[Mesa-dev] X/Graphics DevRoom at FOSDEM 2012? (4-5 February)

Luc Verhaegen libv at skynet.be
Tue Sep 20 04:19:50 PDT 2011


On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:12:17PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:49:33 +0200, Luc Verhaegen <libv at skynet.be> wrote:
> > So... After our terrible showing in 2010, i now need more to convince 
> > the FOSDEM organizers that we are worth of a DevRoom, that we can 
> > deliver. So, with a deadline of oktober 1st, i am now asking for 6 
> > people (basically fill up saturday afternoon) to step up and promise to 
> > hold a talk at FOSDEM, even when their employers end up not paying for 
> > their expenses, even when there is some other conference that might turn 
> > up in the next 5.5 months.
> 
> Brussels is just around the corner to me, so I'll put myself forward to
> describe path rendering in Cairo/Qt and how we can extend Render to
> offload more of that work onto the GPU. I can also put together some
> material on X in a post-Wayland world, from the point-of-view of
> maintaining a 2D render server. 
> 
> Daniel, think you might pop over for the weekend and teach us a thing or
> two about the DRM infrastructure and what it might look like in a year
> or two as more SoC gradually become mainline?
> -Chris

Ah, yes, I should've stated this: If you live in or near london, then, 
with the time it takes the eurostart to take you there, not coming to 
Brussels for FOSDEM is a sin :)

Smashing stuff Chris!

Luc Verhaegen.


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