On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:26 -0800, Joe Buck wrote: > > Also think about what kinds of presentations you'd like to hear and > > encourage the appropriate people to submit proposals about those topics. > > It would be good to bring in the user perspective, for example, a > discussion among people who are responsible for building complete > GNU/Linux or BSD distributions with GCC. What problems are they > experiencing, how have things changed over time, how does the state of GCC > look from their perspective, is there anything GCC could do that would > make their jobs easier (yeah yeah, run 10x faster and make smaller, better > code. How about anything that is achievable)? It could be an invited > session.
One idea I've always pondered is to have brief (perhaps 1-2 hr) tutorials, given by people in their area of expertise, as a means for other developers to come up to speed on a topic that interests them. Is this something that appeals to others? Ben