Re: Netconf at conf.au 2008?

["Andy Johnson" <johnsonzjo@gmail.com>]

Hello,
Sorry to hear that; I believe many would want to attend netconf in case
it was a part of LCA08. I must add that I followed some of the presentations
slides of netconf from recent years and it seemed very interesting and
very advanced.
I also watched the "Linux IPSEC Scaling" video (available on the internet)
from  LCA 2007 and found it really interesting . (I don't think that there is
any video from netconf conferences from recent years).
I wish that in LCA09 things will be different.


(And of course I did not mean any netconf stuff from martin krafft,
which I already knew before)
Regards,
Andy




On Jan 14, 2008 4:08 AM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Glen Turner <gdt@gdt.id.au>
> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:23:45 +1030
>
> >
> > On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 08:52 +0200, Andy Johnson wrote:
> > > I saw somewhere (maybe in this mailing list a while ago) that there
> > > might be a  Linux Kernel Developers' Netconf conference  at conf.au
> > > 2008.
> > >
> > > Does anyone here know if  such a thing is planned ?
> >
> > I don't know.
>
> We wanted to do a netconf in Sydney right before LCA08, but an unnamed
> company with a multi billion dollar market capitalization that uses
> Linux networking technology on thousands upon thounsands of their
> servers didn't want to pony up for some funding to cover airfare and
> hotel expenses for several of the attendees.  They wanted to provide
> nothing more than a conference room and then get their names in bright
> lights so they could say they "sponsored" netconf.
>
> So, no, there will be no netconf at LCA08.  But many of us will be
> there anyways and chatting in any event :-)
>
> Thanks for the offer for the network pipe.  I'm not interested
> personally as I like to relax during the conference not hack actively
> on anything too seriously.  I'm there to present, keep up semi
> regularly with my email, and chat with folks.
>
> Now, if this were available outside of the conference so that we could
> play with it remotely from where we work, that's more interesting.
>