cdl – Bootlin

Bootlin at Capitole du Libre, November 16/17 in Toulouse, France

Capitole du Libre is one of the major open-source conferences in France, possibly the most important community-driven open-source conference in France. Coincidentally, it was co-founded over 10 years ago by Bootlin CEO Thomas Petazzoni, but it’s now run by a large group of enthusiast volunteers.

As one of the Bootlin offices is precisely based in Toulouse, and Bootlin is strongly connected to open-source projects and communities, it is natural that Bootlin engineers have been attending Capitole du Libre for pretty much as long as it has existed, and the 2024 edition will be no exception to this rule:

Bootlin is a Platine sponsor of the event
Most of our team in Toulouse will be attending the event
Our engineers will be giving 3 talks:
Bootlin will have a booth in the main entrance hall, thanks to which you will be able to meet us and our team

Bootlin is hiring, for both full-time embedded Linux engineer positions, and for embedded Linux engineering internships, so do not hesitate to get in touch during the event to discuss career opportunities at Bootlin!

Additionally, our hardware and electronic design partner and friend Ratiotech will be present, and they are hiring electronic design engineers, get in touch as well!

We’re looking forward to meeting the open-source community at Capitole du Libre, discovering new projects, and learning new things. Join us and attend the event!

Bootlin at Capitole du Libre, November 18-19, Toulouse, France

Capitole du Libre is THE open-source/free-software event that takes place each year in Toulouse, France. Turns out that half of Bootlin’s team is precisely based in Toulouse, and obviously we are big fan of open-source/free-software, and therefore we have always supported, contributed and participated to Capitole du Libre in one way or another. Bootlin’s CEO Thomas Petazzoni is actually one of the founders of the Capitole du Libre event, back in 2007-2008.

This year, Capitole du Libre will take place on November 18-19, as usual at ENSEEIHT, an engineer school located in the heart of Toulouse.

Bootlin is first financially supporting the event by being one of the Platine sponsors. Thanks to this, we will have a booth at the event, so if you want to meet us, coming to Capitole du Libre is a good idea.

Secondly, Bootlin is also contributed to the event by having 4 of its engineers give talks:

Louis Chauvet will give a talk titled Rust in Linux, where are we?
Romain Gantois will give a talk titled Bootup and recovery of ARM platforms, of course focused on the Snagboot project
Michael Opdenacker will give a talk titled How to reduce its electric energy consumption with GNU/Linux?
Thomas Petazzoni will give a talk titled Discover and understand Linux in embedded systems

Attending Capitole du Libre is free, so we definitely recommend all free-software/open-source users, developers, contributors to join this great event, and we look forward to meeting the local open-source community at Capitole du Libre!

Bootlin at Capitole du Libre 2022: sponsor, booth and talks

Capitole du Libre is a free-software/open-source conference with a local/regional scope organized in Toulouse, France, since ~2012. As one of the Bootlin offices is also located in Toulouse, Bootlin has often participated to this event by giving talks or simply by attending.

The 2022 edition, the first after 2 years of interruption due to the COVID19 crisis, will take place on November 19 and November 20. Bootlin will participate by:

being one of the gold sponsors of the event
having a booth, through which attendees will be able to meet Bootlin engineers, discuss embedded Linux, projects, career and internship opportunities at Bootlin. Most of the Bootlin embedded Linux engineers based in Toulouse will be present at the event and the booth.
giving 4 different talks (titles are in French, as talks are given in French):
- Business model open-source: l’exemple de Bootlin dans le monde de l’embarqué by Thomas Petazzoni
- Introduction à Yocto by Thomas Perrot
- Plongée au coeur d’Ethernet, et son support dans Linux by Maxime Chevallier
- Vue d’ensemble de la pile graphique utilisée avec Linux by Paul Kocialkowski

If you’re in the Toulouse area and a free-software/open-source enthusiast, we strongly recommend you to attend Capitole du Libre. The event is free, no registration is required, and there’s a very nice line-up of talks and workshops!

Bootlin at Capitole du Libre in Toulouse, France

Next week-end, a local free and open-source software conference called Capitole du Libre will take place in Toulouse, France, where Bootlin has one of its offices. Bootlin will participate to this event in several ways:

Bootlin is among the Bronze partners, supporting financially the event
Bootlin engineer Paul Kocialkowski will give a talk titled Origami-EC: towards a free software firmware for the Embedded Controller, in which he will present one of his personal projects.
Bootlin engineer Maxime Chevallier will give a talk about Networking under Linux, in which he will give an introduction to the Linux kernel networking stack.

We encourage free software developers and users from the south west of France to join this event, which has been organized for several years, and provides a very nice selection of talks and tutorials. And of course, this conference is entirely free, and no registration is required.