Carl is right -- there is a wide range of interests, so no topic is too off-the-wall (within reason, of course). So yeah, go for it.
It took me a few years to get the nerve to present. Now you can't shut me up :-) BTW -- are we going to see some LFNW folks at SCALE 12X this weekend? Ping me off list or stop in at the media/speaker room at Catalina C to say hello. Larry Cafiero / Publicity Chair / SCALE 12X (and regular attendee/booth denizen/sometimes speaker at LFNW) On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Carl Symons <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/18/2014 08:40 PM, John Holbrook wrote: >> >> Just looking for a little feedback. This will be my 10th year attending >> LFNW and I was thinking I should do a presentation. > > > 'bout time B^) > > > >> >> Would anybody be interested in seeing a presentation on something like >> Security Onion?? >> >> http://blog.securityonion.net/ >> >> "Security Onion is a Linux distro for intrusion detection, network >> security monitoring, and log management. It's based on Ubuntu and >> contains Snort, Suricata, Bro, OSSEC, Sguil, Squert, Snorby, ELSA, >> Xplico, NetworkMiner, and many other security tools. The easy-to-use >> Setup wizard allows you to build an army of distributed sensors for your >> enterprise in minutes!" >> > > A couple of surprising things to me about LFNW presentations: > 1. People are interested in really off the wall topics > 2. It doesn't matter how much interest there is. > > Audiences range in size, often depending on how well known/how well > respected the speaker is. Monty Widenius filled the big room talking about > MariaDB (and MySQL). Most of the audience participation came from 1 person > who wanted to argue about PostgreSQL. > > With an audience of a few people, a presentation can become an open > discussion. In some cases, those small sessions have turned into interesting > projects. > > Go for it! > > Carl > > _______________________________________________ > Fest-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fest-list _______________________________________________ Fest-list mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fest-list
