Re: [LSFMMBPF TOPIC] Killing LSFMMBPF

[Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>]

On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 08:05:48AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> > 4) Presentations.  90% of the conference is 1-2 people standing at the front
> > of the room, talking to a room of 20-100 people, with only a few people in
> > the audience who cares.  We do our best to curate the presentations so we're
> > not wasting peoples time, but in the end I don't care what David Howells is
> > doing with mount, I trust him to do the right thing and he really just needs
> > to trap Viro in a room to work it out, he doesn't need all of us.
> 
> ... and allow the other 3-5 people who're interested or affected the
> opportunity to sit in.  Like a mailing list, but higher bandwidth.

Latency can be more unpleasant, actually - you try to discuss something between
3 people, when one is in .uk, another - in .us (east coast) and the third one -
in ,au (also east coast).  Timezone deltas - 5 hours and 8 hours, in opposite
directions...  Incidentally, that was about mount, with me and David being
two of participants; I somewhat hoped to get that sorted out at LSF, but Ian
won't be there anyway.  OTOH, that's just an 8 hours delta...