--- James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You can submit it as your position paper, certainly. It is not a "position" paper. There is too much SCSI Architecture Model (SAM) in it. But from linux-scsi point of view I guess it is. > However, the object of this event is not to collect a list of papers to > be presented: it's not a conference with hundreds of attendees (if you > want to present to an audience, you should submit to FAST, which is such > a conference, with which we're co-located). It's a roundtable type > discussion with 20-25 people in the field; plus some plenary sessions to > get input and ideas from people working on the filesystem layer. The > object is to stimulate discussion of important issues (which may be > guided by papers or other materials). The position paper thing is only > to ensure people actually have things they want to discuss (and to allow > the programme committee to pick the attendees if there would be too > many). Ok, so this is targeted at the same 20-25 Linux people who attended the "Vancouver Storage summit" and you're just using FAST to co-locate. I incorrectly assumed that this was targeted at storage professionals not necessarily Linux related, but with Linux exposure so as to hear new ideas and pathways. I also missed to see the "by-invitation" clause at the top. Thanks for the explanation! Luben - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
