+ ksummit-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx On 5/15/20 11:39 AM, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > [ Feel free to forward this to other Linux kernel mailing lists as > appropriate -- Ted ] Hi Ted, Can you please add ksummit-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to future related emails? Thanks, Frank > > This year, the Maintainers and Kernel Summit will NOT be held in > Halifax, August 25 -- 28th, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. > Instead, we will be pursuing a virtual conference format for both the > Maintainers and Kernel Summit, around the last week of August. > > As in previous years, the Maintainers Summit is invite-only, where the > primary focus will be process issues around Linux Kernel Development. > It will be limited to 30 invitees and a handful of sponsored > attendees. > > The Kernel Summit is organized as a track which is run in parallel > with the other tracks at the Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC), and is > open to all registered attendees of LPC. > > Linus will be generating a core list of people to be invited to the > Maintainers Summit. The top ten people from that list will receive > invites, and then program committee will use the rest of Linus's list > as a starting point of people to be considered. People who suggest > topics that should be discussed at the Maintainers Summit will also > be added to the list for consideration. To make topic suggestions for > the Maintainers Summit, please send e-mail to the > ksummit-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx list with a subject prefix > of [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT]. > > The other job of the program committee will be to organize the program > for the Kernel Summit. The goal of the Kernel Summit track will be to > provide a forum to discuss specific technical issues that would be > easier to resolve in person than over e-mail. The program committee > will also consider "information sharing" topics if they are clearly of > interest to the wider development community (i.e., advanced training > in topics that would be useful to kernel developers). > > To suggest a topic for the Kernel Summit, please do two things. > First, please tag your e-mail with [TECH TOPIC]. As before, please > use a separate e-mail for each topic, and send the topic suggestions > to the ksummit-discuss list. > > Secondly, please create a topic at the Linux Plumbers Conference > proposal submission site and target it to the Kernel Summit track. > For your convenience you can use: > > https://bit.ly/lpc20-submit > > Please do both steps. I'll try to notice if someone forgets one or > the other, but your chances of making sure your proposal gets the > necessary attention and consideration are maximized by submitting both > to the mailing list and the web site. > > People who submit topic suggestions before June 15th and which are > accepted, will be given free admission to the Linux Plumbers > Conference. > > We will be reserving roughly half of the Kernel Summit slots for > last-minute discussions that will be scheduled during the week of > Plumbers, in an "unconference style". This allows last-minute ideas > that come up to be given given slots for discussion. > > If you were not subscribed on to the kernel-discuss mailing list from > last year (or if you had removed yourself after the kernel summit), > you can subscribe to the discuss list using mailman: > > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ksummit-discuss > > The program committee this year is composed of the following people: > > Greg Kroah-Hartman > Jens Axboe > Jon Corbet > Ted Ts'o > Thomas Gleixner >
