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  94 <h1>Topics sought for the Kernel and Maintainer Summits</h1>
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  97 The annual Maintainer and Kernel Summits will be held in Vancouver, BC on
  98 November&nbsp;12 to&nbsp;15, in conjunction with the Linux Plumbers Conference.
  99 The program committee is looking for topics for both summits; read on for
 100 details on how to submit ideas and, perhaps, get an invitation to the
 101 Maintainer Summit.
 102 <p><hr><p>
 103 <table>
 104 <tr><td valign="top"><b>From</b>:</td>
 105              <td>&nbsp;</td><td valign="top">"Theodore Y. Ts'o" &lt;tytso-AT-mit.edu&gt;</td></tr>
 106 <tr><td valign="top"><b>To</b>:</td>
 107              <td>&nbsp;</td><td valign="top">linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel-AT-vger.kernel.org,        linux-mm-AT-kvack.org, netdev-AT-vger.kernel.org,        linux-block-AT-vger.kernel.org</td></tr>
 108 <tr><td valign="top"><b>Subject</b>:</td>
 109              <td>&nbsp;</td><td valign="top">Maintainer / Kernel Summit 2018 planning kick-off</td></tr>
 110 <tr><td valign="top"><b>Date</b>:</td>
 111              <td>&nbsp;</td><td valign="top">Thu, 30 Aug 2018 17:35:17 -0400</td></tr>
 112 <tr><td valign="top"><b>Message-ID</b>:</td>
 113              <td>&nbsp;</td><td valign="top">&lt;20180830213517.GA19110@thunk.org&gt;</td></tr>
 114 <tr><td valign="top"><b>Archive-link</b>:</td>
 115              <td>&nbsp;</td><td valign="top"><a href="https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/20180830213517.GA19110@thunk.org">Article</a></td></tr>
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 118 [ Feel free to forward this to other Linux kernel mailing lists as
 119   appropriate -- Ted ]
 120
 121 This year, the Maintainer and Kernel Summit will be in Vancouver,
 122 B.C., November 12th -- 15th.  The Maintainer's summit will be held on
 123 Monday, November 12th, in Vancouver, immediately before the Linux
 124 Plumber's Conference (LPC) November 13th -- 15th.
 125
 126 For the past few years, before 2017, we've scheduled mostly management
 127 and development process issues on the first day.  We then opened up
 128 the second day of the Kernel Summit to all attendees of the conference
 129 with which the Kernel Summit has been colocated, and called it the
 130 "Open Technical Day".  This is something that just made sense in order
 131 to assure that all of the necessary people needed to discuss a
 132 particular technical issue could be in the room.
 133
 134 Starting last year in Prague, we took the next logical step, and split
 135 the Kernel Summit in two.  The "Maintainer's Summit" is an
 136 invite-only, half-day event, where the primary focus will be process
 137 issues of Linux Kernel Development.  It will be limited to 30 invitees
 138 and a handful of sponsored attendees.  This makes it smaller than the
 139 first few kernel summits (which were limited to around 50 attendees).
 140
 141 The "Kernel Summit" is now organized as a track which is run in
 142 parallel with the other tracks at the Linux Plumber's Conference, and
 143 is open to all registered attendees of Plumbers.  Much as how we
 144 organized the Kernel Summit "open technical day" in 2016 in Santa Fe,
 145 the Kernel Summit schedule will be synchronized with the other tracks
 146 at the Plumber's Conference, and it will be open to all registered
 147 Plumber's attendees.
 148
 149 Linus has suggested the following ten people as the core of the people
 150 he would like invited to the Maintainer's Summit, which was calculated
 151 from statistics from his git tree.
 152
 153         David Miller
 154         Dave Airlie
 155         Greg KH
 156         Arnd Bergmann
 157         Ingo Molnar
 158         Mauro Carvalho Chehab
 159         Takashi Iwai
 160         Thomas Gleixner
 161         Andrew Morton
 162         Olof Johansson
 163
 164 As we did last year, there will be a mini-program committee that will
 165 be pick enough names to bring the total number of 30 for the
 166 Maintainer's Summit.  That program committee will consist of Arnd
 167 Bergmann, Thomas Gleixner, Greg KH, Paul McKenney, and Ted Ts'o.
 168
 169 We will use the rest of names on the list generated by Linus's script
 170 as a starting point of people to be considered.  People who suggest
 171 topics that should be discussed on the Maintainer's summit will also
 172 be added to the list.  To make topic suggestions for the Maintainer's
 173 Summit, please send e-mail to the ksummit-discuss list with a subject
 174 prefix of [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT].
 175
 176
 177 The other job of the program committee will be to organize the program
 178 for the Kernel Summit.  The goal of the Kernel Summit track will be to
 179 provide a forum to discuss specific technical issues that would be
 180 easier to resolve in person than over e-mail.  The program committee
 181 will also consider "information sharing" topics if they are clearly of
 182 interest to the wider development community (i.e., advanced training
 183 in topics that would be useful to kernel developers).
 184
 185 To suggest a topic for the Kernel Summit, please tag your e-mail with
 186 [TECH TOPIC].  As before, please use a separate e-mail for each topic,
 187 and send the topic suggestions to:
 188
 189         ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org
 190
 191 People who submit topic suggestions before September 21st and which
 192 are accepted, will be given a free admission to the Linux Plumbers
 193 Conference.
 194
 195 We will reserving roughly half the Kernel Summit slots for last-minute
 196 discussions that will be scheduled during the week of Plumber's, in an
 197 "unconference style".  This was extremely popular in Santa Fe and in
 198 Prague, since it allowed ideas that came up in hallway discussions,
 199 and in Plumber's Miniconference, to be given scheduled, dedicated
 200 times for that discussion.
 201
 202
 203 If you were not subscribed on to the kernel-discuss mailing list from
 204 last year (or if you had removed yourself after the kernel summit),
 205 you can subscribe to the discuss list using mailman:
 206
 207    <a href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ksummit-discuss">https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ksummi...</a></pre>
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