On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 01:35:50AM +0300, Dan Armak wrote: > Perhaps it's a matter of who was able to get to the summit, which afaik was in > the US? Travel isn't cheap, unless someone was paying for free tickets for > all kernel devs...
KS took place on Monday and Tuesday at the Ottawa Congress Center, in Ottawa, Canada. Since yesterday (Wednesday), OLS 2003 is taking place in the same location. This isn't coincidental. I'm writing this email from the network room at the Ottawa Congress Center. More details about the kernel summit are available on http://lwn.net/Articles/40855/, and http://lwn.net/Articles/40611/. Subscriber only for the next few days, though. More details about what transpires at OLS 2003 will become available online as the conference goes on, and once we get back from here, Orna and I will be giving a Haifux talk on it on Monday, Aug. 4th. Addressing the original point in this thread, Linux development is an almost perfect meritocracy, as can be evidenced by looking at the variety of hackers around. I added the "Almost" qualifier because it's a lot easier to hack on anything when someone pays your bills - a lot easier to be good when you can devote all of your time to whatever you do. Then again, the way to get someone to pay for your work is to do a good job, so it balances out. For the curious, talks heard so far include Porting Device Drivers to 2.6 (http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2003/view_abstract.php?talk=120), Porting Linux to the M32R processor (http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2003/view_abstract.php?talk=42), Bringing PowerPC Book E processors to Linux (http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2003/view_abstract.php?talk=13) [excellent talk], Low-level optimizations in the PowerPC Linux Kernel (http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2003/view_abstract.php?talk=92) [very good as well]. Drinks imbibed include a Martini and a Cognac, but the conference is just starting. Cheers! -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org http://www.livejournal.com/~mulix/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
