On Sat 12-12-20 17:29:57, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 10:48:53AM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote:

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We on the program committee hope everybody has been able to stay safe and
healthy during this challenging time, and look forward to being able to see
all of you in person again when it is safe.

The current plans for LSFMMBPF 2021 are to schedule an in person conference
in H2 (after June) of 2021.  The tentative plan is to use the same hotel
that we had planned to use for 2020, as we still have contracts with them.
However clearly that is not set in stone.  The Linux Foundation has done a
wonderful job of working with us to formulate a plan and figure out the
logistics that will work the best for everybody, I really can't thank them
enough for their help.

Thank you all for doing your best in the face of this disruption.  I
really appreciate all the work you're putting in, and I can't wait to
see you all again in person.

I hosted a Zoom call yesterday on the topic of Page Folios, and uploaded
the video.

Thanks for organizing this. I couldn't attent directly but I have
watched the video. I think this was a useful meeting.

There was interest expressed in the call on doing a follow-up
call on the topic of GUP (get_user_pages and friends).  It would probably
also be good to have meetings on other topics.

I hope I will have time to join this one.

I don't want this to be seen in any way as taking away from LSFMMBPF.
I see Zoom calls as an interim solution to not having face-to-face
meetings.

Agreed!

I'd like to solicit feedback from this group on:

 - Time of day.  There is no good time that suits everyone around
   the world.  With developers in basically every inhabited time zone, the
   call will definitely take place in the middle of somebody's night, and
   during somebody else's normal family time.  Publishing the recordings
   helps ameliorate some of this, but I feel we should shift the time
   around.  Having it at the same time of day helps people fit it into
   their schedule of other meetings (and meals), but I think the benefits
   of allowing more people to participate live outweighs the costs.

Hard question without any good answer. You can rotate preferred timezone
which should spread the suffering.

 - Schedule.  Friday's probably a bad day to have it, as it ends up
   being Saturday for some people.  It can move around the week too.
   Also, probably wise to not have it over Christmas as most developers
   have that period as family time.

Yes, Friday tends to be not great. I think mid week should work better
as the overalap 

 - Topics.  I'm sure there's no shortage of things to discuss!  I'm
   happy to organise meetings for people even on topics I have no direct
   interest in.

Thanks for organizing this. I am pretty sure poeple will land on topics
either in the call or over email.

And most urgently, when should we have the GUP meeting? On the call,
I suggested Friday the 8th of January, but I'm happy to set something
up for next week if we'd like to talk more urgently.

I am unlikely to be able to join before the end of year so if you ask
me.

Thanks again and fingers crossed we can actually have a face to face
meeting sometimes during next year.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs