From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:49:31 -0600 From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] WIP session at IWP9 In-Reply-To: <509071940711262322m4c8c54bfmc07b453c0d3dbb8b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <509071940711262322m4c8c54bfmc07b453c0d3dbb8b@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0cbfde7e-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Nov 27, 2007 1:22 AM, Anthony Sorace 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