I saw this in LWN, figured it might be of interest here: There will be a Tracing Summit August 20 in Seattle, WA, colocated with LinuxCon. "Now organized by the Linux Foundation Diagnostic and Monitoring Workgroup (http://diamon.org), this event focuses on the tracing area, gathering people involved in development and end-users of tracing tools as well as trace analysis tools. The main target of this Tracing Summit is to provide room for discussion between people in the various areas that benefit from tracing, namely parallel, distributed and/or real-time systems, as well as kernel development." The call for proposals ends June 19.
http://diamon.org/events/#id_372
