[opensolaris-summit] Confusion over schedule

[Glynn Foster]

Hey,

A few of you have noted privately about the current talk selection in the schedule -

 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/summit/

I'd like to clarify this a little, so that people don't put in needless work
preparing talks.

The schedule at this stage is very, very un-finalized.

We're trying to get to a stage where we have a rough idea of the various
breakouts that people are interested in and who might moderate them. If you've
read the minutes from the summit calls, we're looking to focus the first day on
potential 3 topics (install, packaging, modernization) and come up with a
selection of breakouts. On Sunday, we're thinking that we could tackle some of
the social issues that people have brought up eg. how to lower the barrier to
contribution.

Either way, please ignore the schedule for the moment. There will be *no* formal
talks. No one should be preparing a formal presentation unless you are
specifically asked to. One thought we had was to open up each day with a set of
lightning talks [1] around a set of topics, focusing on a very short summary of
the topic area, but drilling down into the problems that need facing.

Hope that clears things up. If you'd like to participate in planning
discussions, join our call tomorrow.


thanks,

Glynn

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Talk