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Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.237451, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: On 3/6/20 9:35 AM, Josef Bacik wrote: > Hello, >=20 > This has been a topic that I've been thinking about a lot recently, mos= tly=20 > because of the giant amount of work that has been organizing LSFMMBPF.=C2= =A0 I was=20 > going to wait until afterwards to bring it up, hoping that maybe it was= just me=20 > being done with the whole process and that time would give me a differe= nt=20 > perspective, but recent discussions has made it clear I'm not the only = one. >=20 > LSFMMBPF is not useful to me personally, and not an optimal use of the=20 > communities time.=C2=A0 The things that we want to get out of LSFMMBPF = are (generally) It has been pointed out to me that this appears to make it sound like I t= hink=20 the whole conference is useless. I would like to make it clear that this= is not=20 the case at all. This is still the only conference that I make sure to m= ake it=20 to every year, because all of the reasons I list. The point of me posting this is to get us to put some real thought into w= hat=20 would be the most optimal way to accomplish the same things in a differen= t way.=20 Maybe I should have titled it "Make LSFMMBPF great again!" instead. I feel that there is a lot of fat to trim here, and many voices not being= heard=20 because of the way the conference is organized. If I'm the only one then= that's=20 cool, but if I'm not I'd like people to think really hard about what the = ideal=20 meetup looks like, and how we can move in that direction. Thanks, Josef