Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:24:06 -0400
From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RFC/CFP -- Linux Wireless (802.11/Bluetooth/NFC) Mini-Summit 2012
 (Barcelona?)
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Greetings!

For the past several years, Linux wireless LAN developers have held
"mini-summit" events to bring us together face-to-face.  This has
helped us to develop better working relationships with one and another
and to resolve certain issues that would have been much more difficult
to resolve strictly over email and IRC.

For some time we have discussed combining these events with similar
gatherings of Bluetooth developers.  Now that NFC has an in-kernel
Linux presence, it makes sense to include them as well.  So, we
are hoping to have a joint mini-summit event along the lines of the
KVM Forum or the Linux File System, Storage, and Memory Management
Summit events.

A number of wireless developers reside in Europe, but our last few
meetings have been held in North America.  So, there is a strong desire
to have a European location for this event.  Initial contact with the
Linux Foundation suggests that we can co-locate this event with the
LinuxCon Europe event in Barcelona this November.  Other suggestions
are welcome as well, of course.

If we join the LinuxCon Europe event, we would need to decide how to
fund the event.  One option would be to charge a separate entry fee for
the mini-summit event, seperate from the LinuxCon EU fee.  Those that
do not wish to attend LinuxCon EU may find that attractive.  OTOH,
in the past we have simply said that all the mini-summit attendees
had to register for the sponsoring event.  That has worked reasonably
well, especially since event speakers would be eligible to attend
the mini-summit for no fee.  I would lean toward keeping that approach.

Given the potential to expand this into a larger event, we would
likely need to be somewhat more formal about having proposals for
speaking slots.  In that case, we might require a program committee
for reviewing proposals, etc.  Anyone interested in participating in
speaking at the mini-summit or in reviewing speaking proposals should
contact me or reply in this thread.

Well, that's about it -- let's kick this off!

John
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