Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Call for nominations | From | "Theodore Ts'o" <> | Date | Wed, 28 May 2008 17:34:58 -0400 |
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Hi all,
As in previous years, the program committee will consider people from a list of potential nominees. To quote from a message from Jonathan Corbet documenting the process from previous years (with a few light edits from your humble chair):
>The Kernel Summit program committee will soon start the process of >figuring out who to invite for this year's event. Feedback from past years >suggests that, to some, the invitation process looks a bit like a >smoke-filled room, cabal-building exercise. This message is an attempt to >make the selection process a bit more transparent. > >It is worth noting that the invitation-only nature of the summit, by >definition, implies that some people will be excluded. It seems inevitable >that, in a development community this large, the invitation list will fail >to include some developers whose contributions are large and who could >certainly bring something positive to the summit. That is an unfortunate >result, and one which should be minimized. It is, however, hard to see how >the meeting could be enlarged without changing its nature and causing other >important participants to drop out. So the summit is likely to remain >invitation-only, and at its current size. > >The selection algorithm has, in recent years, worked something like this: > > - A list of potential invitees is put together. Sources of names include > the previous year's list, people who have contributed to the kernel over > the previous year, and explicit nominations. Anybody is welcome to > submit nominations by sending a message to the ksummit-2008-pc > list. > > - A certain number of slots are pre-assigned. The program committee, in > its arrogance, invites itself to the event. Major sponsors for > the summit get a slot for a representative. > > - Each member of the program committee gives each potential attendee a > rating between one and five points, depending on that attendee's > perceived contribution to the event. At the end of this process, the > bulk of the slots are filled by the people getting the highest votes. > That's how people like Linus get their invitations > > - The remaining slots are filled based on discussions within the > committee. In filling these slots, an emphasis is placed on ensuring > that most major subsystems and architectures are represented and that > the people needed to discuss the anticipated hot topics will be > present. There is also an attempt to ensure that a certain amount of > "new blood" is brought in. > > - A few slots are reserved so that there is room to invite people whose > importance becomes clear as the agenda is worked out. > > - A few slots (usually 5) are also chosen from the MAINTAINERS file. > >What the committee wants to do, in the end, is to put together an event >that helps the kernel development community be active, connected, and >coherent over the coming year.
This year, we're starting a bit late (mea culpa), so I'd like to start this process going sooner rather than later. I've assembled a list of people who have contributed significantly to the kernel in recent months (since September 2007), as measured by Signed-off-by's and Acked-by's. This list also includes people who were invited to the kernel summit list year, but which didn't meet the above criteria. (Interestingly, adding previously invited kernel summit attendees only increased the list by 9.)
Obviously, this is only a starting point, and may omit some critical people, and may include people who have done nothing more than mechanical syntax changes. The latter is handled by the program committee, as described above, and the former is handled by *you*.
If you would believe there is anyone who is not on the list attached below, but which you think should be considered by the kernel summit program committee, please send nominations (self-nominations are allowed) to the ksummit-2008-pc mailing list at lists.linux-foundation.org.
Thanks, regards,
- Ted
Adrian Bunk Akinobu Mita Al Viro Alan Cox Alan Stern Alasdair G Kergon Alexey Dobriyan Alexey Starikovskiy Andi Kleen Andres Salomon Andrew Morton Andrew Vasquez Andrew Victor Aneesh Kumar K.V Anton Blanchard Anton Vorontsov Antonino Daplas Arjan van de Ven Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Arnd Bergmann Artem Bityutskiy Atsushi Nemoto Auke Kok Avi Kivity Balbir Singh Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Ben Dooks Benjamin Herrenschmidt Benjamin Thery Bjorn Helgaas Boaz Harrosh Bob Moore Borislav Petkov Bryan Wu Carsten Otte Chris Mason Chris Wright Christoph Hellwig Christoph Lameter Chuck Lever Clemens Ladisch Cornelia Huck Cyrill Gorcunov Dan Williams Daniel Lezcano Daniel Walker Dave Airlie Dave Jones David Brownell David Chinner David Gibson David Howells David S. Miller David Teigland David Woodhouse Davide Libenzi Deepak Saxena Denis Cheng Denis V. Lunev Dirk Hohndel Dmitry Torokhov Eric Dumazet Eric Miao Eric Paris Eric Sandeen Eric W. Biederman Evgeniy Polyakov FUJITA Tomonori Francois Romieu Geert Uytterhoeven Geoff Levand Gerrit Huizenga Gerrit Renker Glauber Costa Glauber de Oliveira Costa Grant Likely Greg Kroah-Hartman Greg Ungerer H. Peter Anvin Haavard Skinnemoen Hans Verkuil Harvey Harrison Heiko Carstens Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Herbert Xu Holger Schurig Hugh Dickins Ian McDonald Ilpo Järvinen Ingo Molnar Ivo van Doorn J. Bruce Fields James Bottomley James Morris Jan Beulich Jan Engelhardt Jan Kara Jarod Wilson Jaroslav Kysela Jean Delvare Jeff Dike Jeff Garzik Jeff Layton Jens Axboe Jeremy Fitzhardinge Jeremy Kerr Jesper Juhl Jiri Kosina Jiri Slaby Joe Perches Joel Becker Johannes Berg John W. Linville Jonathon Corbet Josh Boyer Julia Lawall KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Kay Sievers Kristen Carlson Accardi Krzysztof Helt Kumar Gala Kyle McMartin Lachlan McIlroy Len Brown Lennert Buytenhek Li Zefan Linus Torvalds Maciej W. Rozycki Magnus Damm Marcin Slusarz Mark Brown Mark Fasheh Mark Lord Mark M. Hoffman Martin Schwidefsky Mathieu Desnoyers Matthew Garrett Matthew Mackall Matthew Wilcox Mauro Carvalho Chehab Mel Gorman Michael Buesch Michael Chan Michael Ellerman Michael Hennerich Michael Krufky Michael Wu Mike Christie Mike Frysinger Mike Isely Mike Travis Miklos Szeredi Mingming Cao Neil Brown Nick Piggin Nicolas Pitre Oleg Nesterov Oliver Neukum Olof Johansson Paolo Ciarrocchi Patrick McHardy Paul Mackerras Paul Menage Paul Mundt Pavel Emelyanov Pavel Machek Peter Zijlstra Pierre Ossman Rafael J. Wysocki Ralf Baechle Ralph Campbell Randy Dunlap Reinette Chatre Rene Herman Richard Purdie Robert P. J. Day Roel Kluin Roland Dreier Roland McGrath Ron Rindjunsky Russell King Rusty Russell Sam Ravnborg Scott Wood Sebastian Siewior Sergei Shtylyov Stefan Richter Stefan Roese Stefano Brivio Stephen Hemminger Stephen Rothwell Steve French Steve Hemminger Steven Rostedt Steven Toth Steven Whitehouse Suparna Bhattacharya Takashi Iwai Tejun Heo Theodore Ts'o Thomas Bogendoerfer Thomas Gleixner Tim Shimmin Tom Tucker Tomas Winkler Tony Lindgren Tony Luck Trent Piepho Trond Myklebust Venkatesh Pallipadi Vlad Yasevich YOSHIFUJI Hideaki Yinghai Lu Yoichi Yuasa Zach Brown Zhang Rui Zhu Yi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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