Re: OpenEmbedded @ FOSDEM - CfP - deadline: 2008-12-20

Re: OpenEmbedded @ FOSDEM - CfP - deadline: 2008-12-20

[Philippe De Swert]

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Hello all,

> Hi,
> as you read in the last mail OpenEmbedded will not get it own room at
> the upcomming FOSDEM. Nevertheless you will have the chance of
> presenting your OE-related talk as part of the 'Embedded devroom'.
>
> The Embedded devroom is organized by Philippe de Swert. So eventually
> all organisation stuff concerning the room and your talk has to be done
> with him.

Corrext.

> As it looks we will only have ~60 min. Normally that is the duration for
> one talk. However experiences gained in other devrooms in the preceding
> years have shown that it is more interesting for the visitors to get to
> know many topics in a short time. That is why I propose that talks
> should be around 10-15 min. That way we can present 4-6 OE-related
> topics ... it also means that less preparation time is needed for the
> one who does the talk. :)

Seems we had a miscommunication here. Of course we can give more time to
handle OE related projects. However it might be beneficial to group a number
of small projects together. So feel free to submit presentations and topics
for a full presentation slot (1h slot, about 45min talking).

Regards,

Philippe

PS: I attached the Fosdem call for papers, so spread it if you feel like it :)


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For those that are interested:

CALL FOR PAPERS for the 6th EMBEDDED track at FOSDEM 2009
=========================================================

sat 7 - sun 8 February 2009, Brussels

Call for papers
----------------

The 2009 edition of FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developers' European
Meeting; http://www.fosdem.org) will take place in Brussels, Belgium 
on 7 and 8 February 2009. For the seventh time, a track on Embedded 
Systems and Operating Systems will be organized. The sixth edition 
was quite succesful and attracted up to 150 attendants for certain
topics.

For last year's program see:
http://archive.fosdem.org/2008/schedule/tracks/embedded

The use of Free Software in the infrastructure of Embedded Systems 
is booming, e.g. by the use of Linux, uClinux, eCos, RedBoot, RTEMS 
and many other Free Software components. More companies are supporting
Embedded Free Software every day because of the reliability and cheap
licensing. This can be confirmed from looking at some high profile
releases of embedded GNU/Linux systems. Some examples are the Nokia N810,
Android based smartphones, camera's and televisions. Not to 
forget the popular TomTom navigation system, the numerous SOHO routers 
and NAS devices based on linux.

Operating System development has always been a very important topic in
Free Software.
As embedded and real-time systems typically have special OS
requirements, we organise this Free Embedded and OS development track at
FOSDEM to give people the opportunity to present their (or their teams)
achievements.

This track at FOSDEM provides a remarkable opportunity to present and
discuss the ongoing work in these areas, and we invite developers to 
present their current projects. Technical topics of the conference 
include but are not limited to :

* OS Development : kernel architecture and implementation, libraries, power 
   management, TIPC, boot time and memory usage optimizations
  (e.g. Linux, BSD, uClinux, uClibc, newlib, slob allocator,...)

* Practical experiences in implementing Free Software in embedded
  systems  (e.g. reverse engineering, porting  to (and adapting of)
  commercial devices like the PSP, linksys WRT54G, nlsu2, Apple IPhone )

* Toolchain, performance testing and build environment 
  (e.g. crosstool, emdebian, openembedded, PTX dist, packaging,
scratchbox, Eclipse, Valgrind,...)

* GUIs for embedded systems
  (Gtk, Qt-(embedded), GPE, Qtopia, UI design with touchscreen, 
   Hildon GUI extensions, OpenMoko, OpenGL ES, ...)

* Multimedia applications for embedded systems
  (e.g. integer only decoders, Opieplayer, gstreamer... )

* Real-time extensions, nanokernels and hardware virtualization software
  (e.g. Xenomai, Adeos, KURT, L4, Qemu, ...)
 
* Hard real-time OS's
  (eCos, RTEMS, Real Time Linux,...)

* Open hardware, DSP, softcores and general hardware management
  (e.g opencores.org, Beagleboard, leonSparc, FPGA's, Arduino,
   specific design restrictions for free systems, DSP, Power management...)

* Safety and security certifications applied to Free software
   (e.g. security measures in Embedded systems, TPM, SELinux
    for embedded, TrustZone, ...)

* Tools and techniques for programming multicore systems

* Free software licenses and embedded systems

Authors that wish to present a topic are requested to submit their
abstracts online to embedded@fosdem.org before 04/01/2009. Notification
of receipt will be sent within 48 hours. Authors wishing to submit a
full paper (between 6 and 12 A4 pages), can do so in PS or PDF format.

The Program Committee will evaluate the abstracts and consists of:

* Philippe De Swert, Nokia (Maemo), Finland
* Geert Uytterhoeven, Sony Techsoft Centre Europe, Belgium
* Peter De Schrijver (p2), Nokia (Maemo), Finland
* Klaas van Gend, MontaVista Software, The Netherlands
* Michael Opdenacker, Free Electrons, France

Re: OpenEmbedded @ FOSDEM - CfP - deadline: 2008-12-20

[Philippe De Swert]

Hi all,

On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 07:34 +0100, Robert Schuster wrote:
> Hi,
> as you read in the last mail OpenEmbedded will not get it own room at
> the upcomming FOSDEM. Nevertheless you will have the chance of
> presenting your OE-related talk as part of the 'Embedded devroom'.
> 
> The Embedded devroom is organized by Philippe de Swert. So eventually
> all organisation stuff concerning the room and your talk has to be done
> with him.

Anybody having submitted anything as I have not recieved anything yet
and really need to make the program...

Please send stuff to me directly to be sure I got it.

Thank you,

Philippe

OpenEmbedded @ FOSDEM - CfP - deadline: 2008-12-20

[Robert Schuster]

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Hi,
as you read in the last mail OpenEmbedded will not get it own room at
the upcomming FOSDEM. Nevertheless you will have the chance of
presenting your OE-related talk as part of the 'Embedded devroom'.

The Embedded devroom is organized by Philippe de Swert. So eventually
all organisation stuff concerning the room and your talk has to be done
with him.

As it looks we will only have ~60 min. Normally that is the duration for
one talk. However experiences gained in other devrooms in the preceding
years have shown that it is more interesting for the visitors to get to
know many topics in a short time. That is why I propose that talks
should be around 10-15 min. That way we can present 4-6 OE-related
topics ... it also means that less preparation time is needed for the
one who does the talk. :)

If you want to do a talk at FOSDEM please reply to this mail, describe
your topic and the amount of time you need.

In order to make it possible for Phillipe to organise the schedule for
the Embedded devroom I want to tell him our demands at 2008-12-20. So
this date is the deadline for talk proposals.

-

Regarding the hack session: Since there are only 60 minutes of
'OpenEmbedded' time in the Embedded devroom I think we should find a
nice location with wifi offside FOSDEM.

Regards
Robert



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