Per the email string below, Andrew Morton needs to reschedule. We have 2 options:

1) push the BALUG meeting back one week

2) find another speaker and reschedule with Andrew Morton for later in the year

Regarding #2, I sent an email to Jeremy Alison this morning to see if he could stand in on short notice. However, I have no idea if this is possible or not. A presentation by Untangle's CTO is always a possiblity, but I don't want to force that on the group.

Please let me know what you think ASAP.

-- Andrew Fife Untangle - The Open Source Network Gateway www.untangle.com/download

650.425.3327 desk 415.806.6028 cell -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@linux-foundation.org] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 11:29 AM To: Andrew Fife Subject: Re: Feedback on Topics for BALUG Talk (June 17th)

Thanks, sorry about that.

Either the preceding week or the following one would be fine. It's just the 14th to the 22nd which is the problem.

On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:13:35 -0700 (PDT) "Andrew Fife" afife@untangle.com wrote:

Regarding moving the date, its not out of the question, but going backwards would be easier than forwards. Let me know what would work best for you.

-- Andrew Fife Untangle - The Open Source Network Gateway www.untangle.com/download

650.425.3327 desk 415.806.6028 cell -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@linux-foundation.org] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 11:10 AM To: Andrew Fife Subject: Re: Feedback on Topics for BALUG Talk (June 17th)

Oh shit, I've gone and double-booked myself that week - family vacation.

Sorry, let me get back to you later today.

Is there any chance of moving the date? I guess not...

On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:03:26 -0700 (PDT) "Andrew Fife" afife@untangle.com wrote:

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Hi Andrew:

As promised, here are snippets of feedback on what folks would like to hear you speak about at BALUG on 6/17. I'm making the meeting announcements on various LUG lists today I'll forward more your way if anything else trickles in. We are really looking forward to hosting you at BALUG on 6/17.

Thanks,

Andrew

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Joe Royal wrote:

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I would like to know about what is laking in things like virtualization, solid state storage and what he thinks will be happening with the kernel

in

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these areas."

Ref: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2008-May/004185. html

Jim Stockford wrote:

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what are the three burningest needs that AM sees the community can help with (probably number one is testing...)? how can we users best help out (what's the contact path he prefers)? what are the biggest problems the linux using community presents to his development teams? what are the three most-asked-for new features? what are the three nearest-to-completion new features? what forks in the road(s) ahead? what's he got to say about embedded linux? what's the future of threading? what's the future approach to presenting management of multiple CPUs (i.e. some kind of synchronous/concurrent API)?" -- Jim Stockford

Ref: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2008-May/0005 49 .htm l

Mike Higashi wrote:

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How about a review of recent history, for example on why the even/odd numbering for stable/development kernels has been dropped, and an explanation of what the new process is.

Ref: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2008-May/0005 50 .htm l

Jesse Zbikowski responded to Mike Higashi:

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The even/odd numbering issue was pretty well resolved 3-4 years ago with the conclusion that two wildly diverging development lines (stable/development) is a Bad Idea. Hopefully nobody is still wondering why there's no 2.7.x.

http://kerneltrap.org/node/4100

I would be interested to hear Andrew talk about his own tree (-mm) and possibly other important trees he pulls from.

Ref: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2008-May/0005 52 .htm l

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