Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux
	Kernel Summit
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       ksummit-2007-discuss@thunk.org
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On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 08:53 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> As usual, "it depends" on the content.  Can we provide them with
> sufficient instructions/guidance so that the listeners get the content
> that is desired instead of just some pseudo-marketing or requirements
> list?  Any of those panels (Customer or CPU) could have been good or
> bad.

This is a really nasty problem.  By and large, only organisations who
are active participants in the Linux community are happy sending their
technical architects ungaurded to a developer summit (like we get for
the CPU panel).  The objective is always to get technical (not
marketing) people who haven't been frightened into silence by their
legal department and, if people want chipsets, that's what we'll try to
do ... it just takes a lot of persuasion, so the earlier we start ...

James


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