Since you were going to linux.conf.au 2010 in Wellington, NZ anyway in January of next year, you should submit a proposal to speak at the data storage and retrieval miniconf.
If you have something to say about storage hardware, file systems, raid, lvm, databases or anything else linux or open source and storage related, please submit early and submit often!
The call for proposals is open until September 28.
A while ago I posted that the combination of nginx and php5 in fastcgi mode was actually working better for me than apache with mod-php5.
In order to help me easily deploy new web hosts that use this setup, I created a tiny package that contains an init script and a configuration file.
Yay! My miniconf submission for linux.conf.au 2010 in Wellington was accepted!
I will shortly get my act together and write a proper brief and a request for proposals. However, if you're frothing at the mouth with excitement and want to know if you might have a suitable topic you could speak on, here's a short list of the sorts of topics I'm looking for:
After the relative popularity and success of the OpenSourceMac 2008.08 disc I made for Software Freedom Day last year, I now have an updated 2009.08 version.
Most applications have had bug fix releases, so I've included them. The disc includes the latest Firefox and I've added OpenOffice.org Aqua instead of NeoOffice. It also no longer includes some apps that have been re-licensed as payware.
Download it, burn it and give it to friends and family and ask them to do the same :-)