[chiglug] Planning meeting topics - a series of talks

[Jim Campbell]

Hi All,

At the end of our last meeting, we discussing having a series of
meetings themed as a, "Kernel Subsystem Amateur Hour," where we'd have a
series of presentations centered around each of the different kernel
subsystems. And while I like the overall idea, I think that we might be
asking too much of people with such a deep-dive kind of topic (at least
for now).

I think the overall idea of having a series of presentations that build
on each other from month to month is a good one, though. So, instead of
having stand-alone presentations on Docker then MediaGoblin then
Graphite (i.e., unrelated topics), we could have a series of talks on a
certain topic from month to month.  A series on containers could cover
docker, rkt, lxd, systemd-nspawn, etc. A series on systemd could cover
hostnamed, timedated, localed, logind, machined, importd, resolved, etc.
With such a series format, we could get a fuller understanding of each
of the tools.

Of course, it would be boring to have all presentations be about systemd
(or whatever topic), so we could split it up - one presentation at a
meeting could follow the series-specific topic, and another could be our
regular, "Oh, hey - I want to talk about this!" topic.

Does this sound like a good approach? If you think this would work, what
are some types of "series" talks that you might want to see (e.g.,
containers, virtualization, storage, etc.)?

Best,

Jim