Re: [Ksummit-discuss] "Maintainer summit" invitation discussion

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Tue, 2017-05-23 at 10:58 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> One open question mark that James mentioned is just he vendor people 
> - particularly if they end up being KS sponsors. I have actually
> traditionally liked the talks from vendors when they talk about their
> issues (as long as they were actual technical talks, not the 
> marketing stuff - that's been a disaster), but I know some people 
> found them annoying. But I think that is partly organizational and 
> ends up involving Angela etc. We've always had sponsor people at the 
> KS, I would not mind if they ended up having double roles as sponsor 
> people with actual maintainer issues that they'd like to bring up.

I'm happy to try to wrangle interesting and highly technical vendor
talks.  I believe the current time plan for the maintainer summit is
half a day (is this correct?), so I propose we do vendor talks in the
other half of the day.  That way people who aren't interested can take
the afternoon or morning (depending where people want it in the
timetable) off to see Prague.

James