Several possible solutions have been raised, discussion is on-going. Consensus seems to be that kernel 2.2 is too large a change for slink at this point, but all packages should be made to work with it. In related news, new boot-floppies for slink are out and use kernel 2.0.36. Martin Schulze is looking for submissions to be used on the press release but has gotten little feedback yet. He feels progress on getting slink releasable is too slow and it is becoming quickly outdated in the meantime.
Reaction is very mixed.
Contrast to TheBazaar which may provide a free booth, as did the Atlanta Linux Showcase. There's been some discussion about making packages log important install-time notes to a file instead of just displaying it on the screen, and the best way to implement that. Several prototype logging tools have been written. The incoming directory there is read-only. This has been preventing bug fixes to packages in non-us for a while now.