Call for Volunteers: Summaries of a few KVMForum-2020 talks for an LWN article

Call for Volunteers: Summaries of a few KVMForum-2020 talks for an LWN article

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

Hi, folks

Like last year[1], we're aiming to submit a KVM Forum 2020 "recap"
article for LWN.

This won't be a comprehensive summary of a lot of talks — LWN normally
aims for 1500 words; they say "fewer can sometimes work, and more is
generally OK too".  Given that, the write-up can cover about four
topics, similar to previous year's recap.

So I'm looking for a couple of volunteers.  Meanwhile, I'll write LWN
folks an email to see if they're amenable to this.  If they can't accept
it for some reason, Plan-B is qemu.org blog articles.

- KVM Forum 2020 schedule: https://kvmforum2020.sched.com/  
- And LWN.net's author guidelines: https://lwn.net/op/AuthorGuide.lwn

I volunteer to summarize Janosch Frank's "The Common Challenges of
Secure VMs" talk.

Let me know, on-list or off-list, on what topic you'd like to pick.

PS: Just like it was noted in the last year's call for volunteers, we
    will not ask LWN.net for money.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/805097/ -- A recap of KVM Forum 2019
[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-09/msg03536.html

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/kashyap

Re: Call for Volunteers: Summaries of a few KVMForum-2020 talks for an LWN article

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 03:27:07PM +0100, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> Hi, folks
> 
> Like last year[1], we're aiming to submit a KVM Forum 2020 "recap"
> article for LWN.
> 
> This won't be a comprehensive summary of a lot of talks — LWN normally
> aims for 1500 words; they say "fewer can sometimes work, and more is
> generally OK too".  Given that, the write-up can cover about four
> topics, similar to previous year's recap.
> 
> So I'm looking for a couple of volunteers.  Meanwhile, I'll write LWN
> folks an email to see if they're amenable to this.  If they can't accept
> it for some reason, Plan-B is qemu.org blog articles.

Hi, it's me again.

LWN said they're open for a summary article and/or a couple of in-depth
talks -- if there are volunteers.  Generally LWN audience prefers fewer
talks that go deeper.

For an in-depth article, I'm more comfortable doing Eric Blake's "NBD
and Bitmaps: Building Blocks of Change Block Tracking" talk, as I'm
somewhat familar with the topic.

Let us know if anyone else wants to do an in-depth article on any of the
other KVM Forum talks.

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/kashyap