From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: alan@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ksummit-2007-discuss@thunk.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:42:48 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1170204168.10890.5.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45BFB785.5090302@sgi.com>
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 22:24 +0100, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 08:16 +0100, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> >> I don't have an issue with the fact there are sponsors, however I think
> >> KS is important enough and sponsors are aware of this, that selling
> >> seats to sponsors shouldn't be necessary.
> >
> > So SGI will undertake to step up and sponsor KS this year without a
> > guaranteed slot?
>
> I didn't realize that all your postings to this list were the official
> views of Steeleye?
That would make two of us then.
> I can't say what SGI will do on this, I'm an engineer not a manager,
> I can however suggest to them that they do. As Willy said, if it was
> an even playing field it would probably be a lot more likely they would,
> compared to how it is today.
OK, but what I'm trying to get across is that saying "get rid of the
sponsored places" isn't really useful without a suggestion of how to
raise the necessary cash. Saying "I talked to SGI and they'd be willing
to forgo their sponsored attendees if everyone else did" might get us
somewhere...
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-31 0:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 105+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-22 7:09 Theodore Ts'o
2007-01-22 11:07 ` [Ksummit-2006-discuss] " Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-22 12:45 ` Alan Cox
2007-01-22 13:14 ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-22 13:17 ` Steven Whitehouse
2007-05-03 21:54 ` LinuxConf Europe 2007 [was Re: 2007 Linux Kernel Summit] Alasdair G Kergon
2007-01-22 13:34 ` [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit Alan
2007-01-22 18:23 ` Rik van Riel
2007-01-23 17:57 ` David Miller
2007-01-23 19:18 ` +1 4 cz (Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit) Oleg Verych
2007-01-25 15:22 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2007-02-06 19:29 ` James Simmons
2007-02-06 20:00 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2007-02-06 20:10 ` James Simmons
2007-02-07 12:06 ` [Ksummit-2007-discuss] " Arnd Bergmann
2007-02-07 12:17 ` Markus Rechberger
2007-01-25 14:22 ` [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit Dirk Hohndel
2007-01-25 20:51 ` David Miller
2007-01-25 20:59 ` Dirk Hohndel
2007-01-25 21:04 ` David Miller
2007-01-26 0:46 ` Sunil Naidu
2007-01-26 3:28 ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-26 4:39 ` Josh Boyer
2007-01-26 6:17 ` Greg KH
2007-01-26 8:15 ` David Miller
2007-01-26 15:04 ` Sunil Naidu
[not found] ` <20070126195024.GE14759@thunk.org>
2007-01-26 23:17 ` Luck, Tony
[not found] ` <20070127064534.GC9897@thunk.org>
2007-01-28 4:25 ` Jes Sorensen
2007-01-28 13:22 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
[not found] ` <45BE8BF9.6020204@sgi.com>
[not found] ` <20070130030430.GA21772@redhat.com>
2007-01-30 3:30 ` [Ksummit-2007-discuss] " Greg Ungerer
2007-01-30 3:41 ` Dave Jones
2007-01-30 3:57 ` Greg Ungerer
2007-01-30 4:01 ` Greg Ungerer
2007-01-30 4:08 ` Paul Mundt
2007-01-30 4:34 ` Dave Jones
2007-01-30 10:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-30 16:48 ` James Bottomley
2007-01-30 16:53 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-01-30 17:12 ` James Bottomley
2007-01-31 8:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-30 14:35 ` Alan
2007-01-30 4:10 ` Dave Jones
2007-01-30 4:22 ` Greg Ungerer
2007-01-30 4:25 ` [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 LinuxKernel Summit Dirk Hohndel
2007-01-30 4:24 ` Dirk Hohndel
2007-01-30 8:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-01-30 5:11 ` [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit Andi Kleen
2007-01-30 5:21 ` Dave Jones
2007-01-30 6:18 ` Paul Mundt
2007-01-30 4:57 ` Jes Sorensen
2007-01-31 0:09 ` Greg Ungerer
2007-01-30 3:36 ` Greg Ungerer
2007-01-30 4:51 ` Jes Sorensen
2007-01-30 5:11 ` James Bottomley
2007-01-30 10:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-30 13:30 ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-30 13:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-30 13:51 ` Paul Mundt
2007-02-03 7:00 ` Len Brown
2007-01-30 5:19 ` Dave Jones
2007-01-30 5:47 ` Jes Sorensen
2007-01-30 5:03 ` Andi Kleen
2007-01-30 5:51 ` Jes Sorensen
2007-01-30 6:04 ` Andi Kleen
2007-01-30 6:11 ` Jes Sorensen
2007-01-30 18:21 ` Luck, Tony
2007-01-30 6:43 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-01-30 7:18 ` Dave Jones
2007-01-30 7:29 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-01-30 15:17 ` James Bottomley
[not found] ` <1170118042.3378.45.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>
[not found] ` <45BEF0C5.7090401@sgi.com>
[not found] ` <1170177057.3420.32.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>
2007-01-30 17:27 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-01-30 17:37 ` James Bottomley
2007-01-30 21:24 ` Jes Sorensen
2007-01-31 0:42 ` James Bottomley [this message]
[not found] ` <20070130083025.1332a6ea.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
2007-01-31 0:52 ` Matt Domsch
2007-01-31 2:21 ` Jes Sorensen
2007-01-31 20:14 ` Dave Jones
2007-01-31 22:49 ` Jes Sorensen
2007-01-31 23:20 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2007-01-31 23:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-31 23:52 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2007-02-01 5:41 ` [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 LinuxKernel Summit Dirk Hohndel
2007-01-31 23:20 ` [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit Alan
[not found] ` <20070129161445.0475d833@freekitty>
2007-01-31 22:53 ` Jes Sorensen
2007-01-26 17:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-30 9:09 ` [Ksummit-2007-discuss] " Oleg Verych
2007-01-30 9:44 ` Dave Airlie
2007-01-30 13:02 ` Oleg Verych
2007-01-30 9:22 ` hunting on open source developers (Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit) Oleg Verych
2007-01-26 12:23 ` [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2007-01-26 12:38 ` Bjørn Mork
2007-01-26 13:23 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-01-26 13:45 ` Alan
2007-01-23 19:52 ` Sunil Naidu
2007-01-23 21:25 ` James Morris
2007-01-23 21:39 ` Josh Boyer
2007-01-23 23:11 ` Sunil Naidu
2007-01-24 1:42 ` Theodore Tso
2007-01-24 8:49 ` Sunil Naidu
[not found] ` <8f3aa8d60701241018o6d4d8c37jb20ddb49f47e3eec@mail.gmail.com>
2007-01-24 18:27 ` Martin Bligh
2007-01-24 19:47 ` Scott Preece
2007-01-24 21:26 ` Alan Cox
2007-01-26 21:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <E1H9pZc-0002J5-Na@flower>
2007-01-24 21:35 ` Scott Preece
2007-01-24 9:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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