[Xen-devel] Re: Call for Proposals : XenSummit #4, Yorktown NY

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 10:59:24PM -0000, Ian Pratt wrote:
> > Call for Presentation Proposals
> > -------------------------------
> >
> > The Xen Summit, Spring '07 at IBM Watson Research, Yorktown will
> > include two full days of technical discussion and working meetings.
> > There will be opening and closing plenary sessions, and up to two
> > tracks of parallel sessions during the remainder of the meeting.  We
> > invite you to submit proposals for presentations and/or tutorials on
> > any of the topics below, or indeed any other topic of importance to
> > the Xen development community.  Note that this meeting is for
> > developers only, and is expected to address detailed technical issues.
> > Areas of interest include:
> >
> >  Xen Project roadmap
> >  Xen Security roadmap
> >  Core hypervisor roadmap
> >  x86/ia64/ppc and other ports
> >  Integrating smart I/O hardware
> >  Benchmarking and performance optimization
> >  Testing
> >  Xen Control Stack roadmap
> >  Linux Paravirt_ops and upstreaming
> >  Solaris, *BSD and other OSes
> >  Improving emulated device support
> >  SCSI, Framebuffer and other driver support
> >  Research projects using Xen
> >
> > Please send a paragraph proposing your topic and desired presentation
> > length (plan for 1/2 hour sessions) detailing the specific technical
> > area and contribution you will make.  
> >
> > As with previous summits, all the talks presented will be collected to
> > appear as PDFs on the summit web site.
> How about requiring people to submit real papers on their chosen subject,
> rather than just presentation slides ? The PDFs from papers presented
> at OLS are orders of magnitude more useful than slides we've typically
> accumulated from previous Xen summits. In particular for all those Xen
> community members who can't actually go along to the summit itself, the
> slides have very little content to learn from.
>
> I realize the time constraints until this current summit don't allow much 
> scope for long/formal writeups, but even just a few of pages of descriptive
> text or technical details on the subject could be very beneficial as a
> long term record of stuff covered at the summit.
It's often harder to write a short paper than a long one.  April is a 
pretty short run way for writing a paper and a presentation.  I do agree 
with your premise though, papers are very useful.
Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Regards,
> Dan.
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