CELF stuff

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CELF stuff

• Tim Bird
• Sony Electronics
• CE Linux Forum Architecture Group Chair

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Outline

• CELF Super-quick Overview
• Community Effect
• CELF Resources
• CELF Conferences
• Ottawa Linux Symposium

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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

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CELF Super-quick Overview

• We find areas where Linux can be improved for CE
  products
• Then we fix them
• By we, I mean YOU

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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?

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CELFs Main Strategy
CELF tries to help build community effect for
embedded linux developers.
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Community Effect

• Open Source is built on communication and
  community effect
• Open Source system multiplies your efforts

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CELF Public Resources

• WIKI
• Mailing list
• Conferences
• Test Lab (coming soon)

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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!

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CELF Mailing List

• celinux-dev_at_tree.celinuxforum.org
• Go to web site for
• archives
• subscription information
• Please announce projects and results there!

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CELF Conferences

• CELF Regional Jamborees - every 2 months in Japan
• CELF Embedded Linux Conference
• Ottawa Linux Symposium

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 youre doing!!!

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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

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Thanks!