[osdevcon-discuss] osdevcon questions

[Dirk Wetter]

Hallo Max,

Am 04.03.2008 18:44, max at bruningsystems.com schrieb:
> Vielen Dank, Dirk.
> 
> Jetzt, einpaar mehr frage.
> 
> Is there any size limitation on the length of a paper being presented?  
> I have currently 29 pages, and may have 30 or so more
> by the time I am finished.

That's indeed a lot. :-8 The minimum GUUG at their conferences recommends
is 8. For a conference next week I submitted 15 and are definelty
above average.

If you talking about sixty pages I would rather thinking about writing a
book, for your own sake.

> Since the paper will be "presented" 
> (assuming it is accepted), I guess I'll also need some
> slides for presentation?  

of course!

> (Actually, when I look at what was done last 
> year, it looks like everyone had slides.  Does this
> mean no one submitted a paper?).

nope, see here:
http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/osdevcon2007/further_readings.html

It's still under discussion whether the papers will be purely
digital or printed. (I prefer the latter one, it gives people
something into their hands and it fits better into the context.)

> Is there any format that I should be using for the paper?  Right now I 
> am just typing everything in as plain text
> and plan to move it to star office to make it look "nice" before 
> submitting it.

You should do that immediately, it saves work later on.
We intend to publish style templates soon for both TeX and OpenOffice.
(@Wolfgang: can we fix the ones we have?)

> Oder, soll wir sprechen in Deutsch?  Ich denke gibt's nur dich und mich 
> an diese mailing list...  Ich kann immer
> mehr uben benutzen.

There are definitely more people on the list but as in life not everybody speaks 
up :-) (People here should take that as an encouragement not the opposite thing 
:-)).


Cheers,
	Dirk

> max
> 
> Dirk Wetter wrote:
>>
>> Guten Tag Max,
>>
>> Am 28.02.2008 13:44, max at bruningsystems.com schrieb:
>>> Hallo Dirk,
>>> Since I am posting to osdevcon-discuss and Jim Grisanzio, I'll stick 
>>> to English...
>>>
>>> I have made very good progress on the paper I want to present at 
>>> osdevcon in Prague (subtitle: where the *#&%! is zfs
>>> storing my data), and am now thinking about a kernel debugging 
>>> tutorial.  So, a few questions about the audience.
>>>
>>> How many people attended the conference last year, and how many do 
>>> you expect this year?
>>
>> we were between 60 to 80, depended on how you counted them.
>>
>>> What tutorials were done last year, and how many people attended them?
>>
>> The first answer you'll find here: 
>> http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/osdevcon2007/program.html
>>
>> Fully booked was IIRC 20 people (Wolfgang?)
>>
>>> If I do a tutorial on kernel debugging, will there be attendees who 
>>> are not Sun employees in Prague (or elsewhere)?
>>
>> This is a question which is difficult to answer. :-) In fact I misplaced
>> my crystal ball ;-)
>>
>> Martin or Lukas have a better overview about local activities. To an
>> outsider like me it looks the CZOSUG scene is definitely not small.
>> Also we expect some local students participating the conference...
>>
>>> Is it possible from this mailing list to get an idea of whether 
>>> people are interested in this (i.e., kernel debugging)?
>>
>> I step back so that others can step forward and raise the hand :-)
>>
>> (More people will subscribe here once we have the program published.)
>>
>>> (Based on the underwhelming response to a recent posting I made to 
>>> zfs-discuss and mdb-discuss, no one is interested
>>> in the zfs paper,
>>
>> I try to google for it, you have a link for me?
>>
>>> so I'm not sure I want to spin my wheels working on a tutorial which 
>>> no one will attend).
>>
>> If you're talking about a kernel debugging tutorial: with your knowledge,
>> experience and the way you interacted w/ the audience at Tech Days I 
>> would
>> say that your room should be cram-full. :-)
>>
>> If this more founded look into my crystal ball turns out to be utterly
>> wrong and there are not enough people, you can always cancel it.
>>
>>
>>> Vielen Dank.
>>
>> Gerne!
>>
>>
>>
>> Best / Schöne Grüße,
>>
>>     Dirk
>>
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Best / Schöne Grüße,

	Dirk

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