The Linux Kernel Developers Summit (also known as the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit) is an annual gathering of the top Linux kernel developers. Attendance at the summit is by invitation only, and the conference was first held in San Jose in March 2001. It was organized by Theodore Ts'o to provide a face to face venue for kernel developers to discuss current and future issues surrounding Linux kernel development, and was initially run by Usenix and then VA Linux's Open Source Developer's Network. Subsequent summits from 2002 to 2006 were held the two days prior to the Ottawa Linux Symposium in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada at the same conference center with Usenix providing all of the logistical support. The 2007 Kernel Summit was held on September 4–6, 2007 at the DeVere University Arms Hotel in Cambridge, England, and was the first time the summit was moved outside of North America.
Content The discussions at the kernel summit have traditionally been highly technical, with a focus on issues that were not getting resolution via electronic mail. In recent years, however, the summit has been gradually focusing more on higher level development process issues. An example of an important development process decision made at the kernel summit was the decision to move to a rolling stable 2.6 kernel every few months, instead of the formerly used model using a 1–2-year development cycle. The Linux Technical Advisory Board is elected at a bird-of-a-feather session at the Linux Kernel Summit.
The summit usually hosts around 80 attendees.
Summit locations Date Host country Location Website Summary 31, 2001 Hyatt Hotel, San Jose, CA 25, 2002 Ottawa Congress Centre, Ottawa, Ontario 22, 2003 Ottawa Congress Centre, Ottawa, Ontario 20, 2004 Ottawa Congress Centre, Ottawa, Ontario 19, 2005 Ottawa Congress Centre, Ottawa, Ontario 18, 2006 Ottawa Congress Centre, Ottawa, Ontario 6, 2007 DeVere University Arms Hotel, Cambridge 16, 2008 Portland State University, Portland, OR 20, 2009 Akihabara Convention Hall, Akihabara, Tokyo 2, 2010 Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Cambridge, MA 25, 2011 Clarion Congress Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic 29, 2012 San Diego, CA N/A 25, 2013 Edinburgh, United Kingdom 20, 2014 Sheraton Chicago, Chicago, IL 28, 2015 Conrad Hotel, Seoul, South Korea November 1, 2016 Santa Fe Convention Center, Santa Fe, NM 26, 2017 Hilton Prague, Prague Czech Republic 15, 2018 Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre, Vancouver, Canada Corinthia Hotel Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal Virtual Dublin, Ireland Richmond, Virginia Vienna, Austria Tokyo
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