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@@ -61,20 +61,18 @@
     </li>
     <li>
       Regular Linux contributor in both roles since 2008
-      <ul>
-	<li>
-	  Maintaining a net driver in my day job, plus core networking
-	  and PCI code as necessary
-	</li>
-	<li>
-	  Debian kernel team member, now doing most of the unstable
-	  maintenance aside from ports
-	</li>
-	<li>
-	  Maintaining Linux 3.2.<var>y</var> stable update series on
-	  kernel.org
-	</li>
-      </ul>
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Maintaining a net driver in my day job, plus core networking
+      and PCI code as necessary
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Debian kernel team member, now doing most of the unstable
+      maintenance aside from ports
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Maintaining Linux 3.2.<var>y</var> stable update series on
+      kernel.org
     </li>
   </ul>
 </div>
@@ -111,7 +109,7 @@
       needs new tools - <tt>teamd</tt>, <tt>teamnl</tt>, etc.
     </li>
     <li>
-      Want to make it work?  See
+      Make it work: see
       <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/695850">http://bugs.debian.org/695850</a>
     </li>
   </ul>
@@ -136,9 +134,9 @@
       configuration
     </li>
     <li>
-      Want to make it work?  See
+      Make it work: see
       <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/454795/">https://lwn.net/Articles/454795/</a>
-      and mail debian-kernel
+      and send proposal to debian-kernel
     </li>
   </ul>
 </div>
@@ -159,8 +157,8 @@
       are disabled for now
     </li>
     <li>
-      Want to make it work?  Join the X Strike Force and package the
-      new X drivers
+      Make it work: join the X Strike Force and package the new X
+      drivers
     </li>
   </ul>
 </div>
@@ -178,7 +176,7 @@
       restrictions when booted in this mode
     </li>
     <li>
-      Want to make Secure Boot work?  Come to the meeting on Tuesday
+      Make Secure Boot work: come to the meeting on Tuesday
     </li>
   </ul>
 </div>
@@ -198,30 +196,76 @@
       Must be explicitly enabled, but d-i doesn't do this by default
     </li>
     <li>
-      Want to make it work?
-      See <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/690977">http://bugs.debian.org/690977</a>
+      Make it work: fix <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/690977">http://bugs.debian.org/690977</a>
     </li>
   </ul>
 </div>
 
 <div class="slide">
-  <h1>User namespaces [3.7]</h1>
+  <h1>More support for containers</h1>
   <ul class="incremental">
     <li>
-      One of the last missing pieces for OpenVZ-like containers
+      Containers are lightweight VMs - run on the same kernel as host,
+      but with limited privileges and resources
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Previously done by OpenVZ and Linux-VServer; gradually being
+      reimplemented upstream
     </li>
     <li>
-      Each user namespace has its own <tt>root</tt> user with
-      privileges over the users and processes in that namespace - but
-      not the whole system
+      User namespaces (added in 3.7) support the existence of a
+      <tt>root</tt> user inside the container that is unprivileged
+      outside the container
     </li>
     <li>
       Currently somewhat experimental, and requires filesystem
-      changes which haven't been done for NFS or XFS
+      changes which haven't been done for XFS
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Make user namespaces work: send patches to upstream XFS
+      developers (this one's hard)
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>bcache [3.10]</h1>
+  <ul class="incremental">
+    <li>
+      Turns a fast block device into a cache for a larger, slower
+      device (see also: dm-cache, EnhanceIO)
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Needs its own set of userland tools
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Make it work:
+      see <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/708132">http://bugs.debian.org/708132</a>
+      (maybe just needs a sponsor)
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>ARMv7 multiplatform</h1>
+  <ul class="incremental">
+    <li>
+      Until recently, each ARM kernel image could support only a small
+      set of different chips
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Debian 'armmp' kernel now supports ARMv7 SoCs from Calxeda,
+      Freescale and Marvell, and others should be supported soon
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Debian could run on a much larger range of ARM hardware - but we
+      need installer and boot loader support to make this easy
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Make it work: join the ARM porters and d-i team
     </li>
     <li>
-      Want to make it work?  This needs upstream work to make those
-      filesystems compatible
+      Make the GPUs work: join a reverse-engineering project
     </li>
   </ul>
 </div>