[lug] Packt Publishing?

[Alan Robertson]

I've been assuming that it would be 20 hours or so for each one-hour
video, and they want one out every two weeks. I don't think I can make
that schedule work.

I *might* be able to do one a  month after my life settles down a bit. 

They want the series to be on Practical DevOps Security. That would
certainly be a good topic to cover.

Since security folks can't keep up with "normal" change rates - just
imagine how hard it is to keep up with a properly-running DevOps
environment where you have a release every week or two - or even
continuous deployment - where you might have several updates per day...

And Docker makes that harder by "hiding" dependencies and
vulnerabilities inside containers... And sharing secrets with containers
- so many ways to do that wrong...

So, it's an interesting topic, and very much needed...


-- 
  Alan Robertson
  alanr at unix.sh

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017, at 08:57 AM, Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> It was a while back, but my vague recollection was that they asked me
> to write for them but paid diddly compared to Linux Journal, Linux
> Format (UK), No Starch Press and Pearson, all of which I'd already
> written for.  So I didn't do it.  No idea how they compare now,
> however.  I haven't read any of their publications (that I remember) so
> can't comment on their quality.
> 
> How-to writing (and now, videos) is very time consuming to get right,
> and at the low rates it is hard to justify the time unless it is some
> kind of labor of love.
> 
> Don't know about the video series world, but if you want to get into
> writing I'd check with No Starch Press.  I've enjoyed working with them
> in the past.  And while I don't get rich from it, the residuals (in the
> very low 3 digits) from my books are still coming in twice a year.  Not
> sure how much longer that will last as the books are gettin' old.
> 
> On Thu, 2017-07-20 at 07:49 -0600, Alan Robertson wrote:
> > Has anyone heard of them?
> > 
> > Someone from there is trying to get me to do a video series for them.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> -- 
> Michael J. Hammel <mjhammel at graphics-muse.org>
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