Sad to see the advent calendar go

Sad to see the advent calendar go

[Simon Sharwood]

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Hi QEMU folk,
Simon Sharwood here, virtualization writer for Theregister.com

Sad to see the advent calendar going ... I was looking forward to the 2022
edition.

I'm totally freelancing in a personal capacity here and not writing a story
... but what order of magnitude of costs are you looking at to keep it
alive?

Simon.

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Re: Sad to see the advent calendar go

[Eldon Stegall]

Hi Simon,

Thanks for your interest in the calendar! I am not a regular QEMU
contributor, but I am a longtime user, and ran the calendar in 2020. I
also put out a submission request for the calendar this past year, but
there wasn't much response. The cost to host the calendar is trivial, we
just need to convert some of the sysadmin responsibilities, and that is
in progress.

As far as future calendars go, the effort to construct a new calendar
with novel, thematic content is substantial. Some of the difficulty lies
in the technical element, but a lot of it lies in the synthesis and
ideation.

In 2020 I had a number of community submissions, and good pointers,
but I also put in substantial effort, which I was capable of as a result
of a holiday sabbatical. This year was a little different.

I'm not sure if others in the community have the same perspective, but
that is my perspective, and I would be committed to the 2023 calendar if
folks were interested. I assembled some resources for the 2022 calendar,
but I think with a little more upfront planning, and some directed
request, I can coordinate a much better outcome for 2023.

Thanks,
Eldon

Re: Sad to see the advent calendar go

[Thomas Huth]

  Hi Eldon!

On 05/12/2022 20.07, Eldon Stegall wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> Thanks for your interest in the calendar! I am not a regular QEMU
> contributor, but I am a longtime user, and ran the calendar in 2020. I
> also put out a submission request for the calendar this past year, but
> there wasn't much response.

Drat, I completely missed your message in October, otherwise I would have 
replied :-/
I think I have ideas left for at least two images.

> As far as future calendars go, the effort to construct a new calendar
> with novel, thematic content is substantial. Some of the difficulty lies
> in the technical element, but a lot of it lies in the synthesis and
> ideation.
> 
> In 2020 I had a number of community submissions, and good pointers,
> but I also put in substantial effort, which I was capable of as a result
> of a holiday sabbatical. This year was a little different.
> 
> I'm not sure if others in the community have the same perspective, but
> that is my perspective, and I would be committed to the 2023 calendar if
> folks were interested. I assembled some resources for the 2022 calendar,
> but I think with a little more upfront planning, and some directed
> request, I can coordinate a much better outcome for 2023.

I agree - the main problem is to come up with a list of 24 good ideas and 
with the preparation of the images - which takes a lot of time.

Since I didn't see your message in October, I thought there would not be 
interest in another edition. And given the fact that we don't get the server 
traffic for free anymore and the server needs a major re-installation soon 
anyway (its OS will be EOL in 2024), I thought it would be best to finally 
decommission the advent calendar. But if you plan another edition for 2023 
and want to take care of the server issues, please count me in for at least 
two images next year :-)

  Thomas