2011 Linux Symposium Call for Participation
June 13-15th, 2011
Ottawa, Canada
The 2011 Linux Symposium Programme Committee invites you to submit a content proposal for the 2011 Linux Symposium taking place June 13-15th in Ottawa, Canada. The Symposium since 1999 has provided a vendor neutral and open environment for Linux contributors, developers, administrators, and enthusiasts to gather and discuss openly the latest developments and with the goal of building the sense of community amongst developers by providing in-person discussion and socialization time that is very important for a community as geographically and culturally diverse as the Linux community.
Tracks & Topics
There are no limitations on the topics you may submit proposals on. The following "tracks" list some sample topics to help give you an idea of the kinds of things we are interested in but they are no means a complete listing.
Linux Kernel developments in, Drivers, NUMA, File Systems, Virtualization, Tracing, and Networking.
Infrastructure including things Cloud Computing, Clusters, infrastructure such as DBUS, gypsy, Geoclue, emerging sensor APIs, etc.
Userspace development as a track is new this year and we would like to see proposals covering development tools, as well as some on hot topics in application development including on the desktop.
Embedded Linux topics including Android, Moblin, OpenEmbedded, and many other approaches to Linux on tablets, consumer electronics and industrial uses. There has been a surge of demand for more embedded content this year this however does not mean we are not looking for "big iron" topics as well.
Miscellaneous including but not limited to Security, System Administration, practical applications, end users, political issues, developing world computing issues, etc.
Session Types
We are seeking submissions for Summits, Paper Presentations, Tutorials, Panel Discussions, Lightning Talks, and Bird of a Feather Sessions.
Summits are events co-located with the Linux Symposium, in the past we have hosted the Wireless Summit, Tracing Summit, and many others. If you have a Linux related event we can provide space for from 20 to 200 (or more) attendees.
Paper Presentations are 45 minute presentations of technical papers included in the event proceedings. Presenters with accepted paper proposals are not required to pay for registration.
Tutorials are half-day practical educational sessions on a wide variety of topics. There is no paper required for a tutorial session. Presenters with accepted tutorials are not required to pay for registration.
Panel Discussions are setup as interactive sessions to discuss a particular topic, you will need to provide a list of the proposed "Panel of Experts" in your proposal. Organizers of panel discussions are not required to pay registration but those participating need to register as usual.
Lightning Talks are short 10 minute presentations with no paper or slide component. An excellent way to give a quick update on the status of a project or introduce a new concept to generate buzz. As lightning talks have no paper or other requirements we ask that presenters register to attend the event as usual.
Bird of a Feather Sessions are free-form 1 hour meetings for people of similar interests to get together and discuss a particular topic. If you are hosting a BoFS you will also need to register to attend as usual.
What to Submit
Abstract
You will need to prepare a short description of your proposed presentation to present to the Programme Committee for review. If accepted your abstract will be the description placed on the website and in the event programme guide. If you have multiple ideas please submit multiple abstracts. Your abstract must not exceed 300 words.
Example Paper Presentation Abstract
Linux is becoming the operating system of choice in many embedded applications. While there are many differences between developing native Linux on a quad processor system with 16Gig of Memory and 250Gig of RAID storage and developing a cross compiled Linux for a processor that costs less than the price of a good sandwich, limited to 16Meg of SDRAM, and 4 Meg of Flash, there are many things that are exactly the same.
Example Tutorial Abstract
This tutorial will teach the attendees what kind of Linux based networked systems are possible to deploy using low cost hardware and open source software. Every person will be given a device at the beginning of the class and by the end they will have created and debugged a few different devices. Knowledge of building and running a standard Kernel and an understanding of C is required.
Biography
You will also need to prepare a short biography to submit with your proposal. There is a 150 word limit. Your biography should look like:
Example Biography
Greg Kroah-Hartman is the current Linux kernel maintainer for more driver subsystems than he wants to admit. Along with maintaining the driver core, sysfs, kobject, kref, and debugfs code. He also helped start the linux-hotplug and udev projects while being one half of the kernel stable maintainer team. He is employed by SuSE Labs / Novell performing various kernel related things for them. Greg is the author of "Linux Kernel in a Nutshell", the co-author of "Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition" and a contributing editor for Linux Journal.
Papers
Details for paper format and submission are available on the Linux Symposium website at http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2011/guide.php
Deadlines
Proposals from February 1st, 2011 until March 15th.
Committee Review - The review committee does it's best to review and send out notifications as quickly as possible. Our goal is to be finished by March 25th. There are usually a small number of proposals that require additional questions and deliberation which may take longer to receive notification.
Final papers must be submitted by May 15th, 2010.
Publication Rights
The conference requires non-exclusive publication rights to submitted papers including the publication of audio and video proceedings. Copyright is retained by the author. We do ask that we be the first organisation to publish any given paper.
The wording taken directly from the published proceedings reads as follows: "Authors retain copyright to all submitted papers, but have granted unlimited redistribution rights to all as a condition of submission."
Language
The official language of the event is English and papers must be submitted in proofread English.
Programme Committee
James Bottomley, Novell
Dave Jones, Red Hat
Matthew Galgoci, Red Hat
Andrew Hutton, Linux Symposium
Andi Kleen, Firstfloor.org
Matthew Wilson
Event Promotion
Please share this Call for Participation with anyone you feel would be interested in the event, we would love to know where you are promoting the event and encourage you to send us a note at info at linuxsymposium.org when you post about the event.