Re: LSF/MM/BPF: 2026: Call for Proposals

[James Bottomley]

On Tue, 2026-02-24 at 10:53 +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > Don't forget to pester^wask^wremind your respective organizations
> > to sponsor LSF/MM/BPF 2026! If it helps, you can tell them that
> > we're considering renaming it LSF/MM/BPF/AI.
> 
> I have just looked at the sponsorship site for LSF/MM/BPF/AI again
> and we all really need to go out and go steal some of that AI funding
> money and funnel it into one of the conferences that really drives
> development of the operating system that drives the compute for all
> of this.
> 
> Please go and remind your organizations to sponsor. They should know
> how to get in touch with the Linux Foundation. Just going by the
> sponsorship page we're missing a bunch of large organizations that we
> would appreciate if they decided to pitch in. :)

Just on this point, at least for Linux Plumbers Conference, we've found
that increasingly OSPOs (which usually hold the LF contacts) are
aligned with Marketing organizations and don't see as much value in
sponsoring pure engineering events (like LSF and LPC).  We've thus
started getting our money from the Engineering organizations themselves
(where you are all better placed to wield influence).  To convince your
engineering management chain (who may never have done this before) you
need to articulate the value (it's the place where Linux features
you're working on get presented, discussed and decided so a good
showing by your engineers can drastically shorten the time to
acceptance of something, or actually set direction better than a
mailing list discussion, which provides more roadmap certainty for VPs)
and provide the details, so the sponsor prospectus is here:

http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sponsor-lsfmm-bp-f26

You have to go high enough in your organization to find someone with an
actual budget, which can be a bit daunting, so if you need outside
help, the PC (lsf-pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) will be able to help
articulate the value once you've found the person to convince.

If you manage to convince them to sponsor, the address to request a
contract and a PO is

sponsorships@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Regards,

James