We are pleased to announce the call for refereed track proposals for the 2014 edition of the Linux Plumbers Conference, which will be held in Düsseldorf Germany on October 15-17 in conjunction with LinuxCon (which takes place on the first three days of that same week). Proposals are due on July 11, 2014 at 11:59PM Central Europe Time.
Refereed track presentations are similar to traditional presentations, but preferably involve significant face-to-face discussion and debate. These presentations should focus on some specific issue in the "plumbing" in the Linux system, where example Linux-plumbing components include core kernel subsystems, core libraries, windowing systems, management tools, device support, media creation/playback, and so on. Presentations need not focus solely on a single specific Linux-plumbing component, in fact, the best presentations often involve issues that cut across multiple components. The Linux Plumbers refereed track will again be shared with LinuxCon, as it was last year in New Orleans. Because LPC and LinuxCon Europe are colocated and overlap by one day (Wednesday, October 15), we are opening the refereed presentations to attendees of both conferences. As a result, refereed track talk proposals will be submitted via LinuxCon Europe as Developer presentations, with the top plumbing-related talks being accepted into the combined Plumbers/LinuxCon track on Wednesday, October 15th. Proposals will be reviewed by both the Plumbers and LinuxCon Europe program committees, which means that submissions might be accepted into LinuxCon Europe instead of the Plumbers refereed track, in which case they will be scheduled for either Monday October 13th or Tuesday October 14th as part of the three-day Developer track. Although we cannot give a set of hard and fast rules in advance of reviewing the actual submissions, we can say that proposals covering completed work are more likely to be accepted into LinuxCon, while proposals that promise to generate significant cross-cutting discussion are more likely to be accepted into the Plumbers refereed track. For more details on how to submit your proposal, please see "Refereed Track Proposals" at http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2014/participate/. Of course, there is more to Plumbers than refereed-track presentations, so look for the call for Microconference proposals as well as upcoming calls for BoFs, hackfests, and lightning talks at http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2014/participate/. This will be an exciting and important conference, and we hope to see you in Düsseldorf this coming October! Thanx, Paul (Chair, LPC Program Committee) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
