On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 08:05:48AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > 4) Presentations. 90% of the conference is 1-2 people standing at the front > > of the room, talking to a room of 20-100 people, with only a few people in > > the audience who cares. We do our best to curate the presentations so we're > > not wasting peoples time, but in the end I don't care what David Howells is > > doing with mount, I trust him to do the right thing and he really just needs > > to trap Viro in a room to work it out, he doesn't need all of us. > > ... and allow the other 3-5 people who're interested or affected the > opportunity to sit in. Like a mailing list, but higher bandwidth. Latency can be more unpleasant, actually - you try to discuss something between 3 people, when one is in .uk, another - in .us (east coast) and the third one - in ,au (also east coast). Timezone deltas - 5 hours and 8 hours, in opposite directions... Incidentally, that was about mount, with me and David being two of participants; I somewhat hoped to get that sorted out at LSF, but Ian won't be there anyway. OTOH, that's just an 8 hours delta...
