We have started working on Kernel Recipes more than 10 years ago. The main goal was to create a yearly meeting in France and give the opportunity to meet the guys involved in kernel.org. But we wanted to organize it so that it can be less formal and more "human" than most of the existing meeting in Europe or in the US. That's why the max number of expected people is about 150. There is no main line for the talks but rather quite an open one: current burning topics, future of Linux kernel development, project organization, security, relations with other free software projects, relations with hardware manufacturers.
All talks are organized in a single room so that people do not have to choose what talks they should attend. Priority is given to pedagogy and exchanges between attendees and speakers. A lunch is offered for each day so that people can discuss some more and we use to have social events at the end of each days.