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Hi, |
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This might be of interest to developers in the Free Software/Open Source |
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world. FOSDEM is looking for speakers for the embedded track again. |
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Anyone who thinks he/she has somebody interesting to share with other |
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embedded developers please take a look at the call for papers. |
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Cheers, |
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Philippe |
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CALL FOR PAPERS for the 6th EMBEDDED track at FOSDEM 2008 |
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sat 23 - sun 24 February 2008, Brussels |
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Call for papers |
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The 2008 edition of FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developers' European |
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Meeting; http://www.fosdem.org) will take place in Brussels, Belgium |
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on 23 and 24 February 2008. For the sixth time, a track on Embedded |
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Systems and Operating Systems will be organized. The fifth edition |
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was quite succesful and attracted up to 150 attendants for certain |
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topics. |
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For last year's program see: |
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http://archive.fosdem.org/2007/schedule/tracks/embedded |
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The use of Free Software in the infrastructure of Embedded Systems |
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is booming, e.g. by the use of Linux, uClinux, eCos, RedBoot, RTEMS |
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and many other Free Software components. More companies are supporting |
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Embedded Free Software every day because of the reliability and cheap |
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licensing. This can be confirmed from looking at some high profile |
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releases of embedded GNU/Linux systems. Some examples are the Nokia 770 |
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& N800,some models of Motorola's smartphones and Archos media players. |
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Not to forget the popular TomTom navigation system, the numerous SOHO |
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routers and NAS devices based on linux. |
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Operating System development has always been a very important topic in |
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Free Software. |
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As embedded and real-time systems typically have special OS |
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requirements, we organise this Free Embedded and OS development track at |
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FOSDEM to give people the opportunity to present their (or their teams) |
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achievements. |
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This track at FOSDEM provides a remarkable opportunity to present and |
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discuss the ongoing work in these areas, and we invite developers to |
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present their current projects. Technical topics of the conference |
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include but are not limited to : |
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* OS Development : kernel architecture and implementation, libraries, |
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power |
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management, TIPC, boot time and memory usage optimizations |
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(e.g. Linux, BSD, uClinux, uClibc, newlib, slob allocator,...) |
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* Practical experiences in implementing Free Software in embedded |
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systems (e.g. reverse engineering, porting to (and adapting of) |
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commercial devices like the Ipaq, linksys WRT54G, nlsu2 .... ) |
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* Toolchain, performance testing and build environment |
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(e.g. crosstool, emdebian, openembedded, PTX dist, packaging, |
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scratchbox, Eclipse, Valgrind,...) |
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* GUIs for embedded systems |
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(Gtk, Qt-(embedded), GPE, Qtopia, UI design with touchscreen, |
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Hildon GUI extensions, OpenMoko, OpenGL ES, ...) |
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* Multimedia applications for embedded systems |
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(e.g. integer only decoders, Opieplayer, gstreamer... ) |
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* Real-time extensions, nanokernels and hardware virtualization software |
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(e.g. RTAI, Adeos, KURT, L4, Qemu, User Mode Linux, VirtualLogix, |
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high resolution timers, ...) |
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* Hard real-time OS's |
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(eCos, RTEMS, Real Time Linux,...) |
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* Open hardware, DSP, softcores and general hardware management |
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(e.g opencores.org, OpenRISC, leonSparc, FPGA's, specific design |
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restrictions for free systems, DSP, Power management...) |
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* Safety and security certifications applied to Free software |
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(e.g. security measures in Embedded systems, TPM, SELinux |
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for embedded, TrustZone, ...) |
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* Tools and techniques for programming multicore systems |
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* Free software licenses and embedded systems |
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Authors that wish to present a topic are requested to submit their |
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abstracts online to embedded@××××××.org before 23/01/2008. Notification |
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of receipt will be sent within 48 hours. Authors wishing to submit a |
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full paper (between 6 and 12 A4 pages), can do so in PS or PDF format. |
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The Program Committee will evaluate the abstracts and consists of: |
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* Geert Uytterhoeven, Sony NSCE, Belgium |
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* Peter De Schrijver (p2), Nokia (OSSO), Finland |
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* Philippe De Swert, Nokia (OSSO), Finland |
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* Klaas van Gend, MontaVista Software, The Netherlands |
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* Michael Opdenacker, Free Electrons, France |
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