[CLUE-Admin] speakers needed

[David Anselmi]

Lynn Danielson wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> Many apologies, but I do not yet have a main speaker for
> January and I haven't confirmed a KISS presentation yet
> either.

I've been thinking about doing a DNS talk, but I don't really want to 
work on it that soon.  People will get tired of hearing me (if they 
aren't already).

If push comes to shove, perhaps a panel discussion, informal Q&A, or 
ad-lib sort of thing.  When I heard Kent Beck talk, he wanted to pick 
topics/questions by some sort of whiteboarding exercise--anyone know how 
to do that?  If we do something informal I'd be happy to play a part, 
however would be best.

The way I would approach DNS is to explaing the fundamentals for people 
who want to know more than resolv.conf(5).  But I don't have a terrible 
lot of experience beyond that.

Is there anyone with experience running any significant DNS setup that 
could talk?  Tummy, Techangle, Americanisp (they use djbdns), Barb's outfit?

Cricket Liu could give the talk he did for FRUUG two weeks ago 
(http://fruug.org/Archive/2002-12/writeup.html).  The talks I have heard 
from him deal with security and assume an understanding of DNS and 
running BIND servers.  You can look at his slides and see if you think 
they're over our heads.  He might be willing to talk on a different 
aspect of DNS instead.

Other ideas (off the top of my head, not necessarily worth considering):

Roger Frank on education (a contrast to John Hamilton's talk)

Jim Intriglia or David Wilson on their experience teaching in community 
college.

Government people, like the Jefco guy that had Red Hat here.  There may 
be some feds too.

I'd like to learn more about how ISPs operate--what their setups are 
like, how they get upstream service, what their business models and 
challenges are.

Zonker could talk to us about writing.  Not sure what angle would be 
best, but there are several.

Dave