FreeBSD Developers Summit at BSDCan 2023

We are happy to announce that there will be an in-person developers'
summit at BSDCan 2023.  As with previous summits at BSDCan we are
planning for a two day summit overlapping with BSDCan's tutorial days
on Wednesday, May 17th and Thursday, May 18th.  Similar to previous
years, each day will consist of presentations in the morning and
working group sessions in the afternoon.

Working groups should contain a small number of people (<= 30) focused
on a particular topic whose output is a specific plan.  Topics should
be narrow in focus as broad topics result in a large group that rarely
produces concise, usable output.  Each working group will need a
chairperson to drive the group and will have a dedicated room with A/V
equipment, tables, chairs, etc.  A group can either meet for a single
session (roughly 1.5-2 hours) or for two sessions (3-4 hours total).

Some possible working group topics include:
    - Bug Busting and Triage
    - Network Performance
    - FreeBSD on Laptops (Graphics / Wireless)
    - Fault Management
    - NVMe over Fabrics
    - Development Tools (lldb, valgrind)
    - Pre-commit Testing and CI
    - Hibernation
    - Designing a Power Management Framework
    - Packaged Base

We are now looking for proposals for working groups.  Each proposal
must include the following:

- A chairperson who will be responsible for making this group work.  A
    chair may delegate work to other folks, but one person should have
    the final say rather than a committee.

- A single paragraph abstract giving a brief overview of what the
    working group session will cover and what goals you wish to achieve.

- A possible guest list to identify individuals known to be interested
    and working on the topic.  The proposal should also include a list
    of individuals that you feel must be present for the group to be a
    success.

- An agenda with specific topics that the session will cover.

In addition, each working group chairperson will be responsible for
recruiting one or more scribes (note takers) to be present during the
group and for using these notes to generate a written summary of the
group that will be published on hackers@ after the summit is
completed.

These proposals should be sent to devsummit@FreeBSD.org by March 15,
2023.  Getting proposals in earlier would be ideal.

We are also looking for proposals for a small number of presentations.
Presentations normally run about 45 minutes leaving additional time
for any Q&A.  Talk proposals should include a title, speaker, and
brief abstract and be sent to devsummit@FreeBSD.org.

Those of us fortunate enough to attend EuroBSDCon in Vienna this fall
certainly enjoyed the opportunity to meet together again.  We are
looking forward to seeing many of you this May.

-- 
John Baldwin