Hi, On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:14:17AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:45:02AM -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Definitely disagree with that. I'd like to see the conference somewhere > > else different this time - perhaps Czech Republic, or somewhere else more > > easterly and Linux active (or even Finland...) > > > > Understand that one of the feedback that I get from the keepers of the > corporate travel budgets is that money for sending employees to exotic > locations is finite --- which is why we haven't tried pairing the > kernel summit with linux.conf.au. Cambridge works out because there > are relatively cheap flights to Amsterdam and then you can take a > cheap Ryan Air flight to Stanisted. Still, the fact that it isn't > paired with another conference means that we are getting some > expressions of unhappiness from other Kernel Summit stakeholders. > It's for that reason that (a) I'm trying to line up some folks who > might be interested in trying to put together a relatively small, > 2-day technical conference after the Kernel Summit, which can > hopefully serve as a seed for something like OLS and LCA in UK/Europe, > and (b) I've told folks that the moving it away from Cambridge is a > one-time experiment, after which point we will re-evaluate. >
Wrt, point (a), UKUUG are moving their UK based Summer Linux conference to coincide timewise with the kernel summit. Normally its in the July/August time frame. Location probably, but last I heard from Alasdair Kergon not certain to be, in Cambridge, Steve. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/