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

[Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>]

Hi Marcel, John,

On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 13:48 -0700, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> >>>> 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?
> 
> I can do the Bluetooth part and I am just volunteering Samuel for NFC ;)
Thanks Marcel for the initiative ;)
John, I'll do the NFC part, sorry for not being able to reply earlier.

Cheers,
Samuel.