Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751843AbXAVOdx (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:33:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751841AbXAVOdx (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:33:53 -0500 Received: from fogou.chygwyn.com ([195.171.2.24]:58098 "EHLO fogou.chygwyn.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751839AbXAVOdw (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:33:52 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 4062 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:33:51 EST Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:17:02 +0000 From: Steven Whitehouse To: Theodore Tso , Alan Cox , Christoph Hellwig , ksummit-2006-discuss@thunk.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit Message-ID: <20070122131702.GA31129@fogou.chygwyn.com> References: <20070122110711.GA5917@lst.de> <20070122124502.GC30124@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20070122131416.GA10562@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070122131416.GA10562@thunk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Organization: ChyGwyn Limited X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "fogou.chygwyn.com", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: Hi, On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:14:17AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:45:02AM -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Definitely disagree with that. I'd like to see the conference somewhere > > else different this time - perhaps Czech Republic, or somewhere else more > > easterly and Linux active (or even Finland...) > > > > Understand that one of the feedback that I get from the keepers of the > corporate travel budgets is that money for sending employees to exotic > locations is finite --- which is why we haven't tried pairing the > kernel summit with linux.conf.au. Cambridge works out because there > are relatively cheap flights to Amsterdam and then you can take a > cheap Ryan Air flight to Stanisted. Still, the fact that it isn't > paired with another conference means that we are getting some > expressions of unhappiness from other Kernel Summit stakeholders. > It's for that reason that (a) I'm trying to line up some folks who > might be interested in trying to put together a relatively small, > 2-day technical conference after the Kernel Summit, which can > hopefully serve as a seed for something like OLS and LCA in UK/Europe, > and (b) I've told folks that the moving it away from Cambridge is a > one-time experiment, after which point we will re-evaluate. > [...] Content analysis details: (0.0 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.0 UNPARSEABLE_RELAY Informational: message has unparseable relay lines Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1811 Lines: 37 Hi, On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:14:17AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:45:02AM -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Definitely disagree with that. I'd like to see the conference somewhere > > else different this time - perhaps Czech Republic, or somewhere else more > > easterly and Linux active (or even Finland...) > > > > Understand that one of the feedback that I get from the keepers of the > corporate travel budgets is that money for sending employees to exotic > locations is finite --- which is why we haven't tried pairing the > kernel summit with linux.conf.au. Cambridge works out because there > are relatively cheap flights to Amsterdam and then you can take a > cheap Ryan Air flight to Stanisted. Still, the fact that it isn't > paired with another conference means that we are getting some > expressions of unhappiness from other Kernel Summit stakeholders. > It's for that reason that (a) I'm trying to line up some folks who > might be interested in trying to put together a relatively small, > 2-day technical conference after the Kernel Summit, which can > hopefully serve as a seed for something like OLS and LCA in UK/Europe, > and (b) I've told folks that the moving it away from Cambridge is a > one-time experiment, after which point we will re-evaluate. > Wrt, point (a), UKUUG are moving their UK based Summer Linux conference to coincide timewise with the kernel summit. Normally its in the July/August time frame. Location probably, but last I heard from Alasdair Kergon not certain to be, in Cambridge, Steve. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/