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From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
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Hi Julia,

On Thursday 20 Apr 2017 07:44:14 Julia Lawall wrote:
> > I'd definitely like to see an "issues that affect casual/occasional
> > contributors" discussion; it wouldn't really fit the maintainer summit,
> > but I like James' suggestion of doing it as part of the attached
> > LinuxCon.
> 
> I would be happy to help with the organization of such a thing.

Given Daniel Vetter's point that no single conference will cover a wide enough 
audience, I've been thinking of trying to gather feedback from a larger 
audience beforehand that could be be used as material for a LinuxCon EU kernel 
track round table session. If that idea gets traction, help will definitely be 
more than welcome.

> > In terms of framing, though, I'd suggest keeping it focused on "what
> > issues have you personally encountered or directly observed", rather
> > than "what random process ideas do you have".  The latter would go
> > downhill very quickly; the former seems much more likely to produce
> > productive feedback on real problems.  (It's less important that they
> > come with potential solutions than that the relevant problems get
> > recorded for subsequent consideration.)
> > 
> > Will the maintainer summit occur *after* the overlapped conference, or
> > *before*?  If after, then it'd be plausible to have a "let's talk about
> > what we heard" session in the maintainer summit.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart