This year, the Maintainers Summit will be held in Tokyo, Japan on Wednesday, December 10th, 2025, just before the Linux Plumber's Conference (December 11 -- 13th). As in previous years, the Maintainers Summit is invite-only, where the primary focus will be process issues around Linux Kernel Development. It will be limited to 30 invitees and a handful of sponsored attendees. Linus has generated a list of people for the program committee to consider. People who suggest topics that should be discussed at the Maintainers Summit will also be added to the list for consideration. To make topic suggestions for the Maintainers Summit, please send e-mail to ksummit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject prefix of [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT]. Late submissions will be considered, but people submit submissions before September 10th will be considered for receiving an invite. Invitations may be issued after that date, but only on a space-availale basis. For an examples of past Maintainers Summit topics, please see the these LWN articles: * 2025 https://lwn.net/Articles/990740/ * 2024 https://lwn.net/Articles/951847/ * 2022 https://lwn.net/Articles/908320/ Related to the Maintainer's Summit, the Kernel Summit is organized as a track which is run in parallel with the other tracks at the Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC), and is open to all registered attendees of LPC. The goal of the Kernel Summit track will be to provide a forum to discuss specific technical issues that would be easier to resolve in person than over e-mail. The program committee will also consider "information sharing" topics if they are clearly of interest to the wider development community (i.e., advanced training in topics that would be useful to kernel developers). To suggest a topic for the Kernel Summit, please do two things. by September 10th, 2025. First, please send e-mail with a subject prefix of [TECH TOPIC] to ksummit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. As before, please use a separate e-mail for each topic. Secondly, please create a topic at the Linux Plumbers Conference proposal submission site and target it to the Kernel Summit track: https://lpc.events/event/19/abstracts Please do both steps. I'll try to notice if someone forgets one or the other, but your chances of making sure your proposal gets the necessary attention and consideration are maximized by submitting both to the mailing list and the web site. The program committee this year is composed of the following people: Christian Brauner Jon Corbet Greg KH Ted Ts'o Rafael J. Wysocki
