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Hi all,

As in previous years, the program committee will consider people from a
list of potential nominees.  To quote from a message from Jonathan
Corbet documenting the process from previous years (with a few light
edits from your humble chair):

quoted text
>The Kernel Summit program committee will soon start the process of
>figuring out who to invite for this year's event.  Feedback from past years
>suggests that, to some, the invitation process looks a bit like a
>smoke-filled room, cabal-building exercise.  This message is an attempt to
>make the selection process a bit more transparent.
>
>It is worth noting that the invitation-only nature of the summit, by
>definition, implies that some people will be excluded.  It seems inevitable
>that, in a development community this large, the invitation list will fail
>to include some developers whose contributions are large and who could
>certainly bring something positive to the summit.  That is an unfortunate
>result, and one which should be minimized.  It is, however, hard to see how
>the meeting could be enlarged without changing its nature and causing other
>important participants to drop out.  So the summit is likely to remain
>invitation-only, and at its current size.  
>
>The selection algorithm has, in recent years, worked something like this:
>
> - A list of potential invitees is put together.  Sources of names include
>   the previous year's list, people who have contributed to the kernel over
>   the previous year, and explicit nominations.  Anybody is welcome to
>   submit nominations by sending a message to the ksummit-2008-pc
>   list.
>
> - A certain number of slots are pre-assigned.  The program committee, in
>   its arrogance, invites itself to the event.  Major sponsors for
>   the summit get a slot for a representative.
>
> - Each member of the program committee gives each potential attendee a
>   rating between one and five points, depending on that attendee's
>   perceived contribution to the event.  At the end of this process, the
>   bulk of the slots are filled by the people getting the highest votes.
>   That's how people like Linus get their invitations
>
> - The remaining slots are filled based on discussions within the
>   committee.  In filling these slots, an emphasis is placed on ensuring
>   that most major subsystems and architectures are represented and that
>   the people needed to discuss the anticipated hot topics will be
>   present.  There is also an attempt to ensure that a certain amount of
>   "new blood" is brought in.
>
> - A few slots are reserved so that there is room to invite people whose
>   importance becomes clear as the agenda is worked out.
>
>  - A few slots (usually 5) are also chosen from the MAINTAINERS file.
>
>What the committee wants to do, in the end, is to put together an event
>that helps the kernel development community be active, connected, and
>coherent over the coming year.

This year, we're starting a bit late (mea culpa), so I'd like to start
this process going sooner rather than later.  I've assembled a list of
people who have contributed significantly to the kernel in recent months
(since September 2007), as measured by Signed-off-by's and Acked-by's.
This list also includes people who were invited to the kernel summit
list year, but which didn't meet the above criteria.  (Interestingly,
adding previously invited kernel summit attendees only increased the
list by 9.)

Obviously, this is only a starting point, and may omit some critical
people, and may include people who have done nothing more than
mechanical syntax changes.  The latter is handled by the program
committee, as described above, and the former is handled by *you*.

If you would believe there is anyone who is not on the list attached
below, but which you think should be considered by the kernel summit
program committee, please send nominations (self-nominations are
allowed) to the ksummit-2008-pc mailing list at
lists.linux-foundation.org.

Thanks, regards,

						- Ted

Adrian Bunk
Akinobu Mita
Al Viro
Alan Cox
Alan Stern
Alasdair G Kergon
Alexey Dobriyan
Alexey Starikovskiy
Andi Kleen
Andres Salomon
Andrew Morton
Andrew Vasquez
Andrew Victor
Aneesh Kumar K.V
Anton Blanchard
Anton Vorontsov
Antonino Daplas
Arjan van de Ven
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Arnd Bergmann
Artem Bityutskiy
Atsushi Nemoto
Auke Kok
Avi Kivity
Balbir Singh
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Ben Dooks
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Benjamin Thery
Bjorn Helgaas
Boaz Harrosh
Bob Moore
Borislav Petkov
Bryan Wu
Carsten Otte
Chris Mason
Chris Wright
Christoph Hellwig
Christoph Lameter
Chuck Lever
Clemens Ladisch
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Cyrill Gorcunov
Dan Williams
Daniel Lezcano
Daniel Walker
Dave Airlie
Dave Jones
David Brownell
David Chinner
David Gibson
David Howells
David S. Miller
David Teigland
David Woodhouse
Davide Libenzi
Deepak Saxena
Denis Cheng
Denis V. Lunev
Dirk Hohndel
Dmitry Torokhov
Eric Dumazet
Eric Miao
Eric Paris
Eric Sandeen
Eric W. Biederman
Evgeniy Polyakov
FUJITA Tomonori
Francois Romieu
Geert Uytterhoeven
Geoff Levand
Gerrit Huizenga
Gerrit Renker
Glauber Costa
Glauber de Oliveira Costa
Grant Likely
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Greg Ungerer
H. Peter Anvin
Haavard Skinnemoen
Hans Verkuil
Harvey Harrison
Heiko Carstens
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Herbert Xu
Holger Schurig
Hugh Dickins
Ian McDonald
Ilpo Järvinen
Ingo Molnar
Ivo van Doorn
J. Bruce Fields
James Bottomley
James Morris
Jan Beulich
Jan Engelhardt
Jan Kara
Jarod Wilson
Jaroslav Kysela
Jean Delvare
Jeff Dike
Jeff Garzik
Jeff Layton
Jens Axboe
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Jeremy Kerr
Jesper Juhl
Jiri Kosina
Jiri Slaby
Joe Perches
Joel Becker
Johannes Berg
John W. Linville
Jonathon Corbet	
Josh Boyer
Julia Lawall
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Kay Sievers
Kristen Carlson Accardi
Krzysztof Helt
Kumar Gala
Kyle McMartin
Lachlan McIlroy
Len Brown
Lennert Buytenhek
Li Zefan
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Maciej W. Rozycki
Magnus Damm
Marcin Slusarz
Mark Brown
Mark Fasheh
Mark Lord
Mark M. Hoffman
Martin Schwidefsky
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Rafael J. Wysocki
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Ralph Campbell
Randy Dunlap
Reinette Chatre
Rene Herman
Richard Purdie
Robert P. J. Day
Roel Kluin
Roland Dreier
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Ron Rindjunsky
Russell King
Rusty Russell
Sam Ravnborg
Scott Wood
Sebastian Siewior
Sergei Shtylyov
Stefan Richter
Stefan Roese
Stefano Brivio
Stephen Hemminger
Stephen Rothwell
Steve French
Steve Hemminger
Steven Rostedt
Steven Toth
Steven Whitehouse
Suparna Bhattacharya
Takashi Iwai
Tejun Heo
Theodore Ts'o
Thomas Bogendoerfer
Thomas Gleixner
Tim Shimmin
Tom Tucker
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Tony Lindgren
Tony Luck
Trent Piepho
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