<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div>I like #2 as well.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:9px;color:#575757">Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device</div></div><br><br><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Allan Cecil <ac@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@nblug.org> </div><div>Cc: </div><div>Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Talk for May 12th General Meeting </div><div><br></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:<br><br>#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)<br><br>#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<br><br>#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<br><br>Thoughts?<br><br>A.C.<br>******<br>President, NBLUG<br><br>On 05/08/2015 12:32 PM, Allan Cecil wrote:<br>> Greetings, members!<br>> <br>> 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.<br>> <br>> 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.<br>> <br>> - Configuring OpenWRT on a home router with USB attached NFS storage<br>> - Serial usage in Linux devices in 2015 - why it's still hanging on and some nifty tricks for working with it<br>> - Out-of-band management options for Linux systems - IPMI / ipmitool, OpenBMC, and other alternatives on the horizon<br>> - Raspberry Pi 2 model B running OpenBMC (derived from Kodi, formerly known as XBMC)<br>> - Using a pfSense firewall on an ADI Engineering RCC-VE small-formfactor x86 device, touching on Network Function Virtualization and services isolation<br>> - Current state of Linux VPS hosting (OpenVZ vs. KVM, providers, precautions, etc.)<br>> - OpenStack overview - what it is, what it's good for, and where it's going<br>> - Gaming in Linux 2015 - an update on the current status of SteamOS and other platforms<br>> <br>> 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?<br>> <br>> A.C.<br>> ******<br>> President, NBLUG<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> talk mailing list<br>> talk@nblug.org<br>> http://nblug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk<br>> <br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br>talk@nblug.org<br>http://nblug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk<br></body>