[Mesa-dev] XDC 2017 feedback

[Daniel Vetter]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 7:36 AM, Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 10:07 PM, Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you had known of the khr dates, and brought it up in Feb (or really
>> somewhat earlier, given that XDC is roughly same time each year +/-
>> few weeks), that *might* have been early enough to move things.
>
> That's unfair. It's part of the X.Org board's responsibilities to plan
> conferences and that means being aware of potential conflicts. In
> February, six of the eight members of the X.Org board worked for
> companies with Khronos access (that's not including Keith who I
> suspect has access as well).
>
> I replied to the 2017-03-02 minutes and noted the conflict, but as you
> say that was too late. Unfortunately that was the first time a date
> was publicly announced, so I'm not really sure what could have been
> done from outside the X.Org board.

I don't remember all the details anymore, but we have plumbers right
before, and Linaro connect right afterwards, both conferences that
also have considerable overlap with XDC (we have a lot more than x86
folks since 2-3 years now). Bunch of people decided not to do XDC this
year even, because too much travelling in one row. Plus Google's limit
in scheduling a room, plus Khr f2f. We'll try to do better next year,
but sometimes perfect scheduling is just not an option.

Thanks, Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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