Author Archives: Nivedita Singhvi

Speaker announcements update

The LPC Program Committee has made its first selections and speaker notifications are underway. The runners for the microconferences will be notifying their selected participants privately, and we expect to send out microconference announcements once that process completes.
We will also be notifying speakers selected for the General Track over the next two days.
However, please note [...]

Submissions closed – Thank you!

Submissions to Linux Plumbers Conference 09 are now closed.
Thank you to everybody who submitted – we had an overwhelming response! Author notification will go out July 15th. Whether you’re presenting or not, we hope to see you at the conference – our success is as dependent on the [...]

Deadline for proposal submissions is almost upon us!

UPDATE: Deadline submission extended to midnight, June 22nd, PT.
If you haven’t submitted yet, you’ll need to get cracking!  Submissions close at midnight, June 22nd, PT.
The latest update cross posted from LWN:
Please submit your abstracts using the “Submit a proposal” button on the right.
We now have runners for additional tracks:
1. Inter-Distributor [...]

Room rates and LPC/LinuxCon joint registration discount

If you are registering for Plumbers you will receive a 30% discount to LinuxCon! Once you have registered for Plumbers, your “Thank you!” page will provide you with a discount code you can use when registering for LinuxCon.
Also note that the room rate for the conference hotel (the Portland Waterfront Marriott) is now $143/night. You [...]

Keynote and speaker announcements

The Linux Plumbers Conference is pleased to announce our keynote invitees and other speakers lined up so far.
Keynotes

Vivek Kundra, Federal CIO – [live via video, with real time Q&A]
(Invitee, To Be Confirmed closer to conference)

Keith Packard, Intel, X Window guru

Tutorials

Linus Torvalds, Advanced git tutorial

Thank you to everyone who has submitted proposals! A reminder [...]

Linux Plumbers Conf 2009 Registration is Now Open!

We’re pleased to announce that registration is now open for LPC 2009!  You can  go here to register.

Call for Topics posted at LWN

Paul McKenney has posted a Call for Topics (CFT) over at Linux Weekly News. The Program Committee for LPC 2009 is hoping to collect  areas of interest [conflict? ] that would serve as interesting and useful microconference topics. There has been some interest and conversation there already, and we hope to receive more prior [...]