On Sat 12-12-20 17:29:57, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 10:48:53AM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote: > > We on the program committee hope everybody has been able to stay safe and > > healthy during this challenging time, and look forward to being able to see > > all of you in person again when it is safe. > > > > The current plans for LSFMMBPF 2021 are to schedule an in person conference > > in H2 (after June) of 2021. The tentative plan is to use the same hotel > > that we had planned to use for 2020, as we still have contracts with them. > > However clearly that is not set in stone. The Linux Foundation has done a > > wonderful job of working with us to formulate a plan and figure out the > > logistics that will work the best for everybody, I really can't thank them > > enough for their help. > > Thank you all for doing your best in the face of this disruption. I > really appreciate all the work you're putting in, and I can't wait to > see you all again in person. > > I hosted a Zoom call yesterday on the topic of Page Folios, and uploaded > the video. Thanks for organizing this. I couldn't attent directly but I have watched the video. I think this was a useful meeting. > There was interest expressed in the call on doing a follow-up > call on the topic of GUP (get_user_pages and friends). It would probably > also be good to have meetings on other topics. I hope I will have time to join this one. > I don't want this to be seen in any way as taking away from LSFMMBPF. > I see Zoom calls as an interim solution to not having face-to-face > meetings. Agreed! > I'd like to solicit feedback from this group on: > > - Time of day. There is no good time that suits everyone around > the world. With developers in basically every inhabited time zone, the > call will definitely take place in the middle of somebody's night, and > during somebody else's normal family time. Publishing the recordings > helps ameliorate some of this, but I feel we should shift the time > around. Having it at the same time of day helps people fit it into > their schedule of other meetings (and meals), but I think the benefits > of allowing more people to participate live outweighs the costs. Hard question without any good answer. You can rotate preferred timezone which should spread the suffering. > - Schedule. Friday's probably a bad day to have it, as it ends up > being Saturday for some people. It can move around the week too. > Also, probably wise to not have it over Christmas as most developers > have that period as family time. Yes, Friday tends to be not great. I think mid week should work better as the overalap > - Topics. I'm sure there's no shortage of things to discuss! I'm > happy to organise meetings for people even on topics I have no direct > interest in. Thanks for organizing this. I am pretty sure poeple will land on topics either in the call or over email. > And most urgently, when should we have the GUP meeting? On the call, > I suggested Friday the 8th of January, but I'm happy to set something > up for next week if we'd like to talk more urgently. I am unlikely to be able to join before the end of year so if you ask me. Thanks again and fingers crossed we can actually have a face to face meeting sometimes during next year. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
