From: Martin Langhoff Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 23:05:45 GMT Subject: Re: git/cogito workshop/bof at linuxconf au? Message-ID: <46a038f905081316056e83ebec@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 8/14/05, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I was planning to be there. I like lca, but passed it over this year > because of it being in Canberra And how are things lining up for the upcoming one (January 2006, Dunedin, NZ)? > > I would gladly try and organize a workshop, but I am far from fluent > > with git, so I won't go at it alone. Any takers? Call for papers ends > > 5th September, not too far ahead. We have to register our interest > > _now_. > > I'm no good with papers, though. Workshops and BOFs don't need to be paper-backed at all. Though it's not unlikely that someone with an interest in SCM theory would write a paper covering git. I think the main interest would be to bring git practical usage to the masses. There's a lot of interest, but the barriers of entry are somewhat high, with the codebase moving fast, and some of the concepts requiring re-learning of what to expect from an SCM. Perhaps no so much among kernel hackers, but the general populace is largely still laden with cvs/svn and their mindset. cheers, martin