation. |
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And here are all the references and links for my talk:
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The talks have been uploaded and linked on the main post.
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