My first talk
One day, out of the blue, I get a mail from one of my B'lore team members that a conference by the name of RootConf is being held for system admins. Considering the time and effort we have spent on setting up our own cloud and its monitoring, from scratch, we were expected to submit proposals. Now I'm thinking "Why will anyone want to hear me speak?? After all, there will be seasoned speakers and experienced admins attending the conference". After some thought I decided "There ain't anything wrong in submitting a proposal. Who knows, it may not even get as many votes to be featured as a talk". So, fearlessly, I typed down my proposal topic - "Infrastructure Monitoring using Chef and Nagios". Sounds deep doesn't it! Well when my mentor saw it he had no reaction. According to him, the topic din't catch his eye.. Of course it din't! For him its a day's work but for me it took weeks to achieve it! A seasoned speaker hi