From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752707Ab3HPWM1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:12:27 -0400 Received: from violet.fr.zoreil.com ([92.243.8.30]:57550 "EHLO violet.fr.zoreil.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751199Ab3HPWMX (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Aug 2013 18:12:23 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 23:02:28 +0200 From: Francois Romieu To: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: Kernel summit 2013: Call for Hobbyists Message-ID: <20130816210228.GA15233@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Organisation: Land of Sunshine Inc. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Theodore Ts'o : [...] > To apply, please send a proposal outlining what you do, what you'd bring > to the kernel summit An umbrella to start with. :o) While the (highly variable amount of) kernel work I do is intellectually rewarding at times, it's not exactly the kind of cool or important thing that deserves to be talked about in a yearly meetup. As a hobbyist, I have less time than most pro and must cope with whatever brain juice remains after the paid work. It doesn't make me an endangered species urging for positive discrimination. Things may be quite different for hobbyists with cool projects. I'm curious to know if such a thing exists and if he/she does not turn into something else anyway. -- Ueimor