• using virtual machines effectively for development
  • types of VMs (chroot, container, qemu, kvm, virtualbox, vmware, etc)
  • types of VM management (libvirt, openstack, vagrant, etc)
  • storage management (image file, lvm)
  • managing VM configuration (ansible, vagrant, etc)
  • sharing files betewen host and guest (9p, nfs, rsync, git)
  • editing files remotely (remote editor, emacs tramp)
  • ssh -A
• starting your own project
  • source code layout
  • code hosting
  • mailing lists, irc channels, websites
  • http://blog.smartbear.com/open-source/how-to-turn-your-pile-of-code-into-an-open-source-project/
  • starting your own project vs joining an existing one
• managing e-mail, and other communications, efficiently
• interviews: paths into hackerdom
  • similar to http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/docs/ldpResearch/ldp-historic/LinuxNews.03A maybe
  • possible people:
    • Joey Hess
    • Vince Sanders
    • Steve McIntyre
    • Enrico Zini
    • Rob Kendrick
    • Ben Hutchins
    • Paul Sherwood
    • Russ Allbery
• famous bugs in the history of computing
  • comp.risks
  • https://raygun.io/blog/2014/05/10-costly-software-errors-history/
  • mariner 1, ariane 5, pentium fpu, other famous bugs

• software development processes in free sw vs traditional

• Libre vs Gratis (Free as in Beer vs Free as in Freedom)

• There and back again - A brief trip through the network stack
  • Starting at physical layer, cables plugged into sockets/ports, voltage wiggles become digital data
  • Routing in a shared medium: addressing to route packets
    • Local routing via MAC, IP on top to route between networks
    • Network auto-discovery by DHCP
  • Configuring interfaces
• Build systems - there are many like it, but this one is mine
• Debugging - The overlooked skill
• implementing toy languages
• implementing toy CPU architectures
• how to be a mensch, and help make the world better for those not white straight males
• how to estimate the number of people who use your software
• virtulisation options: qemu, kvm, libvirt, virtualbox, openstack, aws, docker, lxc, systemd-nspawn, ...
• stability of software vs adding tons of features all the time - pros and cons of each approach
• how to have a disagreement without burning bridges or ragequitting
• Why Lua is the bestest language evah!
• recognising WHEN to withdraw from a project or shutting it down

Ideas for short reserve articles

• parser/lexer options and parsing of input
• aggregation of places to find progrmaming ideas when starting out