Re: Linux Wireless Mini-Summit in New Orleans -- 19-20 September

[Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org>]

Hi John,

On 09/09/2013 09:23 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 11:04:52AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
>> On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 09:39 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 03:04:29PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
>>>> Sorry, forgot to copy linux-bluetooth and linux-nfc...
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 02:54:11PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
>>>>> Greetings!
>>>>>
>>>>> This is a reminder that we will have a Linux Wireless Mini-Summit in
>>>>> New Orleans this year on 19-20 September.  This will immediately follow
>>>>> LinuxCon and will run concurrently with Linux Plumber's Conference.
>>>>> This event includes Linux developers for wireless LAN (802.11),
>>>>> Bluetooth, and NFC technologies.  Both kernel and userland developers
>>>>> are welcomed and heartily encouraged to attend!
>>>>>
>>>>> 	http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Summits/New-Orleans-2013
>>>>>
>>>>> The link above is a Wiki.  We are using it to collect discussion
>>>>> topics and to negotiate agenda/scheduling options for the event.
>>>>> Please go there to record your intent to attend the event and to
>>>>> propopse topics for discussion.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please be aware that in order to attend the event above one must
>>>>> register for either LinuxCon or for Linux Plumbers Conference.
>>>>> Act now, before those events fill-up and close their registrations!
>>>>>
>>>>> We are allotted one "large" room (up to ~80 people "theater style"), and
>>>>> two "small" rooms (up to ~25 people) for this event.  Based on history
>>>>> and the numbers of contributors, the larger room will primarily be
>>>>> for the 802.11 discussions and any "plenary" topics while the smaller
>>>>> rooms will be for Bluetooth, NFC, and any "breakout" topics.
>>>>>
>>>>> So...thoughts?  Topics to discuss?
>>>
>>> Ping?  We're now just 2 weeks away!
>>>
>>> Is our topic list complete?  It looks a bit light...
>>>
>>> Anyone have any input on scheduling the topics?  Are there any
>>> overlapping LPC sessions that it would make sense to work around?
>>
>> I'm attending though I haven't put my name on the wiki yet.
>>
>> Random thoughts; it doesn't look like any of these are covered in the
>> regular LinuxConf or LPC sessions.
>>
>> 1) State of the Union (maybe by multiple people in the same session per
>> their expertise), since perhaps not everyone doing eg 802.11 stuff knows
>> what's happening in BT or NFC land, or not everyone working on a
>> specific driver may know what new stuff their driver might need to be
>> fixed up for.  Maybe 5 minutes or less for things like:
>>
>>    * what's under the most active development right now?
>>    * upcoming new driver, hardware, and new capabilities
>>    * new 802.11 standards
>>    * and what's coming up in the next year from the standards orgs
>>    * what people will start working on soon
>>    * what will 3.13 or 3.14 look like from a wireless perspective?
>>    * 11s mesh status?
>>    * anything interesting in wpa_supplicant land?
>>    * anything new/interesting on the Android front?
>>
>> 2) Bluetooth - update about what's new and what's coming up in Bluez
>> land, and interaction with kernel 802.11 if any,
>>
>> 3) NFC - update about what's new and what's coming up in NFC land, where
>> it's getting used, what the stack looks like
>>
>> 4) What are users having the most problems with and how these problems
>> be fixed better/more quickly?  Are they driver bugs?  Are they stack
>> bugs?  Supplicant bugs?  NM/GUI/etc bugs?  Is there anything in our
>> development processes that's not working as smoothly as it could be?
>
> Thanks, Dan -- those all look like decent discussion points.
> I've added most of the points above to the topic list:
>
> 	http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Summits/New-Orleans-2013
>
> Now, we need a few volunteers...
>
> Gustavo, can you do a session on Bluetooth developments?
>
> Samuel, can you cover NFC?
>
> Jouni, would you mind doing your usual update on the standards
> activities?  Also, is there anything new/interesting to report on
> wpa_suppliant and/or hostapd?
>
> Johannes, would you cover your vision for mac80211 for the next year
> or so?  Anything in progress now that needs to be discussed?
>
> Who should cover any Android topics?
>
> Arend, Kalle, Johannes, Luca, etc -- anyone want to talk about driver
> developments and/or issues between drivers and mac80211 or other
> parts of the stack?
>
> Seth, Stanislaw, etc -- anyone want to cover issues dealing with
> supporting wireless in distributions?
>
> Dan Williams, Daniel Wagner, etc -- anyone got some user stories
> to share?

Not much news from the user front, though I could give a short
update what's happening on ConnMan if you like.

cheers,
daniel