[volunteers] March Speakers?

[kevin dankwardt]

I am confirming Sven-Thorson Dietrich for March 1st.

"Topic "Enterprise Networking with vRouter: R&D and Performance of the
Vyatta DPDK Architecture”

It will be technical and not a sales pitch - I’ll get an abstract together
after chatting with Becca a little more."

Colleague is Becca Nitzen.

I will update the Meetup page when I get the details.

I will ask Abhijit Paithankar for April meeting.

-kevin

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 7:27 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Kevin Dankwardt (kevin.dankwardt at gmail.com):
>
> > Speakers that are interested:
>
> If you can get Dietrich and Paithankar to _both_ schedule for 2017
> dates, IMO you should take that and count yourself lucky.  You will find
> (IMO) that having a line-up a few months out makes everything easier.
>
> In my experience, getting a speaker to commit to a date _under_ two
> weeks away is difficult indeed.  Oddly, so is getting them to commit
> _more_ than two months away.
>
> If possible, it's extremely valuable to store up a few speaker/topic
> possibilities 'in your pocket' to pull out as necessary to fill openings
> on short notice, either because you just couldn't find anyone or a
> speaker cancelled.  Those are like gold (especially because of the
> 'under two weeks' problem mentioned above).
>
> I'll add notes about Dietrich and Paithankar's possible future talks to
> our TBA page, http://www.svlug.org/tba.php , which is linked from the
> meetings page .
>
> And I want to talk about that page, because its whole purpose for
> existence is to serve you and other planners.  If it's not, I need to
> know.
>
>
> What's the deal with our TBA page
> ---------------------------------
>
> I noticed over time that there was a near-total disconnect between
> planners and people coming up with speaker/topic ideas.  The latter
> would _only_ ever post their ideas to Volunteers, or the main mailing
> list, or to webmaster at svlug.org (which gets them forwarded to
> Volunteers).  Later, planners would try to find meeting ideas but
> essentially never look in mailing list archives.  So, communication
> failed.
>
> The idea of tba.php is to collect in _one_ place all credible meeting
> ideas that haven't yet been used.  Also at the bottom of the page are
> suggestions of specific other places to look for speakers/topics.
>
> _Probably_, some of tba.php's entries should be erased.   Some of that I
> can figure out, others require feedback from planners (e.g., you).
>
> For example, the page has several offered topics from Jesse Monroy, but
> he's now (usually) in West Texas (where he now lives), and the
> likelihood of his giving those talks is now low.  I should _probably_
> just remove those -- or at least edit them to say these are ideas some
> other speaker would need to run with, as Jesse's almost never around.
>
> I've just checked tba.php against http://www.svlug.org/prevmeet.php,
> looking for already-used ideas.
>
> o  Speaker = 'Owen DeLong', topic = 'Migrating applications from IPv4 to
>    IPv6' is one we used in May 2010, so I'll remove that (in a few
> minutes).
>
> o  Speaker = "Robert Harker', topic = 'Various sysadmin topics' matches our
>    Dec, 2015 talk about 'Using Jenkins to Automate Building, Testing, and
>    Deployment of New Code', but I'll leave the item present because
> Robert's
>    a good prospect for more sysadmin talks.
>
> o  Speaker = 'Kyle Rankin', topic = 'Introduction to Forensics, other
> topics'
>    matches his three talks for us in 2005, 2008, and 2009 --- but again
>    Rankin's an excellent speaker if/when available.
>
> o  Aniruddh Mulay's idea of 'someone from Hadoop' matches the Nov. 2011
>    Tomer Shiran presentation about 'MapR - the next-generation Hadoop
>    distribution that integrates with Linux', but I figure there's room
>    for another Hadoop talk.
>
> o  Speaker = 'Cricket Liu', topic = 'As a guess: DNS and BIND?' matches
>    (as mentioned) an August 2007 talk about 'Securing Internet Name
> Servers',
>    but he's an absolutely top speaker on any DNS topic, so I'm keeping
> that.
>
> o  Speaker = 'TBA', topic = 'The MKitTM Mobile Linux Development Kit'
>    is no longer possible as stated because that that toolkit is no
>    longer on the market.  _But_ sponsoring firm Unicon Systems
>    is still around (https://www.unicon.net/) and might have other
>    topics -- so I'll edit the entry to say so.
>
>
> So, looks like _one_ 'TBA' idea to remove, the Owen DeLong one.
> (Good.  I've been meaning to do that runthrough for a long time.)
>
> Owen's talk aside, there are _27_ entries on the TBA page!
>
> I _hope_ those would be very useful in lining up talks.  If it's not,
> please suggest anything that might make it more useful.
>
> One limitation is inherent in it being a public Web page;  We're obliged
> to assume that potential speakers' personal contact information (e-mail
> and telephone numbers) may be sensitive.  So, when I created that entry
> for Cricket Liu, I could not include 'And here's a foolproof way to
> reach Cricket...,'  (Cannot recall whether I had that data; the point is
> we must be careful about publishing it if we do.)
>
> If you'd like to contact someone on tba.php _or_ (fabulous idea) a prior
> speaker on http://www.svlug.org/prevmeet.php), ask around.  Someone here
> might know or be able to find out.
>
>
> The last thing to be aware of, about tba.php, is that it grew downwards,
> so basically it's oldest idea to newest.  Arguably, the order is a
> blunder.  (I _could_ invert it.)  Also, the later (lower) entries
> are probably a lot more information-rich than the earlier (higher) ones,
> because I learned.  E.g., the later ones usually include a link to the
> mailing list post that made the suggestion.  (I see that many of those
> got broken when I rebuilt the archive at some point, but think I can
> fix those.)
>
> Please see if you can use
> http://www.svlug.org/tba.php and
> http://www.svlug.org/prevmeet.php as sources for new topics/speakers.
> They're there to help.
>
> Please let me know if I can improve them.
>
>
> And let me know if items need removal from tba.php because, e.g., the
> speaker died or moved to West Texas, or it's a product idea for
> something no longer extant or no longer relevant.
>
>
>
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