New Miniconf: Bridging the gap

A few people have noticed that a new Miniconf has made it to the LCA2010 programme: Bridging the gap.

Run by Tim Penhey, one of the Launchpad team leads, it's all about reducing friction between upstream projects and distributions by using the recently Open Sourced Launchpad platform.

If you are interested in proposing a talk, email Tim. And be sure to ask him when Launchpad will natively support git ;)

Note that this Miniconf replaces the "Free the Cloud" Miniconf which, for reasons outside of our control, will not happen this year. I'm really hoping that it makes it to LCA 2011 though!

Sysadmin miniconf open for early submissions

Following the Open Programming Languages miniconf, the sysadmin miniconf is now accepting early submissions for prospective presenters.

They have openings for:

• 45 minute double-length presentations
• 20 minute full presentations
• 10-15 minute "How we do things" presentations
• 5-10 minute "lightning talks"

For more information, visit the miniconf website.

If you are interested in presenting in one of the other miniconfs, watch the wiki for their announcements or get in touch with the organisers directly.

32 miniconf proposals!

The call for miniconfs is now closed, but we've received a very large number of quality proposals. It'll be quite hard to pick only the best 12 proposals out of the 32 we have received. We could almost have miniconfs during the whole week and have a really good LCA :)

If you want to have an idea of the stress level of the organisers, look at this graph showing the cumulative number of submissions:



As you can see:

• Until the 15th of July, we didn't even have enough miniconfs to fill the two days!
• Two thirds of the proposals came within 4 days of the deadline.

Thanks to everyone who submitted a miniconf, you guys rock!