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

[Jagan Teki]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
> 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.

Is there any link for about discussed topics with covered speakers, if
yes please pass.

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Thanks,
Jagan.