Re: 2012 Kernel Summit: Call for Participation: 2nd CALL

[Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:11:12AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, guys.
> 
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:19:22AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > The annual Kernel Summit for 2012 will be held on the 3 days preceding the
> > Linux Foundation LinuxCon and Linux Plumbers Conference at the Sheraton San
> > Diego Hotel and Marina from 27-29 August:
> 
> First of all, thank you very much for doing the hard work of
> organizing KS for all these years.
> 
> One issue that I sometimes have with KS is that it often coincides
> with (or falls very close to) Korean Thanksgiving which is 15th day of
> 8th month on the lunar calendar which, this year, falls on Sept 30th.
> This is one of the two biggest traditional holidays in Korea (three
> day holiday thing w/ a lot of the population moving for family
> gatherings) making traveling for conferences somewhat difficult.
> 
> Interestingly, China doesn't seem to have that as thanksgiving but
> moon festival, which may be a smaller deal and the population affected

Yes. We have Moon Festival (Sept 30th this year) and fortunately it
impacts far less than the Spring Festival, whose travel experiences
are horrible:

        Spring Festival travel season
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunyun
        http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/mediafile/201201/08/F201201081134452033422106.jpg

        The period usually begins 15 days before the Lunar New Year's Day and
        lasts for around 40 days. The number of passenger journeys during the
        Chunyun period has exceeded the population of China, hitting over 2
        billion in 2008.[1] It has been called the largest annual human
        migration in the world.[12]

linux.conf.au happens to be in that period...

> by this schedule may be too small to matter.  Is it just me?  Any
> other Koreans coming to KS this year?.
> 
> Depending on the number of people affected and if at all possible, it
> would be nice to avoid such big holidays.  So, have fun, guys.

Hope you enjoy the holidays all the same!

Thanks,
Fengguang