Linux Symposium Issues CFP
C. Craig Ross let me know that the 2006 Linux Symposium has issued their 2006 call for papers The conference is being held from July 19th thru the 22nd up in luverly Ottawa, Canada. OLS has been a phenomenal show in the past, and I highly recommend it for people looking for a "meaty" show. Proposals for papers will be accepted from January 1st - February 1st, so get writing.
Have you even taken a look at the previous year's proceedings? They're all avaliable on the OLS's web site:p
http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/proceedings.ph
All of the talks are highly technincal and most topics covered wouldn't directly affect the average end user. These aren't opinion papers!
Hmmmmn, lets have a look at the 2005 schedule:
Two examples (chosen at random):
Looks like its a serious conference, for serious linux hackers.
My pics.
You can look at papers from previous years on the website.
There is no focus or theme for the conference. It's essentially one of the main technical linux conferences, so topics cover the gamut from where X.org is headed, to driver optimizations for a particular network card, to introducing whole new protocol stacks.
Also, anyone who wants to present a talk will likely have attended previous years.