[Bloat] Proposal to Speak at LinuxCon North America 2012/CloudOpen 2012

[David Collier-Brown]

dave taht wrote:
>  I have an idea for one heck of a talk. "Beating the Bloat"
> Unfortunately there's too much on my mind (still) to come up with a
> summary of everything I could talk about in an hour. But I'd go into the
> history of this project... the amazing volunteer-ism, the structural and
> funding problems, the failures, the successes, and where we'd like to go
> from here. In the proposed title above I'm referring to "Bloat" in a
> more general sense, of the enormous disconnects and latencies between
> academia, government, industry, the ietf, the open source communities,
> etc... I know how passionately I feel about everything that happened and
> continues to happen, and how I'd like to structure things so that in the
> future we can better respond to potential internet emergencies. I have
> some fire in my belly on this (if, at the moment, ENOENERGY) I have to
> sit down and write up a lot of the last 16 months anyway, just to get it
> out of my mind. But first up would be structuring what people outside
> the project would "get", and truly "hear". As I've relied on you all as
> a wonderful set of brain amplifiers, I'm interested both in what you'd
> like to hear, and in what this audience could 'hear', as I write up an
> outline and a summary for submittal before friday's deadline.

That's a wonderful idea!

The things I'd like most to hear are
- how to know you've got it
- how to fix your part of the picture
- how to tell how well everyone else is doing

--dave


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