On 30 January 2017 at 20:48, Max Yermakhanov via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

Hello,

I run Toronto Enterprise DevOps user group and I'm looking for someone to present on Linux basics on April 13th in Toronto. Would you know anyone who might be interested?

No doubt there are people who could do this. When I have done presentations for groups I did not know well, with the potential for broad, open-ended topics, as is certainly the case here, the approach I have taken has been to solicit questions in advance. That seems likely to be helpful here. "Basics" could mean any number of things. If there is a mailing list or forum, it should be very useful to encourage producing a list of a dozen or so questions. If those questions suggest a systematic "syllabus", that's great. Even if they don't, then for the presenter to come in prepared with 12 answers for 12 questions should mean that 12 attendees get direct answers to questions that they had, and that will be of direct and indirect benefit. -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"