From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Langhoff Subject: Re: git/cogito workshop/bof at linuxconf au? Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 11:05:45 +1200 Message-ID: <46a038f905081316056e83ebec@mail.gmail.com> References: <46a038f90508130034858ad34@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: GIT X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Aug 14 01:06:10 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E454g-0005Su-Ev for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 01:05:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932393AbVHMXFv (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 19:05:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932397AbVHMXFv (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 19:05:51 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.192]:42049 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932393AbVHMXFu convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 19:05:50 -0400 Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i8so616559rne for ; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:05:45 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=pwOtxEQaUvROscIJpKja6tUzht5SEqqilNnvUnx260J08RWy8HN8xUGFpU4ZPpx36Sk+i9TQlPci/xHt0pMmqNk5J0Yx/uQGfV7wOe/Tqr3hom4d6yQRnVhW2QgS7eND3pjYwx9BIvYXIO7dl39/32NY2tiM2ZOhz8kTNRzJgoY= Received: by 10.38.78.22 with SMTP id a22mr1492524rnb; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:05:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.101.8 with HTTP; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:05:45 -0700 (PDT) To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On 8/14/05, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I was planning to be there. I like lca, but passed it over this year > because of it being in Canberra And how are things lining up for the upcoming one (January 2006, Dunedin, NZ)? > > I would gladly try and organize a workshop, but I am far from fluent > > with git, so I won't go at it alone. Any takers? Call for papers ends > > 5th September, not too far ahead. We have to register our interest > > _now_. > > I'm no good with papers, though. Workshops and BOFs don't need to be paper-backed at all. Though it's not unlikely that someone with an interest in SCM theory would write a paper covering git. I think the main interest would be to bring git practical usage to the masses. There's a lot of interest, but the barriers of entry are somewhat high, with the codebase moving fast, and some of the concepts requiring re-learning of what to expect from an SCM. Perhaps no so much among kernel hackers, but the general populace is largely still laden with cvs/svn and their mindset. cheers, martin