LinuxCon Japan 2012 | Presentations

Social vs Technical Engineering in the Kernel:What This Means for Japanese Developers

Although the kernel is built firmly on technical foundations, there is some social lubrication necessary for getting patches upstream. We'll explore some of this and also take a survey of what this means for Japanese developers and how they've adapted to it.

James Bottomley, Parallels

James Bottomley is CTO of Server Virtualisation at Parallels and Linux Kernel maintainer of the SCSI subsystem, PA-RISC Linux and the 53c700 set of drivers. He has made contributions in the areas of x86 architecture and SMP, filesystems, storage and memory management and coherency. He is currently a Director on the Board of the Linux Foundation and Chair of its Technical Advisory Board. He was born and grew up in the United Kingdom. He went to university at Cambridge in 1985 for both his undergraduate and doctoral degrees. He joined AT&T Bell labs in 1995 to work on Distributed Lock Manager technology for clustering. In 1997 he moved to the LifeKeeper High Availability project. In 2000 he helped found SteelEye Technology, Inc as Software Architect and later as Vice President and CTO. He joined Novell in 2008 as a Distinguished Engineer at Novell's SUSE Labs and Parallels in 2011.