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From: Philippe De Swert <philippedeswert@×××××××.be>
To: gentoo-embedded <gentoo-embedded@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-embedded] FOSDEM embedded room looks for speakers
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:04:20
Message-Id: J9WMWG$33B13AE9FCB5E7C95FA401C4D7C72235@scarlet.be
1 Hi people,
2
3 Soon it will be FOSDEM again, which is a free developer conference in Brussels
4 end of February 2007. For this we are looking for speakers willing to present
5 their (or their teams) work.
6
7 CALL FOR PAPERS for the 5th EMBEDDED track at FOSDEM 2007
8 =========================================================
9
10 sat 24 - sun 25 February 2007, Brussels
11
12 Call for papers
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14
15 The 2007 edition of FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developers' European
16 Meeting; http://www.fosdem.org) will take place in Brussels, Belgium
17 on 24 and 25 February 2007. For the fifth time, a track on Embedded
18 Systems and Operating Systems will be organized. The fourth edition
19 was quite succesful and attracted up to 150 attendants for certain
20 topics.
21
22 For last year's program see:
23 http://www.embedded-kernel-track.org/2006/papers.html
24
25 The use of Free Software in the infrastructure of Embedded Systems
26 is booming, e.g. by the use of Linux, uClinux, eCos, RedBoot, RTEMS
27 and many other Free Software components. More companies are supporting
28 Embedded Free Software every day because of the reliability and cheap
29 licensing. This can be confirmed from looking at some high profile
30 releases of embedded GNU/Linux systems. Some examples are the Nokia 770,
31 some models of Motorola's smartphones and Archos media players. Not to
32 forget the popular TomTom navigation system, the numerous SOHO routers
33 and NAS devices based on linux.
34
35 Operating System development has always been a very important topic in
36 Free Software.
37 As embedded and real-time systems typically have special OS
38 requirements, we organise this Free Embedded and OS development track at
39 FOSDEM to give people the opportunity to present their (or their teams)
40 achievements.
41
42 This track at FOSDEM provides a remarkable opportunity to present and
43 discuss the ongoing work in these areas, and we invite developers to
44 present their current projects. Technical topics of the conference
45 include but are not limited to :
46
47 * OS Development : kernel architecture and implementation, libraries, power
48 management, TIPC, boot time and memory usage optimizations
49 (e.g. Linux, BSD, uClinux, uClibc, newlib, slob allocator,...)
50
51 * Practical experiences in implementing Free Software in embedded
52 systems (e.g. reverse engineering, porting to (and adapting of)
53 commercial devices like the Ipaq, linksys WRT54G, nlsu2 .... )
54
55 * Toolchain, performance testing and build environment
56 (e.g. crosstool, emdebian, openembedded, PTX dist, packaging,
57 scratchbox, Eclipse, Valgrind,...)
58
59 * GUIs for embedded systems
60 (Gtk, Qt-(embedded), GPE, Qtopia, UI design with touchscreen,
61 Hildon GUI extensions, OpenMoko, OpenGL ES, ...)
62
63 * Multimedia applications for embedded systems
64 (e.g. integer only decoders, Opieplayer, gstreamer... )
65
66 * Real-time extensions, nanokernels and hardware virtualization software
67 (e.g. RTAI, Adeos, KURT, L4, Qemu, User Mode Linux, VirtualLogix,
68 high resolution timers, ...)
69
70 * Hard real-time OS's
71 (eCos, RTEMS, Real Time Linux,...)
72
73 * Open hardware, DSP, softcores and general hardware management
74 (e.g opencores.org, OpenRISC, leonSparc, FPGA's, specific design
75 restrictions for free systems, DSP, Power management...)
76
77 * Safety and security certifications applied to Free software
78 (e.g. security measures in Embedded systems, TPM, SELinux
79 for embedded, TrustZone, ...)
80
81 * Tools and techniques for programming multicore systems
82
83 * Free software licenses and embedded systems
84
85 Authors that wish to present a topic are requested to submit their
86 abstracts online to embedded@××××××.org before 14/01/2007. Notification
87 of receipt will be sent within 48 hours. Authors wishing to submit a
88 full paper (between 6 and 12 A4 pages), can do so in PS or PDF format.
89
90 The Program Committee will evaluate the abstracts and consists of:
91
92 * Geert Uytterhoeven, Sony NSCE, Belgium
93 * Peter De Schrijver (p2), Essensium, Belgium
94 * Philippe De Swert, Nokia (OSSO), Finland
95 * Klaas van Gend, MontaVista Software, The Netherlands
96
97 Cheers,
98
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