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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Time	Event
08:30	Student registration
09:00	LPC Student Mini-conference
19:00	Joint Kernel Summit/LPC Event at Aura Lounge sponsored by IBM. First opportunity to check-in in to LPC registration.
19:00	Registration check-in at Aura Lounge
21:30	Aura Lounge closes to minors at 10pm. All ages gathering at Backspace

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Time	Ballroom	Room 1 (rm #338)	Room 2 (rm #238)	Room 3 (rm #298/296)
08:00	Check-in and breakfast
09:00	Main registration closed
08:45	Welcome to LPC and Sponsor Introductions
09:00	Keynote: The Linux Ecosystem, where do you fit in it? - Greg Kroah-Hartman
10:00		The future of Linux storage MC Runner: Matthew Wilcox I/O Trace - Michael Meeks	Audio MC Runner: Lennart Poettering FFADO: firewire audio for Linux - Jonathan Woithe ALSA Status Quo - Takashi Iwai
12:30	Lunch (on your own)
13:30		Debugging, tuning, tracing, and profiling MC Runner: Steve Rostedt systemtap's capabilities, limitations, and implementation - Frank Ch. Eigler Tracing ABI for efficient kernel-userspace tracing - Mathieu Desnoyers Kernel support for user debugging: ptrace, utrace, and what's next - Roland McGrath (Red Hat) Ftrace - Steven Rostedt	Video input infrastructure and V4L2 MC Runner: Mauro Carvalho Chehab The video4linux user-space: libv4l2, applications and a server - Brandon Philips libv4l2 - Hans de Goede Extending V4L2 to support complex media streaming devices - Hans Verkuil Video input Status quo - Mauro Carvalho Chehab	CRFS - Zach Brown Are the DIMMs going bad? Making sense of memory error messages. - Max Asböck How to Talk to a Long-Running Process - Bob Smith
16:00	Snack sponsored by Intel
16:30	Git Tutorial - Linus Torvalds	Working Session	Working Session	Working Session
19:00	LPC Event at the Portland Art Museum Fields Ballroom sponsored by Intel

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Time	Ballroom	Room 1 (rm #338)	Room 2 (rm #238)	Room 3 (rm #298/296)
08:00	Breakfast sponsored by NetApp
09:00	Feature: Kernel Report - Jonathan Corbet
10:00		Boot and init MC Runner: Dave Jones From Naught to Sixty in 5 Seconds - Arjan van de Ven & Auke Kok Early bootup cross-distro collaboration - Dave Jones Faster than a Greased Penguin: Making the Linux Boot Suck Less - Kyle McMartin	Linux server management MC Runner: Darrick Wong Physical PCI slots: A little bit goes a long way - Alex Chiang Infrastructure for PCIe Endpoint Devices - Arnd Bergmann Hiding ACPI - Len Brown	Status of Fibre Channel and FCoE Support in Linux - Chris Leech The Btrfs Filesystem: Design, Status and Goals - Chris Mason Embedded virtualization with KVM: Yes, it does make sense! - Hollis Blanchard
12:30	Lunch (on your own)
13:30		Kernel/userspace interfaces MC Runner: Greg Kroah-Hartman Where should the Line be drawn between kernel and user space? - James Bottomley Who owns the interface? - Michael Kerrisk Panel: Configfs - Joel Becker Netlink - Stephen Hemminger	Power management and tools for efficient resource usage MC Runner: Matthew Garrett OLPC Power Management Challenges - Deepak Saxena and Chris Ball Expanding the Vocabulary of Power management - Mark Gross Non-power management interfaces and power management - Oliver Neukum	Virtualized Development Infrastructure Management with Puppet: Beyond Cloning. - Teyo Tyree Filesystem Statistics - Selena Deckelmann & Gabrielle Roth Linux Data Integrity - Martin K. Petersen
16:00	Snack
16:30	systemtap Tutorial - Jim Keniston	Working Session	Working Session	Working Session
18:00	Cocktails, Littman Gallery, Smith Center 2nd floor sponsored by NetApp
19:30	Dinner (on your own)

Friday, September 19, 2008

Time	Ballroom	Room 1 (rm #338)	Room 2 (rm #335)	Room 3 (rm #327)
08:00	Breakfast sponsored by IBM
09:00		Future displays and input devices MC Runner: Keith Packard Graphics Drivers in the Kernel : 20 years late. - Dave Airlie & Jesse Barnes Plumbing the graphics pipeline - Carl Worth Future Displays and Input Devices - Jaya Kumar OpenGL 3.0 - Ian Romanick	Dbus for desktop integration MC Runner: David Zeuthen Interface design for authentication, and session management - William Jon McCann Upstart 1.0 Plans - Scott James Remnant
11:30	MicroConfs Report-Outs
12:30	Conference Closing

BoFs

There is ample space available throughout the conference for "bird of a feather" meetings. Room can be reserved via the BoF scheduling wiki page.