On Oct 15, 2009, at 10:45 AM, Chris Lattner wrote:> Unfortunately, we found out at the last minute that Apple has a rule > which prevents its engineers from giving video taped talks or > distributing slides. We will hold onto the video and slide assets in > case this rule changes in the future. > > -ChrisChris, I hope you can pass my message along to the people at Apple who made this decision. --- I want to request Apple to make an exception and release the videos and slides of presentations by Apple employees at the LLVM Developers' Meeting. Several Apple employees now have a leadership role in the LLVM community, although LLVM remains a widely used open source software project. Their presentations at the LLVM developers' meeting are an important component of how we help support LLVM users. The presentations clearly reveal no confidential Apple information; in fact, they were presented in front of a large number of external participants. While we appreciate Apple's continued support of LLVM and of the Developers' Meeting, the goodwill generated is being undermined by this policy to withhold important technical information from other LLVM users, and for little benefit to Apple. --Vikram Adve ---------------------------------------------------------------------- VIKRAM S. ADVE Associate Professor, Computer Science E-MAIL: vadve at cs.uiuc.edu Siebel Center for Computer Science PHONE: (217) 244-2016 Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign FAX: (217) 244-6500 201 N. Goodwin Ave. Urbana IL 61801-2302. http://llvm.org/~vadve ----------------------------------------------------------------------
I too am disappointed that not all talk slides are posted. To me it speaks poorly of the whole meeting since there were parallel sessions and not everyone could attend in person all the sessions they wanted to. The slides are, I thought, meant to be like the "proceedings" and If I recall some of the Apple slides are present from previous years but not this year. Vinod On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Vikram S. Adve <vadve at illinois.edu> wrote:> > On Oct 15, 2009, at 10:45 AM, Chris Lattner wrote: > > > Unfortunately, we found out at the last minute that Apple has a rule > > which prevents its engineers from giving video taped talks or > > distributing slides. We will hold onto the video and slide assets in > > case this rule changes in the future. > > > > -Chris > > > Chris, > > I hope you can pass my message along to the people at Apple who made > this decision. > --- > > I want to request Apple to make an exception and release the videos > and slides of presentations by Apple employees at the LLVM Developers' > Meeting. Several Apple employees now have a leadership role in the > LLVM community, although LLVM remains a widely used open source > software project. Their presentations at the LLVM developers' meeting > are an important component of how we help support LLVM users. The > presentations clearly reveal no confidential Apple information; in > fact, they were presented in front of a large number of external > participants. While we appreciate Apple's continued support of LLVM > and of the Developers' Meeting, the goodwill generated is being > undermined by this policy to withhold important technical information > from other LLVM users, and for little benefit to Apple. > > --Vikram Adve > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > VIKRAM S. ADVE > Associate Professor, Computer Science E-MAIL: vadve at cs.uiuc.edu > Siebel Center for Computer Science PHONE: (217) 244-2016 > Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign FAX: (217) 244-6500 > 201 N. Goodwin Ave. > Urbana IL 61801-2302. http://llvm.org/~vadve<http://llvm.org/%7Evadve> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > LLVM Developers mailing list > LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20091018/1058b803/attachment.html>
I've never heard of anyone forbidding their workers to distribute videos of their non-secret-revealing talks. Most tech companies want to broadcast far and wide the talent of their people, and having them give public talks and publicly distribute videos of same seems like a good way to do that.>> I hope you can pass my message along to the people at Apple who made >> this decision. >> --- >> >> I want to request Apple to make an exception and release the videos >> and slides of presentations by Apple employees at the LLVM Developers' >> Meeting. Several Apple employees now have a leadership role in the >> LLVM community, although LLVM remains a widely used open source >> software project. Their presentations at the LLVM developers' meeting >> are an important component of how we help support LLVM users. The >> presentations clearly reveal no confidential Apple information; in >> fact, they were presented in front of a large number of external >> participants. While we appreciate Apple's continued support of LLVM >> and of the Developers' Meeting, the goodwill generated is being >> undermined by this policy to withhold important technical information >> from other LLVM users, and for little benefit to Apple. >> >> --Vikram Adve >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> VIKRAM S. ADVE >> Associate Professor, Computer Science E-MAIL: vadve at cs.uiuc.edu >> Siebel Center for Computer Science PHONE: (217) 244-2016 >> Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign FAX: (217) 244-6500 >> 201 N. Goodwin Ave. >> Urbana IL 61801-2302. http://llvm.org/~vadve >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LLVM Developers mailing list >> LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu >> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev > > > _______________________________________________ > LLVM Developers mailing list > LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev > >