RE: 2012 Kernel Summit: Call for Participation: 2nd CALL

[Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>]

Tejun Heo wrote:
> 
> Hello, guys.
> 
Hi all,

> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:19:22AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > The annual Kernel Summit for 2012 will be held on the 3 days preceding
> the
> > Linux Foundation LinuxCon and Linux Plumbers Conference at the Sheraton
> San
> > Diego Hotel and Marina from 27-29 August:
> 
> First of all, thank you very much for doing the hard work of
> organizing KS for all these years.
> 
> One issue that I sometimes have with KS is that it often coincides
> with (or falls very close to) Korean Thanksgiving which is 15th day of
> 8th month on the lunar calendar which, this year, falls on Sept 30th.
> This is one of the two biggest traditional holidays in Korea (three
> day holiday thing w/ a lot of the population moving for family
> gatherings) making traveling for conferences somewhat difficult.
> 
Yeah, right.

> Interestingly, China doesn't seem to have that as thanksgiving but
> moon festival, which may be a smaller deal and the population affected
> by this schedule may be too small to matter.  Is it just me?  Any
> other Koreans coming to KS this year?.
> 
Here, another Korean, I'd like to attend KS 2012 ;)

> Depending on the number of people affected and if at all possible, it
> would be nice to avoid such big holidays.  So, have fun, guys.
> 

Thanks.

Best regards,
Kgene.
--
Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>, Senior Engineer,
SW Solution Development Team, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.