Hi Marcel, John, On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 13:48 -0700, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi John, > > >>>> Sorry, forgot to copy linux-bluetooth and linux-nfc... > >>>> > >>>> On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 02:54:11PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > >>>>> Greetings! > >>>>> > >>>>> This is a reminder that we will have a Linux Wireless Mini-Summit in > >>>>> New Orleans this year on 19-20 September. This will immediately follow > >>>>> LinuxCon and will run concurrently with Linux Plumber's Conference. > >>>>> This event includes Linux developers for wireless LAN (802.11), > >>>>> Bluetooth, and NFC technologies. Both kernel and userland developers > >>>>> are welcomed and heartily encouraged to attend! > >>>>> > >>>>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Summits/New-Orleans-2013 > >>>>> > >>>>> The link above is a Wiki. We are using it to collect discussion > >>>>> topics and to negotiate agenda/scheduling options for the event. > >>>>> Please go there to record your intent to attend the event and to > >>>>> propopse topics for discussion. > >>>>> > >>>>> Please be aware that in order to attend the event above one must > >>>>> register for either LinuxCon or for Linux Plumbers Conference. > >>>>> Act now, before those events fill-up and close their registrations! > >>>>> > >>>>> We are allotted one "large" room (up to ~80 people "theater style"), and > >>>>> two "small" rooms (up to ~25 people) for this event. Based on history > >>>>> and the numbers of contributors, the larger room will primarily be > >>>>> for the 802.11 discussions and any "plenary" topics while the smaller > >>>>> rooms will be for Bluetooth, NFC, and any "breakout" topics. > >>>>> > >>>>> So...thoughts? Topics to discuss? > >>> > >>> Ping? We're now just 2 weeks away! > >>> > >>> Is our topic list complete? It looks a bit light... > >>> > >>> Anyone have any input on scheduling the topics? Are there any > >>> overlapping LPC sessions that it would make sense to work around? > >> > >> I'm attending though I haven't put my name on the wiki yet. > >> > >> Random thoughts; it doesn't look like any of these are covered in the > >> regular LinuxConf or LPC sessions. > >> > >> 1) State of the Union (maybe by multiple people in the same session per > >> their expertise), since perhaps not everyone doing eg 802.11 stuff knows > >> what's happening in BT or NFC land, or not everyone working on a > >> specific driver may know what new stuff their driver might need to be > >> fixed up for. Maybe 5 minutes or less for things like: > >> > >> * what's under the most active development right now? > >> * upcoming new driver, hardware, and new capabilities > >> * new 802.11 standards > >> * and what's coming up in the next year from the standards orgs > >> * what people will start working on soon > >> * what will 3.13 or 3.14 look like from a wireless perspective? > >> * 11s mesh status? > >> * anything interesting in wpa_supplicant land? > >> * anything new/interesting on the Android front? > >> > >> 2) Bluetooth - update about what's new and what's coming up in Bluez > >> land, and interaction with kernel 802.11 if any, > >> > >> 3) NFC - update about what's new and what's coming up in NFC land, where > >> it's getting used, what the stack looks like > >> > >> 4) What are users having the most problems with and how these problems > >> be fixed better/more quickly? Are they driver bugs? Are they stack > >> bugs? Supplicant bugs? NM/GUI/etc bugs? Is there anything in our > >> development processes that's not working as smoothly as it could be? > > > > Thanks, Dan -- those all look like decent discussion points. > > I've added most of the points above to the topic list: > > > > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Summits/New-Orleans-2013 > > > > Now, we need a few volunteers... > > > > Gustavo, can you do a session on Bluetooth developments? > > > > Samuel, can you cover NFC? > > I can do the Bluetooth part and I am just volunteering Samuel for NFC ;) Thanks Marcel for the initiative ;) John, I'll do the NFC part, sorry for not being able to reply earlier. Cheers, Samuel. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
