Re: Call for volunteers: LWN.net articles about KVM Forum talks

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:02:59 +0100
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> LWN.net is a popular open source news site that covers Linux and other
> open source communities (Python, GNOME, Debian, etc).  It has published
> a few KVM articles in the past too.
> 
> Let's raise awareness of QEMU, KVM, and libvirt by submitting articles covering
> KVM Forum.

Great idea!

> 
> I am looking for ~5 volunteers who are attending KVM Forum to write an article
> about a talk they find interesting.
> 
> Please pick a talk you'd like to cover and reply to this email thread.
> I will then send an email to LWN with a heads-up so they can let us know
> if they are interested in publishing a KVM Forum special.  I will not
> ask LWN.net for money.
> 
> KVM Forum schedule:
> https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum-2019/program/schedule/

I think it might make sense to cover "Managing Matryoshkas: Testing
Nested Guests" (Marc Hartmayer) and "Nesting&testing" (Vitaly
Kuznetsov) in one article, and I volunteer for that.
> 
> LWN.net guidelines:
> https://lwn.net/op/AuthorGuide.lwn
> "Our general guideline is for articles to be around 1500 words in
> length, though somewhat longer or shorter can work too. The best
> articles cover a fairly narrow topic completely, without any big
> omissions or any extra padding."
> 
> I volunteer to cover Michael Tsirkin's "VirtIO without the Virt -
> Towards Implementations in Hardware" talk.
> 
> Thanks,
> Stefan