Hello fellow embedded Linux developers, It's about time to plan our first meeting of the Linux boot-time SIG (Special Interest Group). Things have been very loosely organized as I've been trying to gauge interest in the SIG, and put forth some ideas around Linux boot-time to this list. Unfortunately, I'll be traveling the next few weeks, so the earliest I can put something together is the week of November 25th. I appears that people who have contacted me with interest in the SIG are primarily from the US and Europe, and maybe India. (It's hard to tell just from e-mails). Therefore I propose some kind of video-conference at 9:00 am Mountain Time (I'm in that time zone) on Tuesday, November 26th. That makes it 8:00 am Pacific, 5:00 pm CET, and 9:30 pm IST. Not great, but possibly OK. The agenda would include a number of things, including: - governance of the SIG - projects to pursue - frequency of meetings - what resources to use - where to put things (besides (obviously) upstream) - how to collaborate, etc. This is not a traditional trade association or funded project startup, so there won't be any memberships (with fees, tiers, voting rights, etc.). But I still think there should be some designated leadership and resources that will be available for the SIG to use. If I had my way, I'd use one of the Plumbers hack rooms for the meeting, but there are details for access to that, that I need to work out. If anyone can volunteer to provide the video conference hosting for the first SIG meeting, please contact me privately. (Otherwise, it might be Teams, which is what I have.) Please let me know any feedback you have on these plans. If you have a strong idea that you would like to attend the meeting, you can ping me privately to let me know your interest. (Fair warning - I'll be looking for volunteers for some tasks, so if you are easily talked into Open Source work, consider your attendance carefully. That said, lurkers are welcome also.) A few other thoughts... I've been a little wary about how much to copy LKML on these messages. Usually, most of the kernel mailing lists are highly focused on technical discussions and patch reviews. This SIG management stuff is neither of those, and I don't want to unduly burden the kernel lists with this type of material. To that end, I will probably stop CC-ing LKML on this type of administrative e-mail. Also, it may be appropriate to get a separate email list or communication channel for SIG-related conversations (ie discussions unrelated to kernel features.) Let me know what you think. Regards, -- Tim
