1. January 20, 2006 CELF stuff Tim Bird Sony Electronics CE Linux Forum Architecture Group Chair

2. January 20, 2006 Outline CELF Super-quick Overview Community Effect CELF Resources CELF Conferences Ottawa Linux Symposium

3. January 20, 2006 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

4. January 20, 2006 CELF Super-quick Overview We find areas where Linux can be improved for CE products Then we fix them By “we”, I mean YOU

5. January 20, 2006 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?

6. January 20, 2006 CELF’s Main Strategy CELF tries to help build community effect for embedded linux developers.

7. January 20, 2006 Community Effect Open Source is built on communication and “community effect” Open Source system multiplies your efforts

8. January 20, 2006 CELF Public Resources WIKI Mailing list Conferences Test Lab (coming soon)

9. January 20, 2006 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!

10. January 20, 2006 CELF Mailing List celinux-dev@tree.celinuxforum.org Go to web site for –archives –subscription information Please announce projects and results there!

11. January 20, 2006 CELF Conferences CELF Regional Jamborees - every 2 months in Japan CELF Embedded Linux Conference Ottawa Linux Symposium

12. January 20, 2006 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

13. January 20, 2006 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

14. January 20, 2006 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

15. January 20, 2006 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

16. January 20, 2006 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

17. January 20, 2006 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!!!

18. January 20, 2006 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

19. January 20, 2006 Thanks!