Re: [Qemu-devel] Help wanted: QEMU Advent Calendar 2016

[Thomas Huth]

 Dear QEMU community,

the website for the QEMU Advent Calendar 2016 is now online:

 http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2016/

(thanks to Jeff Cody and Stefan Hajnoczi for the help with getting started!)

Note that we still need some more disk images to be able to complete the
calendar this year, so if anybody wants to contribute, please get in
touch! ... see my original mail below for more information.

 Thomas


On 17.09.2016 15:05, Thomas Huth wrote:
> 
>  Hi all!
> 
> This year, we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of KVM [1] (and the
> 25th anniversary of Linux), so to contribute to this celebration, we
> would like to reanimate the QEMU Advent Calendar.
> 
> If you didn't see the previous QEMU Advent Calendar 2014 yet, have a look at
> 
>   http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/
> 
> This year, too, the QEMU Advent Calendar 2016 will be a website that
> reveals a new disk image for download each day in December until the
> holiday season starts. Launching the disk image under QEMU will bring up
> a nice surprise!
> 
> But to be able to make this happen, we need help from people who
> - have ideas for disk images
> - would like to prepare one or more disk images.
> Ideally, you have an idea for a disk image and also prepare it yourself.
> But we also are glad to get just the ideas, or help from people who
> would like to prepare a disk image with the idea from somebody else!
> 
> Disk image requirements:
>  * We need 24 disk images (for the first 24 days of December)
>  * Content must be freely redistributable (i.e. no proprietary
>    license that prevents distribution). For GPL based software,
>    you need to provide the source code, too.
>  * Provide a name and a short description of the disk image
>    (e.g. with hints on what to try)
>  * Provide a ./run shell script that prints out the name and
>    description/hints and launches QEMU
>  * Provide a screenshot/image/logo for the website
>  * Size should be ideally under 100 MB per disk image
> 
> Are you interested in participating? Then please reply to this email
> (off-list if you do not want to spoil your idea for disk images).
> 
> Or do you have questions? Then feel free to reply or ask on the #qemu
> channel on irc.oftc.net, too.
> 
>  Thomas & Kashyap
> 
> 
> PS: The QEMU Advent Calendar 2016 is a secular calendar (not
> religious). The idea is for the QEMU community to create a fun
> experience to share with everyone, and to celebrate the 10th anniversary
> of KVM. You don't need to celebrate Christmas or another religious
> festival to participate!
> 
> PPS: Thanks to Stefan Hajnoczi for organizing the Advent Calendar 2014
> ... as you might have noticed, I also shamelessly lent some ideas and
> sentences from his announcement e-mail from two years ago :-) [2]
> 
> 
> [1] According to the following presentation, the anouncement of KVM was
> in October 2006:
>  http://www.linux-kvm.org/images/6/61/KvmForum2007$kf2007-keynote.pdf
> 
> [2] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-10/msg02592.html
>