[NCLUG] Speakers for 2007/2008?

[Sean Reifschneider]

It's getting time to start looking for more speakers for the NCLUG
meetings.  Let me ask a few questions:

   Does anyone have anything they'd like to speak on, or know someone they
   think would be good to speak to NCLUG?  Any sort of a technical
   presentation related to Linux specifically or computing in general would
   probably go over well.

   Are there any presenters in particular we should invite back?

   What do people think of the periodic "lightning talks" sort of evenings
   we have periodically?  These are scheduled around twice a year with the
   intention to give people 5 or 10 minutes to talk about what they're
   doing.  Do you like watching them?  Would you like to talk about
   something you've done at one of them?

That said, anyone have any comments on the selection of speakers we've had?

Previously, when I asked, Evelyn threw out these suggestions.  I'd like to
re-visit them:

>Virtualization - it seems like the technology is changing quickly and
>becoming more widely deployed. I'd especially like to hear about using
>virtualization in a non-data-center environment, or 'how do I get rid of 3
>servers in my basement?'

The landscape has changed a bit since I last presented on this.  However,
I'm pretty Xen and VMWare centric these days, and almost all of it in the
data-center.  It would be nice if we could have someone with some
practical experience with OpenVZ or similar.

>Security - what's changed on the threat scene? what is good security
>practice?

This might be something that Kevin could address in a future talk.  Anyone
else have a candidate around here to give a talk like this?

>Massive Multiplayer Games 

I really don't know of anyone doing this sort of thing around here under
Linux.  Any ideas?

Sean
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