Reference: LPC2021-RFQ01
The Linux Plumbers Conference committee seeks to contract one or more suppliers for the development of Open Source software improvements to BigBlueButton; Matrix; and other associated work.
Offers must be received by Thursday March 25th end of day (EOD). Offers must be submitted electronically to contact@linuxplumbersconf.org.
Details of the RFQ are available publicly online here.
The RFQ document might be updated to reflect answers to questions or provide additional information.
The Linux Plumbers Conference successfully made use of BigBlueButton in 2020 and is planning to deploy it again in 2021. One improvement the committee is seeking is the ability to integrate instant messaging more effectively in 2021. The Matrix project, and related client and server components, looks very promising. We look forward to working together with members of these communities to improve the projects through features funding.
The details are in the RFQ document. More can be provided based on the information required by the projects.
The Call for Refereed Presentation Proposals for the 2021 edition of the Linux Plumbers Conference is now open, which we plan to hold in Dublin, Ireland the last week of September in conjunction with The Linux Foundation Open Source Summit. If an in-person conference should prove to be impossible due to the circumstances at that time, Linux Plumbers will switch to a virtual only conference. Submitters should ideally be able to give their presentation in person if circumstances permit, although presenting remotely will always be possible. Please see our website or social media for regular updates.
Refereed Presentations are 45 minutes in length and should focus on a specific aspect of the “plumbing” in the Linux system. Examples of Linux plumbing include core kernel subsystems, init systems, core libraries, windowing systems, management tools, device support, media creation/playback, and so on. The best presentations are not about finished work, but rather problem statements, proposals, or proof-of-concept solutions that require face-to-face discussions and debate.
The Refereed Presentations track will be running throughout all three days of the conference. Note that given the current Linux Plumbers Refereed track may overlap with the Open Source Summit.
Linux Plumbers Conference Program Committee members will be reviewing all submitted proposals. High-quality submissions that cannot be accepted due to the limited number of slots will be forwarded to both the Open Source Summit and to organizers of suitable Linux Plumbers Microconferences for further consideration.
To submit a Refereed Track Presentation proposal follow the instructions here [1]
Submissions are due on or before June 12 that 11:59PM UTC.
[1] https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/11/abstracts/
Planning for the 2021 Linux Plumbers Conference is well underway. The hope is to be in Dublin co-located with OSS EU (although with hopefully non-overlapping dates). However, the Linux Foundation is still negotiating for a suitable venue so we can’t fully confirm the location yet.
There is an outside (and hopefully receding) chance that we may have to go back to being fully on-line this year, but if that happens, we’ll be sure to alert you through the usual channels of this blog and twitter.
We had 185 responses to the Linux Plumbers survey in 2020, which, given the total number of conference registrants of 809, has provided confidence in the feedback. Given that the event was held virtually this year, it’s encouraging to see the community remaining engaged. So we are pleased to offer an especially heartfelt “thank you” to everyone who participated in this survey!
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Welcome to LPC 2020! This year we have a record number of attendees,
around 950. We hope you’ll find the conference as engaging and
productive as the ones we had in person for the past 12 years.
Please watch this LPC 2020 welcome message from our Committee Chair, Laura
Abbott, in lieu of our usual plenary session, which also contains useful
information about how this year’s conference will take place.
Enjoy!!
LPC 2020 is sold out. No more tickets are available. We have reached the maximum capacity for our server infrastructure.
Please be considerate, there is no need to contact us asking for tickets, as we are very busy finalizing all the details of the virtual conference.
If you do not have a ticket, you will be able to watch live starting Monday!
Please follow the links here.
Only 4 days to the beginning of LPC 2020!
A reminder about how to attend our virtual edition of the Linux Plumbers Conference.
If you are registered, you can participate by joining the Meeting Rooms on our Big Blue Button instance, starting Monday August 24th. You will find a front end showing the schedule for the current day with all the active sessions you can join. If you are having issues, please consult the LPC 2020 Participant Guide.
If you are not registered, you can still watch LPC live streams on YouTube. For how to do this, please refer to this page on our website.
We are very pleased to announce that our final schedule is public!
Please take a look at all the great technical content at this year virtual LPC.
You can view the schedule by main blocks , or by track, or as a complete detailed view.
At this time we are closing the CfPs for all tracks. We have still room for a limited number of Birds of a Feather sessions. If you want to propose one, even during the conference, and the necessary participants are all registered, please send an email to our lpc-contact@lists.linuxplumbersconf.org mailing list.
A heartfelt Thank You to all our Speakers and Microconference Leaders, you all have done an incredible job in making this year’s conference successful, in spite of all the challenges that a remote and distributed conference entails.
See you virtually next week!
Hello there, thank you all for the very strong interest in LPC 2020!
We have sold out the last ticket today. We have a lot of attendees and speakers this year for our virtual conference! Almost 1000 registrations!
Do not despair though, because there will be the opportunity to watch the conference live streaming on YouTube. We are still sorting out our channels, but keep an eye on our blog and social media in the next couple of days, where we’ll announce how to watch live.
Thanks, and see you next week!
We have received several requests for T-shirts this year.
We have always produced T-shirts for attendees since the early days of LPC, and we don’t want to miss the opportunity to offer them this year too.
Since we are all remote, we have set up a LPC Gift Shop where you can order T-shirts in your favorite colors and sizes. We also have made the designs available if you want to print your own.
Enjoy!
