Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please get better audio.

Albert D. Cahalan
2001-04-18T02:47:09Z

Theodore Tso writes:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:53:19PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:

>> It does not work in a relaxed "people sit at tables and comment
>> at arbitrary points in time during a talk" setting such as the
>> kernel summit. Besides putting a microphone at every table (which
>> isn't all that practical honestly) I can't come up with a solution.
>
> I suspect that if we're going to do this again, having a microphone at
> each table is what we'd have to do, assuming that we can keep the
> numbers of people at the workshop down to 60-70 (which will be a *lot*
> harder next time, since everyone and his brother will want to show up,
> and will therefore pester, whine, and otherwise beg the workshop
> organizers to be included onto the invite list).

Nah, my brother does Java.

Being an outsider, I'm still trying to find out WTF happened
on friday evening when NUMA was discussed. I can't find any
video, audio, or even technical notes. This sucks; I'm writing
support for NUMA hardware (it's not cache coherent) right now
and I don't have any idea where things will be going.

> If we have a lot more people, we'll probably have to go to the two
> microphones in the aisle approach. But at that point a large part of
> the workshop will be destroyed; so hopefully we'll just be able to
> keep the numbers of people in the workshop to manageable number.

You can have 90% of the people invited to one day only.