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

Allan Cecil ac at sonic.net
Tue May 12 09:45:33 PDT 2015


After reviewing the responses I received by E-Mail and over IRC, I've opted to go with #1 - OpenStack Demo.  I'll send out an announcement shortly.

See you tonight at 7:30,

A.C.
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On 05/11/2015 11:10 AM, Allan Cecil wrote:
> 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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