Re: [dpdk-announce] Plan for European and USA DPDK Summits

The agenda for the DPDK Summit Userspace event in Dublin is available now at: https://dpdksummit.com/. We had far more proposals than we could fit in, so it was difficult to decide which ones to include. We tried to prioritise the key technical topics that should generate some discussion/debate at the event. If you're planning to attend and haven't already done so, you should register via https://dpdksummit.com/.

For our DPDK Summit North America event, you can now register and submit presentation proposals at: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/dpdk-north-america-summit. The event is on November 14th and 15th at Club Auto Sport in San Jose. The CFP closes on Wednesday October 4th.

-----Original Message-----
From: O'Driscoll, Tim
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 10:06 AM
To: O'Driscoll, Tim <redacted>; announce@dpdk.org
Subject: RE: Plan for European and USA DPDK Summits

For anybody attending the DPDK Summit Userspace event in Dublin, we now
have a discounted rate of €169 per night set up with the Clayton Hotel.
To get this you can book via the hotel website
(https://www.claytonhotelballsbridge.com/) and enter a code of
KTSE260917. The discounted rate only applies on Monday 25th and Tuesday
26th Sept. The rate is available until 10th September. Anybody booking
after that will get the regular rate. If you have any problems using
this, or if you've already booked at a higher rate and want to ask about
changing, you can call (+353-1-668-1111) or email
(reservations.ballsbridge@claytonhotels.com) the hotel.

Also, a reminder that the CFP closes on Friday, so if you're planning to
submit a proposal please do so at:
https://dpdksummit.com/AbstractProposalSubmission.aspx. Finally, if you
haven't registered yet, please do so at:
https://dpdksummit.com/us/en/registration-userspace.

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-----Original Message-----
From: announce [mailto:announce-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of
O'Driscoll, Tim
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2017 3:36 PM
To: announce@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-announce] Plan for European and USA DPDK Summits

For anybody planning to attend our DPDK Summit Userspace event in

Dublin

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(September 26/27), registration is now open at:

https://dpdksummit.com/.

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The CFP for this event is also now open. You can submit presentation
proposals at: https://dpdksummit.com/AbstractProposalSubmission.aspx.
The deadline for submissions is Friday August 25th.

Since this is a technical conference aimed at DPDK software

developers,

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proposals should focus on the main technical challenges for the

project,

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including things like:
- New APIs, libraries and features
- DPDK changes required to facilitate hardware acceleration
- Technical challenges facing the DPDK community, including parts of

the

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code that need to be refactored
- Improvements to interworking with the Linux kernel
- Improvements to performance, usability and packaging
- Virtualization and container networking
- Innovative networking technologies such as P4, and their impact on
DPDK

Another thing to consider when submitting proposals is that Userspace

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an interactive event where we focus more on discussion and less on
presentation. Ideally, we're looking for topics where somebody can

give

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a short presentation to introduce a topic and describe the main
technical challenges, and then lead a discussion where the rest of the
community can give their views and we can try to reach agreement on

the

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next steps. A great example from last year was the session Olivier
presented on the mbuf changes.

At the moment, Trishan (our Linux Foundation Project Manager) is

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with the Governing Board and the Technical Board to create a working
group for planning/managing DPDK events. We'll use a subset of that
working group to review presentation proposals and finalise the

agenda.

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-----Original Message-----
From: announce [mailto:announce-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of
O'Driscoll, Tim
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 12:09 PM
To: announce@dpdk.org
Subject: [dpdk-announce] Plan for European and USA DPDK Summits

A few people have been asking about the dates for our European
(Userspace) and USA DPDK Summits, so I wanted to send an update on

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status. Planning for these is a little behind where we've been in
previous years, because we needed to complete the transition to the

LF

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and get the governing board in place before the dates and budgets

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be agreed.

For Europe, we're planning the following:
Date: Tuesday September 26 & Wednesday September 27
Venue: The Clayton Hotel, Ballsbridge, Dublin (same venue as last

year)

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Attendance: Like previous years, it will be limited to ~100 in order

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keep the event as interactive as possible.

For the USA, the details are:
Date: Tuesday November 14 & Wednesday November 15
Venue: Club Auto Sport, 521 Charcot Ave, San Jose, CA 95131

Both of these are now listed on http://dpdk.org/events.

Planning for both of these events (finalizing contracts with the

venues

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etc.) is still in progress, so they're not 100% confirmed yet (i.e.
don't book travel yet just in case there are any last minute

changes).

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As soon as everything is confirmed we'll send links to start
registration and CFP for both of these. In the meantime, I'd

encourage

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people to start thinking about topics they'd like to present.


Tim