[openfabrics-ewg] [openib-general] OpenFabrics Developer Summit at SC06, Tampa Nov 16 - 17

[James Lentini]

Bill,

In addition to the OFA registration, do we need to register for SC06 
to attend the summit?

james

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Bill Boas wrote:

> To all in the OpenFabrics Community
> 
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> 
> We will be holding our first Developer Summit in the Tampa Convention Center
> courtesy of SC06 starting at 1.30PM in Room 17 on Thursday November 16,
> 2006. On Friday November 17, we will start in Room 13 at 8.00 AM and
> continue till 5.00PM. We have had to schedule into these time slots because
> no other usable space is available at any other times during the week of
> SC06!
> 
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> 
> OpenFabrics will cater food and beverages for afternoon break and supper on
> Thursday, breakfast, lunch and two breaks on Friday. We will set up a
> registration site at Acteva to collect $$ to cover our out of pocket
> expenses – I’ll email out the URL for that site in the next day or two.
> 
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> Please review attached Strawman purposes, suggested attendees and agenda.
> Any changes or comments, please email them to the community for all to
> comment on please. 
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> The Summit has several dimensions and themes throughout our work there:
> 
> 1) – consistency and robustness of the Linux and Windows software stacks for
> Release 2.0 of OpenFabrics;
> 
> 2) - feature selection, development resources and timelines for Release 2.0;
> 
> 3) - activities, features and processes of the Enterprise Working Group on
> OFED 1.x until Release 2.0 is ready hand-off to the EWG;
> 
> 4) – enhancing the resources of the EWG to be ready for 2.0 it so that it
> may be subsequently be distributed as OFED 2.0. and adopted by the
> OpenFabrics vendor and customer communities for production use.
> 
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> This is a far too much work for just a day and half! PLEASE START NOW
> exchanging ideas for additional features, contact peer engineers from
> companies and customers to discuss work sizing, development resources,
> identify volunteer developers for items so that when we meet on the 16th
> we’re not starting from a blank sheet!
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> Sujal Das, Johann George, Matt Leininger, Pramod Srivatsa, Hal Rosenstock,
> Tom Tucker and Bob Woodruff are leading the pre-meeting, STRAWMAN collation
> of requirements, feature prioritization, developer assignments, sizing and
> processes so that we have the list largely complete prior to the meeting and
> people know has already volunteered for items from the list.
> 
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> 
> Bill Boas
> 
> VP, Business Development | System Fabric Works
> 
> bboas at systemfabricworks.com | 510-375-8840
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