[Devel] containers mini-summit @ Linux Symposium

Tue Feb 10 23:46:41 PST 2009

What about organizing containers mini-summit during (now Montreal) Linux 
Symposium 2009, similar to what we did last year? Do you think we should 
meet and discuss our plans for the upcoming year, check the progress and 
try to find ways around major obstacles?

If people think it makes sense I will start mocking up a proposal.

Regards,
  Kir.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	2009 Call for Participation - Reminder
Date: 	Wed, 4 Feb 2009 17:56:32 -0600 (CST)
From: 	info at linuxsymposium.org
To: 	kir at openvz.org

Below is the 2009 Linux Symposium Call for Participation, you can also view
it on our website at http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2009/cfp.php

It was pointed out to me that I should have included it in my last email
and that many people were off in Australia at the time.  We're hoping to
see your proposal soon, especially those for Mini-Summits!

Call For Participation
2009 Linux Symposium
Centre Mont-Royal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
July 13th-17th, 2009

About the Symposium
2009 will be the 11th annual Linux Symposium and will see some format
changes. The 13th and 14th of July will be dedicated to full day and
half-day tutorials and Mini-Summits, the 15th-17th will be the paper
presentations, bird of a feather sessions and the keynote address.

We Are Soliciting For

Tutorials of both half and full-day lengths. We have allocated two full
days for tutorials in 2009 (Monday-Tuesday) and would like to see topics
ranging from Kernel development to user-space development and system
administration.

Mini-Summits of between 10 and 250 attendees and from one to two days in
length. We provide the space, the audio-video and network access and you
organize your own gathering. If you would like to organize a mini-Summit
please contact info at linuxsymposium.org to discuss.

Technical Paper Presentations on topics ranging from driver development,
kernel debugging, emerging technologies, to embedded systems development,
and userspace development tools.

Bird of a Feather Session informal meetings setup to discuss various
topics. BoFS can be either submitted in advance or when on-site but
advance notification helps ensure people are aware of your session.

Volunteers will be needed to help with a number of event related tasks, if
you can spare some time see the section at the bottom of this document for
more information.
What to Submit
The Proposal

You will need to submit a proposal of up to a maximum of 750 characters
(about 150 words) that details what you plan on talking about and why it
is important that the community learn more about your topic.

You will also need to submit a short biography of the main
presenter/author of up to 150 characters (about 75 words) along with your
proposal. This should include some details on your background and why you
are the person to be presenting this topic.

Example Proposal

Here is an example of how your proposal should look:
The Linux kernel evolves rapidly with around 1700 patches a month going
into the base kernel for the past two years. With this kind of fast
development, we need a way to ensure that the patches being merged do not
cause performance regression in Linux kernel. The Linux Kernel Performance
project started in July 2005 and is our effort to ensure every dot release
from Linus is evaluated with key workloads. We will present our benchmark
methodology, infrastructure and the benchmark results collected over the
2.6 kernel development cycle. We will examine a few examples of historical
performance regressions that occurred and how the Linux community worked
together to address them to make Linux a world-class enterprise operating
system.

In collaboration with [Name], [Company]. (If there is a co-author)

Example Biography
Here is an example of how your biography should look:

Greg Kroah-Hartman is the current Linux kernel maintainer for more driver
subsystems than he wants to admit, along with the driver core, sysfs,
kobject, kref, and debugfs code. He also helped start the linux-hotplug
and udev projects, and is one half of the kernel stable maintainer team.
He works for SuSE Labs / Novell and does various kernel related things for
them, and is the author of the book, "Linux Kernel in a Nutshell", the
co-author of the book, "Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition" and a
contributing editor for Linux Journal.
Where to Submit

Please submit your abstract online at http://www.linuxsymposium.org/ by
logging into your registration account. . If you do not have an account
yet you can create one first and then submit your proposal and biography.

When to Submit
Proposal submission will be open from January 15th, 2008 until February
28th 2009 at midnight eastern time.

Committee Review Process
The programme committee will review your proposal per the guidelines
above. Failure to read and follow the guidelines will result in your
proposal being rejected. The committee will send out acceptance and
rejection notifications starting on March 1st, 2009 and will do their best
to have them all out by March 7th, 2009.

Final Submission

Abstract
The abstract will be published on the website and in the official event
programme. It is what attendees will use to choose which presentations
they will be attending. It must not exceed two paragraphs in length.

Here is an example of how your abstract should look:

Linux is becoming the operating system of choice in many embedded
applications. While there are many differences between developing native
Linux on a quad processor system with 16Gig of Memory and 250Gig of RAID
storage developing a cross compiled Linux for a processor that costs less
than price of a good sandwich, limited to 16Meg of SDRAM, and 4 Meg of
Flash, there are a many things that are exactly the same.

This tutorial will teach the attendees what kind of Linux based networked
systems are possible to deploy using low cost hardware, and open source
software. Every person will be given a device upon the start of the class
and by the end they will have created and debugged a few innovative
different devices. Knowledge of building and running a standard Kernel and
an understanding of C is required.
Papers
Final papers must be formatted using the Linux Symposium LaTeX template.
If you require any assistance please ensure that you notify us a minimum
of three weeks prior to the final submission deadline.

Final papers should format between 5 and 15 pages in length and will be
printed in black and white at 600dpi. Please provide all original images
in their original scalable and high-resolution format. Do not include low
resolution bitmap images as they will not look good when printed.

We will need a building printable version of your paper checked in by
April 1st, 2009 but you will be able to submit revisions up until May 1st,
2009.
Additional Details
Presentation Times

Paper presentations will be 45 minutes followed by a 15 minute break
before the next sessoion.

Tutorials are either half-day (10am-2pm or 2pm-6pm) or full day
(10am-6pm), please specify in your proposal how much time you require.
A/V Equipment

An XGA (1024x786) LCD projector will be available to display output from a
laptop computer.
Publication Rights

The conference requires non-exclusive publication rights to submitted
papers including the publication of audio and video proceedings. Copyright
is retained by the author. We do ask that we be the first organisation to
publish any given paper.

Further, as stated in the official templates, and on the Credits page from
the Proceedings of this year and prior years: "Authors retain copyright to
all submitted papers, but have granted unlimited redistribution rights to
all as a condition of submission."

Language
The official language of the event is English and papers must be submitted
in proofread English, however this year we are also going to publish
non-English papers on-line (not in the printed proceedings due to editing
issues) as long as they are submitted as a PDF ready to post.

Programme Committee
James Bottomley, Novell
Bdale Garbee, HP
Dave Jones, Red Hat
Dirk Hohndel, Intel
Gerrit Huizenga, IBM
Andrew Hutton, Linux Symposium
Alasdair Kergon, Red Hat
Matthew Wilson, rPath

Proceedings Committee
Robyn Bergeron
Volunteers Needed!

Proceedings
We are looking to expand the proceedings committee with people familiar
with, and willing to learn LaTeX and help out authors with their
formatting. If you would like to help out with formatting a paper or two
please send info@ an email and we will get things started.
Web Design

We would love some help improving the look of our site. If you have some
artistic talent (which we clearly lack) and some free time let us know and
we'd love to work with you to improve things.

Staff
If you're local to Ottawa or Montreal and would like to help get things
organized prior to and at the Symposium drop us a note. Tasks like editing
together the programme, printing and assembling materials, and providing
on-site logistical support are always in need of more help.

Promotion
As always we rely greatly on word of mouth for promotion and would love if
you could forward this CFP to as many people as possible. 

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