On Sun, 18.07.10 09:54, Niels Mayer (nielsmayer(a)gmail.com) wrote: Well, as usual people who get presentations accepted will get a free ticket (and more: dinner and stuff). Also there's a good chance that speakers get their travel sponsored. I can only encourage everybody to submit a presentation if you work on the lower userspace layers of audio or upper kernel layers. This is certainly one of the (if not the) most important conferences where the Linux platform is discussed. There is no other conference like it, where you get access to all the people who actually do the work in pushing Linux forward. Yes, for non-speakers there's an entrance fee. But then again it's simply the best technical Linux conference around and all the core people are there. The signal-to-noise ratio is very high. Higher than at any other conference I have ever been to (and believe me, I have seen more than most). So, if you want to push the audio infrastructure forward, come, even better submit something. Mark Brown and I are running the track about Audio and welcome every talk proposal. Also note that there are some areas related to audio (like RT) very well covered at the conference, with all the core and influental people around. It's not only about audio but everything on Linux, and even if your focus is Audio neighboring areas (such as RT) are very important for your work too! In particular, I'd like to put some pressure on the pro audio folks to send somebody to the conference. The last time we had the driver, embedded and desktop areas well covered, but pro audio fell through the cracks. If you want to be heard, and make sure that the particular problems of pro audio are understood and recognized by the kernel and system development community of Linux, then give at talk! Of course, just because you talked at LPC nobody will just fix the problems for you, but what *will* happen is that other folks learn about the problems and can work with you to share infrastructure or make suggestions how to fix them, because often enough the problems in one area are very similar to those already discussed or fixed in othe areas. You will benefit, the pro audio community will benefit, and Linux in general will benefit. Submit something! We'd be delighted to receive submissions from the pro audio community -- and everybody else working on audio on Linux! Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.