[ANNOUNCE] Embedded Linux Conference Europe Program Announced

[Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>]

Sorry in advance for this non-technical post, but I figured
some embedded kernel developers (especially in Europe) might
be interested in this.

== SUMMARY

The CE Linux Forum is happy to announce the program for
Embedded Linux Conference Europe, 2009.  This event, located
this year in Grenoble, France, brings together embedded Linux
experts from Europe and around the world.

A full list of sessions is available at:
http://www.embeddedlinuxconference.com/elc_europe09/sessions.html
and for program details, see:
http://www.embeddedlinuxconference.com/elc_europe09/program.html

Registration is now open at the above web site.

== PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

Authors of some of the most useful and important resource books
in the Linux industry will be there, as well as developers and
experts from companies like: Philips, Sony, ST Microelectronics,
Free Electrons, Mentor Graphics MontaVista, Pengutronix, and Wind River.

The conference will host over 40 sessions, including presentations,
Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, keynotes and tutorials.  The sessions
will cover such wide-ranging topics as:
 * Board bring-up and porting
 * Realtime performance
 * Core kernel features
 * Graphics and video
 * Fast booting
 * Tracing
 * Embedded distributions and build systems
 * Bootloaders and bootloader interfaces (device tree)
 * Security
 * Android !!
     and much more.

Here are some of the embedded Linux experts presenting at
this event:
 * Jon Masters - Kernel hacker and co-author of "Building Embedded
Linux Systems"
 * Phillipe Gerum - Founder and lead maintainer of the Adeos and
Xenomai projects. Also a co-author of "Building Embedded Linux Systems"
 * Allessandro Rubini - Author of 1st edition of "Linux Device Drivers"
 * Gilad Ben-Yossef - Co-founder of Codefidence LTD, and co-author of
"Building Embedded Linux Systems"
 * Matt Porter - Long-term kernel contributor, now at Mentor Graphics
and previously at MontaVista Software and Motorola Computer Group.
 * Alex de Vries - Chief Technologist for Wind River Systems
 * Frank Rowand - Realtime Linux practitioner at Sony Corporation

Registration includes access to all sessions, demos, BOF meetings,
lunch and snacks each day, and a fun social event Thursday night.

To register, please follow the link at:
http://www.embeddedlinuxconference.com/elc_europe09/registration1.html

If you have any questions, send e-mail to elce-09@tree.celinuxforum.org.

I hope you can make it!
 -- Tim

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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America
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