XDC2007: Xorg Developer's Conference

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February 7,8,9 2007 San Francisco Bay Area

Live notes are going up at XDC2007 Notes. Play along!

Location

We're a go for the TechShop, a very cool Maker's workshop very near Sun's Menlo Park campus, and close to Palo Alto and Menlo Park Hotels and dining.

Address/Map: 120 Independence Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025

Getting There, Getting Around There

San Jose (SJC) Airport is 16 miles south of Menlo Park airporter shuttle (1-800-XXX XXXX)

San Francisco (SFO) Airport is 20 miles north of Menlo Park

Recommended Hotels

Hampton Inn, 390 moffett blvd, Mountain View CA
Marriot Residence Inn, 4460 El Camino Real, Los Altos
Marriot Residence Inn, # 1854 El Camino Real West Mountain View , CA
Sheraton Palo Alto
Westin Palo Alto
Stanford Park Hotel

range of price/convenience options, The above listed are good places in good locations

Agenda (Presenters: Get your talk listed here. If you need a change, negotiate directly with other presenters and update the wiki)

each item corresponds roughly to one hour of programming Each day, we're planning 3 1 hr slots before lunch, and 2 1 hr slots after lunch, then breakouts

In response to feedback from last year's conference, we are leaving more open space in the schedule for structured and unstructured un-conferencing each day

Wednesday 9AM -> 5 PM

Introductions, Overview - Stuart Kreitman
MultiPointer X - Peter Hutterer
Virtual Multihead - Philip Langdale, VMware
Lunch
Randr 1.2 - Keith Packard, Intel
7.2/7.3 Roadmap - Adam Jackson, Red Hat
Breakout Sessions - All
Breakout Reports - All

Thursday 9AM -> 5 PM

Board of Directors Report, Q&A
Display Technology, EDID, VESA - Joe Miseli (Sun)
Lunch
Secure X - Eamon Walsh (SecurityTalkAgenda)
Cut&Paste - Bart Massey
Breakout Sessions - All
Breakout Reports - All

Friday 9AM -> 5 PM

Compiz - David Reveman
Beryl - Quinn Storm
Mesa - Brian Paul
Lunch
NVIDIA, Xinerama - Andy Ritger, NVIDIA
Xcb - Bart Massey, Portland State U.
Breakouts
Bash! Gunn High School's award winning Jazz Combo will play for us!

Items not covered

Virtualization (Xen)
(auto)-configuration
Open Source drivers vs Vista-certified
Display Port / HDMI / replacing VGA/DVI
Nouveau
One Laptop Per Child - Jim Gettys, olpc (Cancelled)

Attendees

insert your name on a separate line

Eric Anholt, Intel
Jesse Barnes, Intel
Ben Byer, Apple
Erwann Chénedé, Sun
Alan Coopersmith, Sun
Jay Cotton, Sun
Alex Deucher
Egbert Eich, SuSE
Behdad Esfahbod, ?RedHat
Matthias Hopf, SuSE
Peter Hutterer, UniSA
Adam Jackson, Red Hat
James Jones, Nvidia
Stuart Kreitman, Sun
Philip Langdale, VMware
Chris Lee, VMware
Kevin Martin, Red Hat
Bart Massey, Portland State University
Jim McQuillan, ltsp.org
Joe Miseli, Sun
Keith Packard, Intel
Brian Paul, Tungsten Graphics
Aaron Plattner, Nvidia
Niveditha Rau, Sun
David Reveman, Novell
Andy Ritger, Nvidia
Bankim Shah, Attachmate
Carl Switzky, Sun
Roberto Tam, Sun
Bernard Traversat, Sun
Kevin Van Vechten, Apple
Eamon Walsh, NSA (SELinux developer)
NOT ATTENDING:
- Carl Worth, Red Hat, (I had been planning to attend, but due to unforeseen circumstances will not be available. Have fun, everybody!);
- Daniel Stone, Nokia (cannot attend due to schedule clashes -- sorry!)
- Jim Gettys, OLPC (Thursday only)

Sharing Stuff

Folks in need, and folks in a generous mood, please list your interests (or send me email if you want me to help you get matched up)

Other Stuff

If you're finishing up the Xorg Developer's Conference, and haven't had your fill of geek stuff, head down the coast to Los Angeles on Friday. The Fifth Annual SoCal Linux Expo will be February 9th-11th at the Westin LAX Hotel (which is a short shuttle ride from LAX). There are four speaker tracks on both Saturday and Sunday, plus BOFs and a couple of mini-conferences on Friday. If you'd like a BOF for any reason, contact g@socallinuxexpo.com . For more info on the Expo, see http://socallinuxexpo.org/

Thanks to Stu for the commercial space!