Go to http://kernel.org/ols I took the OLS proceedings volumes for each year from 2002 to 2007, mirrored them, and split them up into individual papers. I am now reading and summarizing those papers (see http://kernel.org/doc/ols/2002), in order to index them by topic. (Some papers have abstracts, but these mostly mention the questions that motivated the paper, not the answers provided, and are not sufficient for indexing the papers.) The scripts to split each volume into individual papers are linked from http://kernel.org/doc/ols, and are python scripts using the pdftk package. (I just checked them into the mercurial repository. At some point I need to reproduce the web page from the repository, plus the various scripts to re-download the data I'm mirroring and process it, but I'll get to that...) Some years (2004 and 2007) are available already split up, but I re-split them to consistently put the OLS boilerplate pages (the title page and credits page) at the end of each PDF instead of the beginning. (*shrug* six of one...) I've contacted Andrew J. Hutton of OLS (ajh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx), who thinks he may be able to dig up some of the earlier proceedings in electronic format. So far, he hasn't had time to do this. I've tracked down a few (such as Greg KH's 2001 paper on hotplug). Tim Bird of CELF has expressed interest in finding volunteers to help summarize. http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/16/501 There are also audio recordings from earlier years. Haven't quite figured out how to approach that yet. (Try to do transcripts, perhaps? Voice recognition or by hand?) I also mirrored the presentation slides (not the same as the presentation papers) which the OLS website made available for 2006. Unfortunately, OLS only hosted about half of them, and linked to the individual developer websites, some of which had already gone down when I looked a year later. I've mirrored them and tracked down all but one of the missing slides from the original developers. (Andrew Hutton should have that last one, if he ever gets back to me. It was theoretically mirrored on OLS website, but that link is 404 now. There is lots and lots and lots more work to do here, mostly reading dense technical prose to figure out which ones are still relevant and in what categories... Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
