On 31 May 2005 at 20:34, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Kern, > > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > Hello Arno, > > > > This is an interesting proposal. I might be interested in giving > > such a presentation if no one else is interested. My concerns are: > > > > - I have never attended such a conference, so it would be very > > difficult to give a presentation not having previously attended to > > know the style and quality they expect. > > Neither do I. Still, I think a presentation of any kind is good if you > achieve what you want, so, you define what quality you want to offer. > Naturally, afterwards others might tell you if you met their > expectations, but still there's no right or wrong there as long as you > achieve what yo want. (Slightly simplified :-)
I think anything you produce will be fine. Take what I used as a starting point. Just talk about Bacula, the philosphy, the components. Oh... I thought it was at http://www.freebsddiary.org/talks/ Ping me and I'll send them to you when I'm at home. > > - It takes quite a long time for me to prepare for such a > > presentation, > > especially one of 40 minutes. I'm wondering if it would justify > > the time taken from programming. > > Well, as Jo already said - I think it might be worth the effort. So far, the world has only seen me (AFAIK) talk about Bacula. Kern, go for it. Next year (2006), we'll get you over here for BSDCan. There's plenty of BSD Bacula users. > > As you can see, I am a bit reluctant to give such a presentation. > > However, I think it would be worth while to attend, if not to give a > > presentation, at least to inform myself for giving one at a future > > conference. > > Well, if you decide you might want to give a presentation I'd be > willing to help preparing or holding it. At the moment, I can't > promise anything, but I'm quite sure I will find the time to go there > and I hope I understand enough of bacula to prepare something. In > fact, I think it would be a good idea if someone else would like to > join - you're definitely the key person concerning baculas > development, I'm definitely more a user than a developer, but someone > else with a good understanding of baculas source would probably help > to give a better understanding of bacula. Users always love to hear from developers. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users