June 12, 2005 CELF International Technical Conferece, Yokohama, Japan1 Ottawa Linux Symposium and CE Linux Forum Tim Bird Sony Electronics, Inc.

June 12, 2005 CELF International Technical Conferece, Yokohama, Japan2 Ottawa Linux Symposium ● What is it? ● Premiere technical conference for Linux kernel developers ● Held annually in Ottawa, Canada, in July ● This year it’s July ● Important gathering of many important Linux developers, maintainers and users ● Why does it matter? ● It is a place for people to meet face-to-face to discuss roadmap of Linux kernel

June 12, 2005 CELF International Technical Conferece, Yokohama, Japan3 Other similar conferences ● FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developers’ European Meeting) ● LinuxConf Australia ● CELF Technical Conferences?

June 12, 2005 CELF International Technical Conferece, Yokohama, Japan4 CELF involvement with OLS ● CELF is a sponsor of the event ● CELF donates prizes to be handed out at the final keynote ● In the past, CELF has given presentations, Bird’s of a Feather (BOF) sessions ● Currently planning to show demos of CE projects at the conference

June 12, 2005 CELF International Technical Conferece, Yokohama, Japan5 How does CELF benefit from OLS? ● CE Linux developers can attend the event ● Good for developers and their companies ● More importantly, is a place to influence other kernel developers ● CELF can also influence kernel developers during the run-up to the conference… ● So, even if you can’t attend, you can help!

June 12, 2005 CELF International Technical Conferece, Yokohama, Japan6 Attending OLS – tips ● OLS is about personal networking ● Many presentations are not focused on embedded ● A word of warning: expect flames, but BE NICE

June 12, 2005 CELF International Technical Conferece, Yokohama, Japan7 Networking ● Should try hard to meet people in your area ● Attend presentations, make note of who is presenting, and who is asking questions ● Ask questions yourself! ● Talk to people in the hallway ● Introduce yourself!! ● Attend BOFs (Birds of a Feather Session) ● Don’t just go back to the hotel room ● Find people for meals ● Tag along if you have to

June 12, 2005 CELF International Technical Conferece, Yokohama, Japan8 Networking (cont.) ● Seeing someone in person helps with your comfort level on mailing lists ● Very simple request: ● Just talk to people about CE issues

June 12, 2005 CELF International Technical Conferece, Yokohama, Japan9 Quick comment on Flames ● Most developers are nice and courteous ● Some developers have deep anti- commercial bias ● Best way to defuse a flame is say “I’m here to learn how to participate better.”

June 12, 2005 CELF International Technical Conferece, Yokohama, Japan10 If you are not attending… ● Papers are published after the conference ● See proceedings at: ● ● Don’t just read papers, but also note authors and their writings on web and on LKML ● Send comments!! ● Especially send patches, if you have them

June 12, 2005 CELF International Technical Conferece, Yokohama, Japan11 Preparing for OLS ● Tim’s evil plan… ● Extra hard push in next 4 weeks to: ● Discuss CE issues on relevant mailing lists ● Send patches ● Even if the patches are not ready, you can send a “Request for Comment” ● Prepare good demos for OLS ● Try to flood community with CE-related discussions and code

June 12, 2005 CELF International Technical Conferece, Yokohama, Japan12 What makes a “good” OLS demo? ● Must NOT be a sales pitch for a product ● But it’s good to show a product or board and describe how Linux was adapted for or it ● Code should be available ● Demonstrate something interesting or surprising from CE space ● Purpose is to raise awareness of CE issues, and help change perspective of non-CE developers

June 12, 2005 CELF International Technical Conferece, Yokohama, Japan13 Examples from this Conference ● Very good issues raised at conference: ● Special needs of embedded that influenced design decisions for Qt Embedded and DirectFB ● Big issues with cross-compilation of packages (which DeviceLinux and OpenEmbedded handle in different ways) ● Great list of specific issues adapting Linux to a cell phone

June 12, 2005 CELF International Technical Conferece, Yokohama, Japan14 Let’s have fun! I’ll see you out on the community lists!