2017 Maintainer and Kernel Summit planning

The Kernel Summit is undergoing some changes this year; the core developers' gathering from previous events will be replaced by a half-day "maintainers summit" consisting of about 30 people. The process of selecting those people, and of selecting topics for the open technical session, is underway now; interested developers are encouraged to submit their topic ideas.

From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso-AT-mit.edu> To: ksummit-discuss-AT-lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org Subject: [Ksummit-discuss] Next steps and plans for the 2017 Maintainer and Kernel Summits Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 09:29:20 -0400 Message-ID: <20170614132920.csogpzkl4k5k7kaj@thunk.org>

After talking to Linus about what the next steps should be, here's the plan that we've come up with. The following people drawn from Linus's core list will be extended invitations to the Maintainers Summit. David Miller Greg KH Daniel Vetter Ingo Molnar Arnd Bergmann Andrew Morton Michael Ellerman Takashi Iwai Linus Torvalds Ben Hutchings Stephen Rothwell Ted Ts'o Shuah Kahn James Bottomley A mini-program committee composed of James Bottomley, Shuah Kahn, Greg KH, and myself will pick enough names to bring the total number of invited attendees to 30 for the Maintainers Summit, using the criteria which Linus has described. We will use the rest of names that Linus had mentioned as being part of his secondary list to preseed the list of people to be considered. People who suggest topics that should be discussed on the Maintainer's summit will be added to the list. Please prefix [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] to the subject line, and remember that we only have a half-day, and they should be appropriate for the Maintainer's summit --- that is, they should be focused on the development process. For technical topics, we will have a "Kernel Summit" that will be work much like the Technical Session days last year. The technical sessions will be run in parallel with the Open Source Summit Europe, and will be open to anyone who registered with the OSS Europe. The goal 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 for maintainers). To suggest a topic for the Kernel Summit, 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: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org We will also be reserving roughly half the slots to be scheduled on the day of the conference, but if you know are interested in organizing a discussion around a topic, or giving a presentation on some topic that would be of interest to kernel developers, please send them as soon as possible. For each topic that is accepted and submitted before July 8th, we will give a free admission to OSS Europe / Kernel Summit. All others will have to pay the normal registration fee. 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/ksummi... _______________________________________________ Ksummit-discuss mailing list Ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ksummi...