[U-Boot] U-Boot mini-summit at ELCE 2013 in Edinburgh - call for participation!

[Wolfgang Denk]

Hello all,

I think we should bring the upcoming U-Boot mini-summit in Edinburgh
back to attention - it's still more than two months, so no reason to
panic yet, but as we all know, time flies like an arrow...

In message <m2ehf8ofw5.fsf at lamuella.denx.de> Detlev Zundel wrote:

> Hi fellow U-Boot developers,
>
> people meeting us at our booth at the Embedded World trade show in
> Nürnberg this year may already have heard rumours about it but now it is
> official - there will be an U-Boot mini-summit at the Emdedd Linux
> Conference Europe in Edinburgh, UK [1].
>
> Thanks to the wonderful people at the Linux Foundation, we will have
> some space in the afternoon of thursday 24th that we can use to present
> and discuss topics of interest for the immediate future of the project.
>
> Currently we believe that it makes sense to plan for 4-5 short talks in
> the range of 20-30 minutes with following Q&A.  The audience will very
> likely be "tech level" and the presentations are thus allowed to have
> "indecent technical content" :)
>
> Of course everybody is invited to suggest a presentation, but an
> informal poll turned up these topics of interest:
>
> - Driver model
> - Kconfig
> - Patman tutorial
> - U-Boot configuration through device tree
> - Falcon boot for everybody
> - DFU
> - Android fastboot
>
> The organization of the mini-summit is up to our discretion and thus
> somewhat less formal than the "regular" ELCE tracks, but we would like
> to encourage people to also submit U-Boot related talks through the
> regular CFP[2] if they are of wide interest.
>
> Having agreed on our schedule, we will be able to get it included in the
> official conference schedule and thus hopefully get a broader
> visibility.  To make this work we should finalize our schedule around
> the end of the official CFP which is July 21st, but of course the
> sooner, the better.
>
> Please inform us if you would like to attend in order to get an idea
> of the expected presence.  If neccessary we will have to look for a
> larger place early on.
>
> Next to the official program I'm sure that we will be able to find a
> place in the evening to taste local culinary specialities (in solid and
> liquid form), so be sure to book your return flight no sooner than
> friday evening ;)
>
> Thanks
>   Detlev
>
> [1] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference-europe
> [2] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference-europe/cfp

The deadline for the CFP has expired - did any of you actually submit
a presentation?

In any case, if you intend do give a presentation, could you please
ASAP send a short summary (title and abstract) to at least Tom,
Detlev and me, optionally also to the mailing list (recommended) ?


FYI: DENX will be present with the following engineers: Anatolij
Gustschin, Detlev Zundel, Gerhard Sittig, Heiko Schocher, Marek Vasut,
Pavel Machek, Stefan Roese, Stefano Babic, and myself.  We will arrive
on Wednesday afternoon.  Anatolij, Heiko, Stefan and me will depart on
Friday, the rest on Saturday.  We wil stay at the Hilton Edinburgh
Grosvenor hotel, Grosvenor Street.



Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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