So it's that time of the year again, the Linux conference season is starting up. First up is the always-excellent Ottawa Linux Symposium at the end of July. Once again, I'm giving my driver tutorial and again, if you want to attend it, please drop me an email reserving a spot. And if you want to keep the device, it will probably be about $40 Canadian.

I'm also giving the keynote this year. For some reason, after years of the conference organizers rejecting papers that I really wanted to write (like the one refuting Rusty's old "All drivers are crap" paper) and accepting boring ones, they are going to let me talk about whatever I want for a whole hour or so. Turns out this is a pretty weighty thing, and I'd like to make sure it is at least worth people showing up. So far I have a working title:

3 myths, 2 lies, and 5 truths about Linux kernel development

and a bunch of scribbles on paper that encompass way more than just 10 things. Hm, I wonder if people would be willing to send me the lies that they run across in dealing with Linux every day (and myths and truths if they have them), to make sure I mention the popular ones.

I think I can cross the one about Linux not being ready for the desktop off as everyone is covering that already...

After OLS, it's on to OSCON, where once again, I'll be giving the driver tutorial, as well as a general talk, and a speed talk.

A week or so after recovering from that, it's back to the bowels of LWE to give the driver tutorial again (see a theme here?) and then some random talk about kernel development. The LWE people are trying to rescue the conference from the grips of the marketing people by introducing real technical talks that might actually be useful to developers.

What a summer...

posted Tue, 27 Jun 2006 in [/diary]