Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:56086 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751254AbeAENQB (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jan 2018 08:16:01 -0500 Subject: Re: NO Connectathon for 2018 ... To: Bill Baker , nfsv4@ietf.org Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org References: From: Steve Dickson Message-ID: <31b3f350-1fdb-d788-245f-e2a408a7601e@RedHat.com> Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 08:15:59 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello, On 01/03/2018 12:25 PM, Bill Baker wrote: > > Greetings, > > After 40 years (!), I am sad to say that connectathon is > canceled for 2018. > > Please watch these mailing lists for more information regarding > the return of a second NFSv4 bake-a-thon in addition to the one > hosted by RedHat towards the end of September in Westford, MA. > > I've updated the connectathon website to reflect the cancellation: > > http://www.connectathon.info > > Feel free to forward this to other interested parties. > > Long live NFS, This is very sad it hear... I did enjoy my yearly pilgrimage to the west coast. I remember my first cthon, I was working for Lachman Associates, sponsored by SCO, since we where selling them the both the NFS and TCP stacks back in the day... I think the only version of Linux at that point was Slackware. I remember my first cthon with Red Hat... A one person booth with at least 4 or 5 desktop stack on each other... before the days of vitalization... A bit tight... but I did "borrow" one of the nice chairs from the NOC. ;-) Who can forget the light bulb incident. A huge light from the ceiling, in the Sun campus, let loose and hit the chair I should have been sitting in... So I can honestly say that cthon almost kill me! 8-) Then of course those dinners... I remember Beepy being so thrilled that Red Hat would actually pick up a night cap! But of course that was after his very expensive dinner... Trond definitely took care a few of those as well... Plus a few of my Red Hat colleges did learn about alligator arms! Nothing but good!!! :-) Definitely an end of a era... Sad.. Red Hat will continue to host interoperability events, but we need to grow the server participation with the likes of Vmware, Microsoft, Dell/EMC as well as any other server vendors that are out there... Suggestions welcome! steved.