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CELF's mission is to improve Linux for use in consumer electronics products. We identify areas for improvement and work together to fix them. Join us in building the community effect for embedded Linux developers.
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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