[NBLUG/talk] Talk for May 12th General Meeting

[Glenn Kerbein]

I like #2 as well.


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<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Allan Cecil <ac at sonic.net> </div><div>Date:05/11/2015  11:10 AM  (GMT-08:00) </div><div>To: "General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to questions, etc." <talk at nblug.org> </div><div>Cc:  </div><div>Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Talk for May 12th General Meeting </div><div>
</div>I haven't received a single suggestion so I'm narrowing the choices of what we can do for tomorrow night's meeting.  Please reply with your preference:

#1 - I can present an OpenStack overview (OpenStack is a way of running an Amazon EC2-like "cloud" on your own servers, complete with block storage, authentication, and high availability)

#2 - I can present on Gaming in Linux as of May 2015 - There will be some major changes toward the end of the year but there's still plenty I could show off for SteamOS and other multimedia updates on Linux

#3 - We can do another lightning talks meeting and I'll volunteer to present one or two of the smaller subjects on my list, such as serial hackery or out-of-band management

Thoughts?

A.C.
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President, NBLUG

On 05/08/2015 12:32 PM, Allan Cecil wrote:
> Greetings, members!
> 
> I had discussed with the board that we did not have a speaker for May and that I would be sending out an E-Mail to solicit the talk list for speakers, but then I had a lead on an outside speaker to give a talk.  That lead fell through, so now we're back to not having a speaker for this upcoming Tuesday and there's not a lot of time left.
> 
> So, do you have a talk you would like to give, or do you know of someone who might like to present?  If no one steps up, are any of the following topics I might be able to present on of interest?  These can (preferably :) be for future months if someone else is able to present this month.
> 
>  - Configuring OpenWRT on a home router with USB attached NFS storage
>  - Serial usage in Linux devices in 2015 - why it's still hanging on and some nifty tricks for working with it
>  - Out-of-band management options for Linux systems - IPMI / ipmitool, OpenBMC, and other alternatives on the horizon
>  - Raspberry Pi 2 model B running OpenBMC (derived from Kodi, formerly known as XBMC)
>  - Using a pfSense firewall on an ADI Engineering RCC-VE small-formfactor x86 device, touching on Network Function Virtualization and services isolation
>  - Current state of Linux VPS hosting (OpenVZ vs. KVM, providers, precautions, etc.)
>  - OpenStack overview - what it is, what it's good for, and where it's going
>  - Gaming in Linux 2015 - an update on the current status of SteamOS and other platforms
> 
> Some of these topics deserve more than a weekend's rushed preparation for a talk and some of them might be better later in the year (especially Gaming in Linux which would be better in the November-December timeframe to coincide with the release of SteamOS boxes) but I figured I'd throw out the whole list of things I could present on to see what people are most interested in.  Thoughts?
> 
> A.C.
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