Re: Call for Proposals : XenSummit #4, Yorktown NY

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 10:59:24PM -0000, Ian Pratt wrote:
>> Call for Presentation Proposals
>> -------------------------------
>>
>> The Xen Summit, Spring '07 at IBM Watson Research, Yorktown will
>> include two full days of technical discussion and working meetings.
>> There will be opening and closing plenary sessions, and up to two
>> tracks of parallel sessions during the remainder of the meeting.  We
>> invite you to submit proposals for presentations and/or tutorials on
>> any of the topics below, or indeed any other topic of importance to
>> the Xen development community.  Note that this meeting is for
>> developers only, and is expected to address detailed technical issues.
>> Areas of interest include:
>>
>>  Xen Project roadmap
>>  Xen Security roadmap
>>  Core hypervisor roadmap
>>  x86/ia64/ppc and other ports
>>  Integrating smart I/O hardware
>>  Benchmarking and performance optimization
>>  Testing
>>  Xen Control Stack roadmap
>>  Linux Paravirt_ops and upstreaming
>>  Solaris, *BSD and other OSes
>>  Improving emulated device support
>>  SCSI, Framebuffer and other driver support
>>  Research projects using Xen
>>
>> Please send a paragraph proposing your topic and desired presentation
>> length (plan for 1/2 hour sessions) detailing the specific technical
>> area and contribution you will make.  
>>
>> As with previous summits, all the talks presented will be collected to
>> appear as PDFs on the summit web site.
> 
> How about requiring people to submit real papers on their chosen subject,
> rather than just presentation slides ? The PDFs from papers presented
> at OLS are orders of magnitude more useful than slides we've typically
> accumulated from previous Xen summits. In particular for all those Xen
> community members who can't actually go along to the summit itself, the
> slides have very little content to learn from.
> 
> I realize the time constraints until this current summit don't allow much 
> scope for long/formal writeups, but even just a few of pages of descriptive
> text or technical details on the subject could be very beneficial as a
> long term record of stuff covered at the summit.

It's often harder to write a short paper than a long one.  April is a 
pretty short run way for writing a paper and a presentation.  I do agree 
with your premise though, papers are very useful.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Regards,
> Dan.