Re: [9fans] WIP session at IWP9

["Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>]

On Nov 27, 2007 1:22 AM, Anthony Sorace <anothy@gmail.com> wrote:
> I saw that the program draft has been posted
> (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/iwp9/programme.pdf) - neat! Looks like an
> interesting lineup. Can someone talk briefly about what the
> Work-in-Progress session at the end is about? That is, is this content
> provided by the organizers, or is it more free-form time for
> attendees?
>

The initial idea was for folks attending to talk about what they were
working on without having to prepare a formal
paper/30-minute-presentation.  I'm not sure what the final format is,
but one suggestion was 3-slides/roughly-5-minutes per topic with a
short discussion time afterwards -- probably maxing out at 10 minutes.
 The idea is to be short and pithy, not get into extended design
discussions.  Perhaps if there is slack time, topics that folks are
interested in can be revisited -- either in front of the group or over
coffee/beer.  (mmm...delicious coffee beer)  Individuals can present
more than one topic, but we may have to revisit that if there is too
much of a time crunch.  For example, I've got a few different things I
want to touch in on -- v9fs, multi-dimension-file-systems, warren, a
Plan 9/Inferno port to RAMP, and maybe some discussion of what's
happening with libOS these days (we'll already be covering the blue
gene update in our talk).  Of course, given that that's almost 30
minutes worth of topics, I may have to selectively trim a bit ;)

Ideally, folks will have their slides prepped ahead of time and in PDF
so we can just dump them all on a laptop so we don't have to deal with
5 minutes of setup time per person.

               -eric