Musings on LCA Papers
I'm reading through the paper abstracts submitted to LCA. This is really hard: there are so many good papers and only a limited number of slots.
The breadth of the submissions makes me happy too. We have technical breadth (sound recording to databases) and depth (Linux in schools to kernel hackery). There are submissions from people on six continents, and in particular more interest from Asia than in previous years. LCA seems to be gaining quite a reputation.
Making decisions about which papers will work well implies some idea of what the focus of the conference ought to be. We probably have enough submissions to run an Australian Kernel Summit if we wanted, and I for one would go to every session. But I don't think that best advances our World Domination mission: we need topics that will be approachable and exciting for people relatively new to Linux, and even old farts can benefit from looking up from their keyboard to see what else is happening.
I'd like people to go home from LCA feeling excited about what's happening with Linux and free software and motivated to deepen their involvement. Perhaps they'll install some new bit of software they heard about; perhaps they'll try modifying their kernel; perhaps they'll install Linux at their work.
posted Mon 15 Sep 2003 in /projects/lca2004 | link
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