Hi,

Since the year 2000, the Free Software Community in France has been
organizing the "Libre Software Meeting", once a year [1]. This year
[2], LSM will take place in Nancy, to the East of France, from July
5th to July 8th. LSM is a conference which basically consists mostly
in technical talks by Free Software developers and researchers, plus
societal talks as well.

Technical talks are split into several sections, ranging from
high-level programming languages to security and databases.  Renaud
Lottiaux (CC'd) and I are responsible for the "Operating Systems and
Kernel Programming" topic this year.

We would be interested in your giving a talk presenting the block
layer of the Linux kernel, as well as your work on the I/O
schedulers. An introduction to the issues and needs in I/O scheduling,
an history of I/O schedulers in the Linux kernel and other free
kernels, a discussion concerning the improvements of the new
schedulers and future work in this area would be interesting as well.

Of course, you are very welcome if there are other topics you would
like to talk about, in the field of kernel and operating system
development.

In the previous years [3], talks in the OS topic were given by core
designers and developers of various free software projects, such as
the GNU Hurd (Marcus Brinkmann, Neal H.  Walfield), Kerrighed (Renaud
Lottiaux, Pascal Gallard), EROS and Coyotos (Jonathan Shapiro), Plan 9
(Charles Forsyth), openMosix (Moshe Bar), UserModeLinux (Jeff Dike).

Regards,

Thomas

[1] http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org
    http://lsm2004.abul.org/rubrique2.html
    http://lsm2003.abul.org/
[2] http://www.rmll.info/
    http://prog.rmll.info/wakka.php?wiki=ThemeKernel
[3] http://medias.2005.rencontresmondiales.org/topics/os/
    http://wiki.ael.be/rmll2003/index.php/ThemeOperatingSystem