GNU recutils presentation
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I have been preparing for a presentation about the GNU recutils.
This is a presentation at the Dutch Linux User Group, called
`NLLGG'.
NLLGG: Dutch Linux User Group
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The NLLGG holds meetings on Saturdays, once every two months, except
during the summer, for a total of five each year. The general format
for the meetings is two parallel tracks, with three presentations per
track.
My presentation is scheduled right at the start of the track, just
before lunch. We'll have to see how many people will attend.
GNU recutils
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GNU Recutils is a set of tools and libraries to access human-editable,
plain text databases called recfiles.
Together, the GNU recutils provide the normal CRUD database operations.
Recfiles are just plain text. They can be created and edited with any
text editor. Any version control system is fine. The option to see
changes in your database as diffs is wonderful.
Slides
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As usual, I create my slides with Groff, using the mom macros.
In the past, I used an awk-script and a Makefile, to convert a
org-file on the fly to a PDF-file, using pdfmom.
Preparing slides is much less fun than coding, so during the last days
I made an Elisp script for the org-mode to mom-file conversion :)
Love of plain text
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In my opinion, this presentation is a great opportunity to express the
love of plain text.
I hope it will inspire a few people to do more with plain text :)
