Re: Live patching MC at LPC2020?

[Alice <alicef@gentoo.org>]

Hello,

On 6/25/20 3:59 PM, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Tue 2020-03-31 16:52:04, Joe Lawrence wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 02:20:52PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> oh well, it sounds a bit awkward to be talking about any conference plans
>>> for this year given how the corona things are untangling in the world, but
>>> LPC planning committee has issued (a) statement about Covid-19 (b) call
>>> for papers (as originally planned) nevertheless. Please see:
>>>
>>> 	https://linuxplumbersconf.org/
>>> 	https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/7/abstracts/
>>>
>>> for details.
>>>
>>> Under the asumption that this Covid nuisance is over by that time and
>>> travel is possible (and safe) again -- do we want to eventually submit a
>>> livepatching miniconf proposal again?
> The conference is going to be an online event.
>
>
>> As for LPC mini-conf topics, I'd be interested in (at least):
>>
>> - Petr's per-object livepatch POC
>> - klp-convert status
>> - objtool hacking
>> - Nicolai's klp-ccp status
>> - arch update (arm64, etc)
>   
>> Hmm, all good points.  Some conferences have gone virtual to cope with
>> necessary cancellations, but who knows what things will look like even
>> at the end of August.  Perhaps we can still do something remotely if the
>> conditions dictate it.  But my vote would be yes, and let's see what
>> topics interest folks.
> It seems that there is interest into sharing/discussing some topics.
> The question is whether is has to be under the LPC even umbrella.
>
> Advantages of LPC:
>
>     + well defined date
>     + more attendees (ARM people, Steven Rostedt ;-)
>     + access to some powerful video conference tool
>     + access to another LPC content
>     + support for the conference in the long term
>
>
> Advantages of self-organized event:
>
>     + less paperwork?
>     + cheaper?
>     + only interested people invited
>     + date after summer holidays
>     + more time for the discussion

As they are both online events,
I personally have no preference on this.

Thanks,
Alice