The Samba Team will be running a CIFS Engineering Workshop event hosted at the Google Campus in Mountain View, California, USA on September 26-28th 2007.
This event is intended for engineers working on any CIFS products and services, not just products based on the Samba codebase. We welcome engineers from any implementers of the CIFS and SMB2 protocols, or from people shipping products based on these protocols, or people with a deep interest in advancing the standardization of these protocols.
This is not a marketing or customer focused event, the intent is that engineers will get together and discuss protocol details and implementation choices in an open and free environment, helped along with free Google food and a gigabit network for testing. There will be some arranged talks, but mostly this will be an interoperability event.
There will be some restrictions on using information gathered at the event for marketing purposes in the same way as the Connectathon event restricts using any performance or defect data learned at the event. The goal is for engineers from competing companies to feel free to work together without fear of revealing information they wish to keep secret.
There is no charge for attending, but as this event will be hosted on the Google Campus space will be limited, so if you would like to attend or send engineers to this event please email :
as soon as possible so we can get an idea of the numbers involved (and help Google with planning). If you'd like to present a talk, please send a brief abstract to the same address. Currently the same review board who accepts talks for SambaXP will review the abstracts, but if this event is successful a more formal review process will be adopted.
Samba Team members present:
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