Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Landsberg, Alex (Alex_Landsberg(at)icomverse.com) > wrote: > > > I'm still in touch with Moshe Bar. > > Moshe wants to invite Andrea Arcangeli to IGLU to give a talk. > > Andrea Arcangeliis one of the > > top three or four kernel hackers. He recently completely rewrote the VM > > in kernel 2.4.10 and did the Linux for ccNUMA adaptations, the SMP > > scheduler, the zerocopy network stack, the big memory addressing and the > > CPU affinity. > > > > Who should I contact ? As I have been out of touch for the past few months. > > me too. I'm forwarding this to the IGLU cabal, and hope someone decides > to take it from there. AFAIK. there are some occasional meetings at BIU > but no IGLU meetings since the last Moshe Bar in January.
1) BIU meetings have been announced several times. Each time the announcement was followed by a cancellation, reasons unspecified, IIRC. Did I miss anything? 2) It seems that the main logistical problems are a) facilities, b) speakers. I don't know which problem caused the cancellations of BIU meetings in the past. I don't know I'll stick my neck out to guess that if a speaker is available and if there is someone who can get a venue with a projector, a board, and some chairs (like Alex or Ira, both of whom did it so many times to great satisfaction and appreciation of all the participants), and an announcement is made on the mailing list and on the web site, there will be a decent audience. At least that was always the case in the past - I don't recall a meeting that was a failure in this respect. 3) The people who are subscribed to Moshe's mailing list learned about Andrea's accomplishments in 2.4.10 from a recent mailing. Not being and expert, I'd love to have him here. 4) The last several meetings (unless I did miss a BIU one) were at Compaq. Alex, what is it about (at)icomverse? Weren't you at Compaq? Aren't you at HP? ;-) In any case, is it possible to organize a meeting at whatever company you work at? That would solve problem 2a. At the moment, it does not seem that anyone else at IGLU can handle the logistics. Personally, I have no access to venue or facilities for the noble purpose, much as I would like to help out. I can only promise my attendance, barring unusual circumstances. Is Andrea going to visit Israel any time soon? That would be a wonderful opportunity for IGLU, and will solve problem 2b. If he has no independent plans to visit Israel, I don't see how we can sponsor a dedicated trip from Italy to here. 5) If one way or another the logistics are solved, announcing should be simple enough (and handled by just about anyone on the list), and there will likely be a lot of interest. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If it ain't broken, it has not got enough features yet." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives available at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
