[BBLISA] So what do you consider an interesting topic for a monthly talk?

[Peter Galvin]

Hi All,

Just to offer up more talk topics:
- I could talk about pretty much anything Solaris
- There is a team at Sun Burlington who work on OpenSolaris and I'm fairly
sure they'd give a BBLISA talk if you'd like
- My colleague knows the Sun 7000 (new NAS device) backward and forward and
again I'm fairly sure he'd give a talk if you'd like.

--Peter

Blogs: http://ctistrategy.com http://www.galvin.info


On 2/9/09 5:32 PM, "Dean Anderson" <dean at av8.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, John P. Rouillard wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I received only 5 positive responses to a talk on Configuration
>> Mangement Systems in general and DACS in particular, so obviously
>> there is no sense in presenting a talk on that.
> 
> This is a pretty significant response for a small group like BBlisa.
> 
> Remember, a lot of people will come to whatever or won't.  Some will be
> interested in the topic specifically, or just interested in anything
> admin-related. Some just want to hear a talk and get some beers ;-)
> Don't over think this ;-)
> 
>> So what talks do interest the BBLISA members?
>> 
>>   Designing a good resume to land a job?
> 
> Nah. 
> 
>>   Performance improvement with ITIL, Six Sigma and LEAN?
> 
> Yeah.
> 
>>   Trouble ticketing systems?
> 
> Why not.
> 
>>   Use of wiki's in IT?
> 
> Why not.
> 
>> What topics other than those above do you want?
> 
> These are good. Reference I've heard John speak before, and just about
> anything he gives a talk on will be a good subject.
> 
> I'd like to hear of someone doing nagios-style status reports in
> second-life. I've been thinking about doing that, either in SL or using
> our own OpenSimulator server.  So instead of a nagios web-menu
> navigation system, one just walks around an views pictures on a wall.
> Like a virtual NOC with all kinds of monitors. Or maybe one walks around
> a SL representation of the network, and looks at the virtual routers,
> switches, and machines, which display differently when things are wrong,
> show throughput on dials, emit virtual steam when overloaded, etc. If
> anyone is interested in working on this, let me know...
> 
>> Also is MIT not a good place to hold meetings? Should venuses in other
>> areas, metro-west (waltham/arlington/lexington), south, north be
>> considered to get more people to attend?
> 
> I like MIT. Its convenient to parking and the T, and gives me a reason
> to get to Kendall and visit the coop and mit press bookstores.  And its
> close to a favorite watering hole.
> 
> --Dean