From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: Call for Proposals : XenSummit #4, Yorktown NY Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:59:33 -0600 Message-ID: <45DC7A75.3010709@codemonkey.ws> References: <8A87A9A84C201449A0C56B728ACF491E0B9AD3@liverpoolst.ad.cl.cam.ac.uk> <20070221165551.GH7306@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070221165551.GH7306@redhat.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Cc: Ian Pratt , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, summit-talks@xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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.