FOSDEM 2010 Mobile/Embedded room

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi all,

In addition to the GNOME devroom (see http://live.gnome.org/Brussels2010
for more info) at FOSDEM this year, there will also be a mobile &
embedded devroom.

For some reason, their call for papers isn't online yet, but I've
attached it here. The deadline is in a couple of weeks, and I would love
to see some GNOME Mobile related content there (also, spread the word).

Cheers,
Dave.

-- 
Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
dneary gnome org

CALL FOR PAPERS for the 8th EMBEDDED and MOBILE track at FOSDEM 2010
=========================================================

sat 6 - sun 7 February 2010, Brussels

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

The 2010 edition of FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developers' European
Meeting; http://www.fosdem.org) will take place in Brussels, Belgium
on 6 and 7 February 2008. For the sixth time, a track on Embedded
Systems and Operating Systems will be organized. The fourth edition
was quite succesful and attracted up to 150 attendants for certain
topics.

For last year's program see:
http://archive.fosdem.org/2009/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 N900, 
Archos media players, TomTom navigation system, the numerous SOHO routers
and NAS devices based on linux. Let's not forget Samsungs Bada plans or 
Googles Android.

Operating System development has always been a very important topic in
Free Software.
As embeddedi, mobile and real-time systems typically have special OS
requirements, we organise this embedded and mobile 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. consumer electronics, NAS devices, routers, gateways, ... )

* 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, Maemo...)

* Multimedia applications for embedded systems
  (e.g. integer only decoders, gstreamer, interfacing with hardware media accelerators... )

* Real-time extensions, nanokernels and hardware virtualization software
  (e.g. RTAI, Adeos, KURT, L4, Qemu, User Mode Linux, VirtualLogix,
   high resolution timers, ...)
 
* Hard real-time OS's
  (eCos, RTEMS, Real Time Linux,...)

* Open hardware, DSP, softcores and general hardware management
  (e.g opencores.org, OpenRISC, leonSparc, FPGA's, 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_at_fosdem.org before 05/01/2010. 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:

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