The Planning Committee for the Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) is pleased to announce a call for refereed-track proposals for the 2012 edition of LPC, which will be held August 29-31 in San Diego, CA, USA. Refereed-track presentations are about 45 minutes in length, and should focus on a specific aspect of the “plumbing” in the Linux system. The Linux system’s plumbing includes kernel subsystems, core libraries, windowing systems, management tools, media creation/playback, and so on.
The best presentations are not about finished work, but rather problems, proposals, or proof-of-concept solutions that require face-to-face discussions and debate among people from different areas of the Linux plumbing. Ideally, the best presentations are also working sessions that result in patches to various portions of Linux’s plumbing that make the Linux world a better place for its developers and (most important) its users.
A proposal should be short: just a couple of paragraphs describing the topic, why it is important, and what parts of the plumbing it touches.
Proposals are due at 11:59PM Pacific Time on Tuesday, May 1st, 2012. Authors will be notified by Tuesday May 15th, 2012. We look forward to seeing your proposal, and to seeing you in San Diego!
SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL
We are using the Launchpad infrastructure this year, but it is still easy to submit a proposal. Go to this URL, which will take you to a “Register a new blueprint”. However, if Launchpad doesn’t know you, it will take you to an account-creation page, in which case please create a new Launchpad account so that it does know you. Once you have a Launchpad account, the above URL will take you to the “Register a new blueprint” page.
Once you get to the “Register a new blueprint” page:
Then click the “Register Blueprint” button to submit your proposal! You will automatically be recorded as the person submitting the proposal.
If you have any difficulty submitting your abstract, please email the details to contact@linuxplumbersconf.org. For complete information on participating in LPC 2012, please visit our Participate Page.