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CELF stuff. Tim Bird Sony Electronics CE Linux Forum Architecture Group Chair. Outline. CELF Super-quick Overview Community Effect CELF Resources CELF Conferences Ottawa Linux Symposium. CELF Super-quick Overview. CELF Mission: improve Linux for use in CE products
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CELF stuff Tim Bird Sony Electronics CE Linux Forum Architecture Group Chair
Outline • CELF Super-quick Overview • Community Effect • CELF Resources • CELF Conferences • Ottawa Linux Symposium
CELF Super-quick Overview • CELF Mission: improve Linux for use in CE products • We find areas where Linux can be improved for CE products • Then we fix them
CELF Super-quick Overview • We find areas where Linux can be improved for CE products • Then we fix them • By “we”, I mean YOU
CELF Super-quick Overview • We find areas where Linux can be improved for CE products • Then we fix them • By “we”, I mean YOU • What does CELF do?
CELF’s Main Strategy CELF tries to help build community effect for embedded linux developers.
Community Effect • Open Source is built on communication and “community effect” • Open Source system multiplies your efforts
CELF Public Resources • WIKI • Mailing list • Conferences • Test Lab (coming soon)
CELF WIKI • CELF maintains a wiki at: http://tree.celinuxforum.org/ CelfPubWiki/FrontPage • Want to keep information about technology areas there • Can hold original information, or just link to existing project or info • Trying to keep member project list there • Please put your project information there!
CELF Mailing List • celinux-dev@tree.celinuxforum.org • Go to web site for • archives • subscription information • Please announce projects and results there!
CELF Conferences • CELF Regional Jamborees - every 2 months in Japan • CELF Embedded Linux Conference • Ottawa Linux Symposium
CELF Embedded Linux Conference • Worldwide conference, in San Jose, April 11 and 12 • Lots of great topics • Bootup time • Instrumentation • Power management • Realtime • Lots, lots more… • Great speakers • Greg Kroah Hartman will be there • Greg is USB maintainer, developer of new Linux Driver Model
CELF Embedded Linux Conference • New web site coming very soon • Call for papers already issued • Proposals due by February 15 • Almost every presentation given today would make a great session at the conference • Also having demos and BOFs
What is a BOF?? • BOF =“ Birds Of a Feather” session • Group of people who are interested in the same topic • Informal meeting for free discussion • Some proposed BOFs for April conference: • Bootup Time • Kernel Tracing • Realtime performance measurement • Building a Linux Test Lab
Conference Details • Location: Network Meeting Center, Santa Clara • Right next to Santa Clara Convention Center • Web page - new page coming soon • Current wiki page: http://tree.celinuxforum.org/CelfPubWiki/ EmbeddedLinuxConference2006 • Cost: $200 professional, $40 hobbyist
Ottawa Linux Symposium • CELF is a sponsor every year • We hold an embedded Linux BOF • We submit proposals, and have presented in the past • Currently plan to submit at least 5 proposals for 2006 • Encourage others to participate, and to submit proposals • Deadline is February 1
Plea for Participation • Several presentations made today would be great candidates for: • CELF Embedded Linux Conference • Ottawa Linux Symposium • Please come to share and learn • Keep working on improvements to Linux • Let others know what you’re doing!!!
Language • We need volunteers to assist with translating Jamboree materials to English • Recommend working in pairs - one Japanese speaker and one native- English speaker • Maybe forum can provide translator “matching” service