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

[Scott Wood]

On Thu, 2013-08-08 at 11:24 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> 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.

I'll be there.

-Scott