The annual Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF (LSF/MM/BPF) Summit for 2023 will be held from May 8 to May 10 at the Vancouver Convention Center in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. LSF/MM/BPF is an invitation-only technical workshop to map out improvements to the Linux storage, filesystem, BPF, and memory management subsystems that will make their way into the mainline kernel within the coming years. LSF/MM/BPF 2023 will be a three day, stand-alone conference with four subsystem-specific tracks, cross-track discussions, as well as BoF and hacking sessions. https://events.linuxfoundation.org/lsfmm/ On behalf of the committee I am issuing a call for agenda proposals that are suitable for cross-track discussion as well as technical subjects for the breakout sessions. If advance notice is required for visa applications then please point that out in your proposal or request to attend, and submit the topic as soon as possible. We're asking that you please let us know you want to be invited by March 1, 2023. We realize that travel is an ever changing target, but it helps us get an idea of possible attendance numbers. Clearly things can and will change, so consider the request to attend deadline more about planning and less about concrete plans. 1) Fill out the following Google form to request attendance and suggest any topics https://forms.gle/VKVXjWGBHZbnsz226 In previous years we have accidentally missed people's attendance requests because they either didn't cc lsf-pc@ or we simply missed them in the flurry of emails we get. Our community is large and our volunteers are busy, filling this out will help us make sure we don't miss anybody. 2) Proposals for agenda topics should still be sent to the following lists to allow for discussion among your peers. This will help us figure out which topics are important for the agenda. lsf-pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and CC the mailing lists that are relevant for the topic in question: FS: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx MM: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx Block: linux-block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ATA: linux-ide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx SCSI: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx NVMe: linux-nvme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx BPF: bpf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Please tag your proposal with [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] to make it easier to track. In addition, please make sure to start a new thread for each topic rather than following up to an existing one. Agenda topics and attendees will be selected by the program committee, but the final agenda will be formed by consensus of the attendees on the day. 3) This year we would like to try and make sure we are including new members in the community that the program committee may not be familiar with. The Google form has an area for people to add required/optional attendees. Please encourage new members of the community to submit a request for an invite as well, but additionally if maintainers or long term community members could add nominees to the form it would help us make sure that new members get the proper consideration. For discussion leaders, slides and visualizations are encouraged to outline the subject matter and focus the discussions. Please refrain from lengthy presentations and talks; the sessions are supposed to be interactive, inclusive discussions. The COVID related restrictions can be found here, however at this time there are no protocols defined. https://events.linuxfoundation.org/lsfmm/attend/health-and-safety/ We are still looking into the virtual component. We will likely run something similar to what we did in 2022, but details on that will be forthcoming. 2022: https://lwn.net/Articles/lsfmm2022/ 2019: https://lwn.net/Articles/lsfmm2019/ 2018: https://lwn.net/Articles/lsfmm2018/ 2017: https://lwn.net/Articles/lsfmm2017/ 2016: https://lwn.net/Articles/lsfmm2016/ 2015: https://lwn.net/Articles/lsfmm2015/ 2014: http://lwn.net/Articles/LSFMM2014/ 3) If you have feedback on last year's meeting that we can use to improve this year's, please also send that to: lsf-pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Thank you on behalf of the program committee: Josef Bacik (Filesystems) Amir Goldstein (Filesystems) Martin K. Petersen (Storage) Javier González (Storage) Michal Hocko (MM) Dan Williams (MM) Martin KaFai Lau (BPF) Daniel Borkmann (BPF)
