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

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:39:50AM +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >> Hi fellow U-Boot developers,
> >>
> >> people meeting us at our booth at the Embedded World trade show in
> >> N??rnberg 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.
> 
> I should be there too. Will be there any specific room available for
> u-boot mini summit?

Yes, I do believe so.

> I don't have any specific presentation but I am interested in
> SPL for Microblaze and ARM Zynq platforms, device-tree U-Boot initialisation
> and maybe others.

Sounds good.  I'm not sure how the organization side of the summit is
being setup, but I imagine we'll be able to talk about those things.

-- 
Tom
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