The Linux Foundation's Vault (http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/vault ) event focusing on Linux storage and filesystems currently has their call for papers open - but it closes this Friday, January 29th. I'm highlighting this because GlusterFS is mentioned as a suggested topic! This year, it's in Raleigh, North Carolina. >From http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/vault/program/cfp CFP Close: January 29, 2016 CFP Notifications: February 9, 2016 Schedule Announced: February 11, 2016 Suggested Topics We seek proposals on a diverse range of topics related to storage, Linux, and open source, including: Object, Block, and File System Storage Architectures (Ceph, Swift, Cinder, Manila, OpenZFS) Distributed, Clustered, and Parallel Storage Systems (**GlusterFS**, Ceph, Lustre, OrangeFS, XtreemFS, MooseFS, OCFS2, HDFS) Persistent Memory and Other New Hardware Technologies File System Scaling Issues IT Automation and Storage Management (OpenLMI, Ovirt, Ansible) Client/server file systems (NFS, Samba, pNFS) Big Data Storage Long Term, Offline Data Archiving Data Compression and Storage Optimization Software Defined Storage -- Anyone want to put in some great 3.8 talks? -- amye -- Amye Scavarda | amye@xxxxxxxxxx | Gluster Community Lead _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel