"The first Linux Plumbers Conference has just been announced. It
takes place on September 17-19 in Portland, Oregon, back-to-back
with this year's Linux Kernel summit.
"The scope of Linux Plumbers Conference goes a bit beyond the
Linux kernel; it spills out to include interfaces with the X Window
System and some other userspace features. The list of major topics,
which will be the subjects of 'microconfs' lasted about two and a
half hours each and will be run by leaders in the Linux community,
include a number of familiar obsessions in the world of Linux
(power management, graphics, audio), plus a couple interesting
explorations such as video input and Linux server
management..."