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FreeBSD Developer Summit
meetBSD California, November 17 - 18, 2008
There was an invitation-only FreeBSD Developer Summit after the meetBSD California conference in Mountain View on November 17 - 18, 2008. The event was held at the Googleplex from 10am - 5pm each day. Lunch was provided. Parking was free.
We had over 30 attendees from Yahoo, NetApp, Isilon, QLogic, Huawei, Google, Juniper, Cisco, Facebook, and other technology companies using or looking at using FreeBSD. There were formal presentations on the first day. Here is a picture of the unstructured hacking during the second day.
Logistics
** REGISTERED GUESTS WILL RECEIVE BUILDING INFORMATION PRIVATELY AS THIS IS INVITATION-ONLY EVENT **
Mountain View, California is approximately 45 minutes south of San Francisco by train (http://www.caltrain.com). The nearest airport is San Jose International (SJC), but there are better rail connections with San Francisco International (SFO) which is only slightly further away. Oakland Airport (OAK) is also an option but is 2-3 hours away by train (BART then caltrain) or 1 hour and $100+ by taxi.
If you would like to attend and are a FreeBSD.org committer or guest of a committer please register in the table below. If you would like to lead a discussion or give a more formal presentation on Monday please list your topic and scheduling preferences in the Notes field.
You can enter two addresses or points of interest and find the best route on public transit in the Bay Area with the Bay Area Trip Planner or Google Transit.
Map
Agenda
Monday
| Timeslot | Speaker / Discussion Leader | Topic |
| 10am - 10:15am | Murray Stokely | Welcome notes, introduction, coffee served |
| 10:15 - 11 | Robert Watson | Update on the SMP network stack |
| 11-11:30 | Marcel Moolenaar | gpart, BSD debugger |
| 11:30-12 | Marcel Moolenaar | I-cache coherence handling and mmap support for caching attributes. |
| 12-1pm | Lunch Break - served in the meeting room. | |
| 1-2pm | Kip Macy | Xen integration and network stack optimization. |
| 2 - 2:30pm | Qing Li | 1) Enhancement to address asymmetrically routed flows for application proxies 2) status of ECMP since checkin (back in April 2008) 3) issues to be resolved in the new ARP implementation |
| 2:30-3pm | Coffee Break | Coffee Break |
| 3-3:30pm | Sam Leffler | Embedded – especially Gateworks board support |
| 3:30-4pm | Sam Leffler | Wireless |
| 4-4:50pm | Warner Losh | Embedded – SD/MMC work, expresscard, and more. |
| 4:50 - 5pm | Murray Stokely | Closing. Coordinate dinner plans, carpools, evening get togethers. |
Tuesday
| Timeslot | Speaker / Discussion Leader | Topic |
| 10am - 10:15am | Murray Stokely | Announcements and Introductions, coffee served |
| 10:15 - 10:30am | Session Planning – unconference style. Sessions proposed and schedule developed for smaller working groups and focus areas. | |
| 10:30 - noon | All | Working groups get together in separate sessions to discuss / hack on specific focus areas. |
| 12-1pm | Lunch Break - served in the meeting room. | |
| 1pm - 2:30 | All | Working groups get together in separate sessions to discuss / hack on specific focus areas. |
| 2:30-3pm | Coffee Break | Coffee Break |
| 3pm - 4:50pm | All | Working groups get together in separate sessions to discuss / hack on specific focus areas. |
| 4:50 - 5pm | Murray Stokely | Closing. Coordinate dinner plans, carpools, evening get togethers. |
Proposals for Topics on Tuesday :
| Topic | People that are interested |
| ACLs | Tim Kientzle, Robert Watson, Zach Loafman, Pawel Jakub Dawidek |
| SMP network stack | Robert Watson |
| Unmapped buffer cache | |
| Kernel privilege and capability models | Robert Watson, Zach Loafman, Pawel Jakub Dawidek |
| ZFS | Pawel Jakub Dawidek |
| Lustre | Pawel Jakub Dawidek |
| Case-insensitive filenames support | Pawel Jakub Dawidek |
| NFSv4 | Zach Loafman, Pawel Jakub Dawidek |
| hints improvements | Peter Wemm |
Attending (Registration now closed)
*Registration is Closed* (sorted by last name)
| Name | FreeBSD.org login | Arrival Date / flight details | Departure Date / flight details | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JohnBaldwin | jhb | SFO 14th at 12:30 | SFO 19th at 13:20 | |
| JoeCaraDonna | - | - | - | NetApp; guest of RobertWatson |
| AdrianChadd | adrian | Tentative; it depends if I'm on the west coast or not | ||
| JeremyChadwick | koitsu | Local | ||
| Weiqian Dai | - | - | - | Huawei; guest of QingLi |
| PawelJakubDawidek | pjd | SFO 14th at 12:55 | SFO 19th at 15:35 | |
| Steve Dong | - | - | - | Huawei; guest of QingLi |
| JulianElischer | julian | Local | ||
| TimKientzle | kientzle | Local | ||
| SamLeffler | sam | Local. Can talk about embedded; especially Gateworks board support | ||
| QingLi | qingli | Local | ||
| Ming Li | - | - | - | Huawei; guest of QingLi |
| XinLi | delphij | Local | ||
| WarnerLosh | imp | SJC 14th at 8:30pm | SJC 19th at 5:00pm | could talk about embedded, SD/MMC work, expresscard and maybe other stuff, may only be available Monday. Tuesday is TBD. |
| PeterLosher | plosher | Local | ||
| KipMacy | kmacy | Local, unavailable Tuesday morning, could talk about xen integration and network stack optimization | ||
| Adam Martin | adamartin | AdrianChadd guest - Available Monday/Tuesday | ||
| KirkMcKusick | mckusick | Local | ||
| MarcelMoolenaar | marcel | Local, could talk about gpart or the BSD debugger. Another topic for discussion is I-cache coherence handling and mmap support for caching attributes. | ||
| NateLawson | njl | Local, available on Monday only to discuss acpi (no plans to give a talk) | ||
| DavidOBrien | obrien | Local | ||
| PhilipPaeps | philip | SFO 14th at 13:30 | SFO 19th at 08:45 | |
| JoshPaetzel | jpaetzel | |||
| AlfredPerlstein | alfred | N/A | ||
| AlexPetruncola | - | - | - | NetApp; guest of RobertWatson |
| JeffPrem | - | - | - | NetApp; guest of RobertWatson |
| PaulSaab | ps | Local | ||
| VijaySingh | Local, NetApp, guest of PeterGrehan | |||
| DavidSomayajulu | - | QLogic, invited by RobertWatson | ||
| SuleimanSouhlal | ssouhlal | Local | ||
| MurrayStokely | murray | Local | ||
| RobertWatson | rwatson | TBD | TBD | Plan to be present; would prefer the DevSummit be after MeetBSD rather than before due to other obligations on those dates. |
| PeterWemm | peter | Local | ||
| Yang Yu | - | - | - | Huawei; guest of QingLi |
| HidetoshiShimokawa | simokawa | 10th | 23th | |
| Rachel Hestilow | - | - | - | Isilon, guest of MurrayStokely |
| Zach Loafman | - | - | - | Isilon, guest of MurrayStokely |
| MarkPeek | mp | Local | ||