The Libre Software Meeting (LSM) is an annual event on free software taking place in july in France since 2000. The LSM meeting is organized this year in Nantes, France from 7th to 11th July. Amongst several tracks, the Libre Software Meeting will feature an « Embedded Systems and Open Hardware » track, for which the call for presentations has been released recently.
The purpose of the “Embedded Systems and Open Hardware” session is to give the state of the art of free software for embedded systems and Open Hardware. Technical topics of this session include but are not limited to:
- Embedded OS Development kernel architecture, implementation and port for embedded systems
- Embedded Development Tools: tool chains and project cases (tool chain projects, packaging for cross compilation, portability …)
- Embedded Linux: µClinux…
- Real-time extensions for Linux: RTLinux, RTAI…
- Hard real-time kernels: eCos, RTEMS, ADEOS, Xenomai…
- Soft Real-time kernels
- Embedded Java
- GUI for embedded systems: Gtk, Qt, Nano/X…
- Linux and System on Chip (SoC)
- Open Hardware, Open design, free IP modules (Intellectual Property) and softcores: opencores, OpenRISC, NIOS, Microblaze, LEONSparc, FPGA…
The conference will last 30 minutes, questions included. Round tables will be organized. Synthetic presentations are scheduled to last 20 minutes. PDF versions of the presentation are not mandatory but they will be greatly appreciated (with an online web access just after the LSM event, they are a very useful documentation source for the entire community).
If you plan to participate and to propose a presentation, please send a message as soon as possible to the following address: embarque@rmll.info with a summary of your presentation (and if you can, a summary in English too) no later than 15th march 2009. Feel free to forward this Call For Presentation to other places or to everyone you think could be interested.
