From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751635AbXAVLH1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:07:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751638AbXAVLH1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:07:27 -0500 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:57320 "EHLO mail.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751631AbXAVLH0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:07:26 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:07:11 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ksummit-2006-discuss@thunk.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit Message-ID: <20070122110711.GA5917@lst.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Spam-Score: 0 () Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:09:17AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > Hi folks, > > It's time to start kicking off the 2007 Kernel Summit planning > process. This year, the Kernel Summit will be held in Cambridge, > England, at the DeVere University Arms Hotel, September 5-6 (with a > welcome reception on the 4th). The decision to move the Kernel Summit > to England is a one-year experiment based on the very strong request of > last year's kernel summit attendees to try a location outside of Ottawa, > and especially from the roughly 1/3rd of the attendees that come from > the UK or Europe. So the plan is for us to book the Ottawa Congress > Ceter space for July 2008 (which we will need to do by mid-year 2007), Very strong please no from me. Please move it around to different venues, if needed in north america again. kernel summit shouldn't be a marketing add-on but something on it's own. While we're at it it would be nice to get rid of all that usenix and sponsors that get a seat baggage aswell, especially as we've proven that all small on-topic conferences without that overhead are a lot more productive.