Re: [LSFMMBPF TOPIC] long live LFSMMBPF

Chris Mason
2020-03-06T19:56:55Z

On 6 Mar 2020, at 14:41, James Bottomley wrote:

> On Fri, 2020-03-06 at 14:27 -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
>> On 6 Mar 2020, at 9:35, Josef Bacik wrote:
> [...]
>>> 4) Planning becomes much simpler. I've organized miniconf's at
>>> plumbers before, it is far simpler than LSFMMBPF. You only have
>>> to worry about one thing, is this presentation useful. I no longer
>>> have to worry about am I inviting the right people, do we have
>>> enough money to cover the space. Is there enough space for
>>> everybody? Etc.
>>
>> We’ve talked about working closely with KS, Plumbers and the
>> Linuxfoundation to make a big picture map of the content and
>> frequency for these confs.
>
> And, lest anyone think we all operate in isolation, we do get together
> periodically to discuss venues, selection and combination. The last
> big in-person meeting on this topic was at Plumbers in Vancouver in
> 2019, where we had Plumbers, KS/MS, LSF/MM and the LF conference
> people
> all represented.

Yeah, there’s a lot of cross-over between all the PCs, so we have lots
of chances to talk it through.

>
>> I’m sure Angela is having a busy few weeks, but lets work with
>> her
>> to schedule this and talk it through. OSS is a good fit in terms of
>> being flexible enough to fit us in, hopefully we can make that work.
>
> And, for everyone who gave us feedback in the Plumbers surveys that
> co-
> locating with a big conference is *not* what you want because of
> various problems like hallway track disruptions due to other
> conference
> traffic and simply the difficulty of finding people, the current model
> under consideration is one conference organization (the LF) but two
> separate venues, sort of like OpenStack used to do for their big
> conference and design summit to minimize disruption and increase
> developer focus.
>

Agreed, but I do like the idea of doing the plenary in the bigger
conference sessions.

-chris