linux foundation conference sad face

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:34:00PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was pointed to this e-mail thread:
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-February/msg00058.html
> 
> ... and please accept my apologies for the Linux Foundation not
> reaching out to Fedora more.  The intent of the Collaboration Summit
> is to include all members of the Linux community; it is true that the
> Linux Foundation is an industry consortium --- that *is* how we raise
> money to among other things, pay Linus Torvalds' salary --- but we do
> try to include all parts of the Linux ecosystem.  However, our
> contacts into the various parts of the Linux community aren't
> uniformly distributed, for a variety of reasons.  Our Technical
> Advisory Board is fairly heavily weighted towards kernel developers,
> for example.  (David Jones, the Fedora kernel wrangler, is on LF's
> Technical Advisory Board, and I see him socially every so often, given
> that he's also based out of Boston area, as I am.)
> 
> That being said, I would very much like to try to make this right, if
> we can.  If there are people from Fedora who would like to attend,
> please register at the LF web site:
> 
>    http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit
> 
> ... and just indicate why you would like to attend and if there are
> any workgroup sessions you are interested in attending.  If there are
> specific presentations or workgroups where you are interested in
> participating, drop me a note and I can help connect you with the
> relevant workgroup chair or person who is organizing a particular
> track at the LF Collaboration Summit.

Thanks -- and for the record I've been contacted by a couple Linux
Foundation people as of yesterday, inviting Fedora to participate in
the community panel.

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