This is a list of “microconferences”, which are working sessions which are designed to solve problems in the “plumbing” of Linux – kernel subsystems, core libraries, windowing system, etc. For more information, please see this description on the LPC web page, What is Linux Plumbing.

1. Android/Mobile
2. Checkpoint-Restart
3. Containers
4. Device Tree
5. FPGAs and programmable logic devices
6. git
7. Live kernel patching
8. PCI
9. Power Management and Energy-awareness
10. Testing & Fuzzing
11. TPMs
12. Tracing

Some ideas that were considered, but are NOT included this year are:

1. Boot, Init, and Config
2. CPU isolation
3. Development Tools (Tutorial/demos/presentations, not MC
4. File and Storage Systems
5. Graphics Mode Setting and Wayland
6. Internet of Things
7. LLVM
8. Networking (Dropped at runner's request)
9. Network offloading
10. Open Hardware (Dropped at runner's request)
11. Performance and Scalability
12. Persistent Memory
13. Real Time
14. Scheduler workloads
15. Security
16. Thermal