OpenZFS Developer Summit 2016

The fourth annual OpenZFS Developer Summit will be held in San Francisco, California. All OpenZFS developers are invited to participate!

The goal of the event is to foster cross-community discussions of OpenZFS work and to make progress on some of the projects we have proposed. This 2-day event consisted of 1 day of presentation and a 1-day hackathon.

Thank You 2016 Sponsors!

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Presentations

Presentations on September 26th (Monday). Click on Title for more details on each talk.

Title	Speaker	Company
State of the Union	Matt Ahrens	Delphix
Keynote	Dustin Kirkland	Canonical
Lustre, Supercomputers, and ZFS	Brian Behlendorf	LLNL
ZFS and Containers	Michael Crogan
Channel Programs	Sara Hartse & Chris Williamson	Delphix
ZFS First Mount	Mark Shellenbaum	Oracle
Scrub/Resilver Performance	Saso Kiselkov	Nexenta
ZFS-Native Encryption	Tom Caputi	Datto
Fault Management	Don Brady	Intel
ZFS Validation & QA	Sydney Vanda & John Salinas	Intel
Noms database	Adam Leventhal	Sutter Hill Ventures

On day 2 of the event (September 27th, Hackathon), we will have lightning (5 minute) updates on the following projects which have been discussed at previous conferences:

Title	Speaker	Previous Talk
ABD solves large/fragmented memory	Dan Kimmel & David Chen	Slides Video (2015)
Eager Zero	George Wilson	Slides Video (2015)
Compressend Send and Receive	Dan Kimmel	Slides Video (2015)
Device Removal	Matt Ahrens	Slides Video (2014)
Parity Declustered RAID for ZFS (DRAID)	Isaac Huang	Slides Video (2015)
SPA Metadata Allocation Classes	Don Brady	Slides Video (2015)
Redacted send/receive	Paul Dagnelie	Slides Video (2015)
Channel Programs	Sara Hartse & Chris Williamson	Slides Video (2014) Slides Video (2013)
Persistent L2ARC and TRIM	Saso Kiselkov	Slides Video (2015)

Event

When

September 26 and 27, 2016

A detailed agenda will be announced at a later date.

Where

The conference will take place in San Francisco, with each day held at a different location within the city:

• Monday, September 26th (presentations) - Children's Creativity Museum, 221 4th St, San Francisco, CA 94103.
• Tuesday, September 27th (hackathon) - Location TBA

Registration

Developer Summit 2016 registration is now open!

• There will be no registration deadline - the registration will remain open until capacity is reached. There will be a waitlist in case tickets become available.
• Registration is $50 per attendee. If your company is a sponsor (as listed below), you may be eligible for a free registration. Please contact admin at open-zfs dot org once if that is the case. Speakers will also receive free registration.

All attendees are expected to contribute/participate. Your ideas and questions are what make the event exciting!

Sponsorship

Thank you for considering sponsoring the OpenZFS Developers Summit!

As an OpenZFS Dev Summit sponsor, you are providing critical support to our annual event, without which it would not be able to continue. Your generous contributions pay for the venue, food and beverage expenses, live streaming service, and other miscellaneous goods and services. There are multiple sponsorship opportunities for each package.

Please note that we are happy to customize a sponsorship package if you are willing to provide more or less support than specified by our packages.

We are also happy to accept non-monetary support, such as by webcasting and video recording the event, creating the badges, providing hackathon prizes, or designing the t-shirts. For this type of support, we match the sponsorship benefits to the level of effort/support you provide.

For more information or questions, please contact admin@open-zfs.org.

Sponsor Deadlines

August 29, 2016	Attendee registration deadline for reserved sponsor tickets. Attendees registered after this deadline may need to be placed on a waitlist.
September 1, 2016	Sponsorship confirmed, logo provided, and documentation returned in order to have logo included on OpenZFS Dev Summit 2016 conference t-shirt and conference signage
September 1, 2016	Sizes and quantities provided for extra t-shirts

Sponsorship Packages

	Platinum Beer Bash Hackathon	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Amount	$4,000	$2,000	$1,000	$500
Logo on the back of OpenZFS Dev Summit t-shirts	X
A dedicated table at venue for promotional purposes to display sponsor branded swag and any provided tablecloths	X
Space to put up the sponsoring company’s pop-up banner for display at venue	X
Home page acknowledgement with corporate name, logo, and link on open-zfs.org	X
Top of event page acknowledgement with corporate name, logo, and link on open-zfs.org	X	X
Ability to provide a number of sponsor branded swag types for promotional purposes	Unlimited	2	1
Reserved Free Conference Tickets	4	3	2	1
Extra t-shirts in chosen sizes sent to the sponsor	5	3	2	1
An opportunity to be known as an OpenZFS supporter in a very talented and influential community	X	X	X	X
Inclusion of company logo on a sponsor “thank you” banner for display at venue	X	X	X	X
Event page acknowledgement with corporate name, logo, and link on open-zfs.org	X	X	X	X
Permission to use OpenZFS Dev Summit logo on sponsor website	X	X	X	X
Mentioned as a “thank you” during the opening and closing of the event	X	X	X	X

Harrasment Policy

OpenZFS Developer Summit is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference venue, including talks. Conference participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the conference at the discretion of the conference organizers.

For information about last year's event, see the OpenZFS Developer Summit 2015 page.