Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2012 | Co-Located Events

We are pleased to offer the following co-located events in conjunction with LinuxCon Europe 2012. All events will take place at the Hotel Fira Palace in Barcelona, Spain. Please check back for additions to this page.

LinuxCon Europe
Monday, November 5 - Wednesday, November 7
The premiere Linux conference in Europe that promises to bring together a unique blend of core developers, administrators, users, community managers and industry experts.

KVM Forum
KVM is an industry leading open source hypervisor that provides an ideal platform for datacenter virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure, and cloud computing. Once again, it's time to bring together the community of developers and users that define the KVM ecosystem for our annual technical conference, KVM Forum. We will discuss the current state of affairs and plan for the future of KVM, its surrounding infrastructure, and management tools. So mark your calendar and join us in advancing KVM.

oVirt Workshop
Wednesday, November 7 - Friday, November 9
We are excited to announce that the oVirt Workshop will be held in conjunction with KVM Forum this year. The oVirt Project is an open virtualization project for anyone who cares about Linux-based KVM virtualization. Providing a feature-rich server virtualization management system with advanced capabilities for hosts and guests, including high availability, live migration, storage management, system scheduler, and more. By open we mean open source & open governance, done right.

EFL Developer Day
Monday, November 5
Enlightenment is a window manager, compositor and graphics toolkit for Linux desktop, embedded and mobile. It is efficient, fast and easy to use, with customization at its core. Join EFL Developer Day to find out more about Enlightenment, where it is heading, and how it can help you. To request an invitation to attend EFL Developer Day, please click here.

Gluster Workshop
Thursday, November 8
GlusterFS is an open source, distributed file system capable of scaling to several petabytes (actually, 72 brontobytes!) and handling thousands of clients. In this workshop, attendees will learn about the Gluster project's history, roadmap and architecture. Presentations will include a deep dive into the latest release of GlusterFS, GlusterFS from the Systems Administrator's perspective, Gluster FS as a development platform and managing your Gluster instances.

Presented by Red Hat, this workshop will take place from 9:00am - 5:00pm on Friday, November 8th and is complimentary to attend. Register now - this workshop is limited to 50 people.

Yocto Project Developer Day
Thursday, November 8
The Yocto Project is an open source collaboration project which provides templates, tools, and methods to streamline custom embedded Linux development across any hardware architecture, including ARM, x86 (32-bit and 64-bit), PPC, and MIPS. The Yocto Project gives developers a head start by providing hardware BSPs and a standardized BSP format across architectures, extensively tested and up-to-date metadata for the kernel, an automatically-created Application Developer Kit (ADK), and great flexibility for embedded device requirements. Learn about the Project's new Hob user interface which provides easier management of the build software. Meet the Project's supporting organizations which include a variety of silicon vendors, large OS vendors, and independent consultants, who will present sessions and labs and will also be available to answer questions about your projects and environment. Hear about different cost- and time-saving strategies for embedded development, and the difference between using the Yocto Project versus starting from scratch with existing, non-embedded distributions. New users will be presented with an in depth overview of what is provided in the Yocto Project, the pieces and processes used in cross-tool development, how to work with recipes, how to use existing images or build new ones, and much more. Existing users will gain more depth with regard to customization opportunities and processes, new tools and their capabilities, build error resolution, migration to commercial Linux, and other advanced topics. There will also be dedicated Q&A; sessions devoted entirely to issues of interest to attendees, and an opportunity for new users to skip hands-on labs and swap tracks to learn about more advanced topics.

OpenSAF European Symposium
Thursday, November 8
This event will feature a variety of sessions led by well-known technologists, architects and academics in the high availability ecosystem. Topics will range from the benefits of open source, high availability middleware to best practices for implementing OpenSAF. This symposium is intended for users, developers, engineering managers and academics from various industries including Telecom and Aerospace and Defense.

Buildroot Developers Days
Saturday, November 3 - Sunday, November 4
Buildroot is a simple and efficient embedded Linux build sytem. Buildroot can generate any or all of a cross-compilation toolchain, a root filesystem, a kernel image and a bootloader image. Buildroot is useful mainly for people working with small or embedded systems, using various CPU architectures (x86, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, etc.).

Join the Buildroot Developers Days to develop and contribute to the progress of Buildroot.

Wireless Mini-Summit
Thursday, November 8 - Friday, November 9
This event is intended to include developers from the Linux Bluetooth, NFC, and wireless LAN (802.11) communities.

Embedded Android Workshop
Thursday, November 8
While Android has been created for mobile devices -- phones first and now tablets -- it can, nonetheless, be used as the basis of any touch-screen system, whether it be mobile or not. Essentially, Android is a custom-built embedded Linux distribution with a very elaborate and rich set of user-space abstractions, APIs, services and virtual machine. This workshop is aimed at embedded developers wanting to build touch-based embedded systems using Android. It will cover Android from the ground up, enabling developers to get a firm hold on the components that make up Android and how they need to be adapted to an embedded system.

Specifically, we will start by introducing Android's overall architecture and then proceed to peel Android's layer one-by-one. First, we will cover the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), the open source project under which Android's source code is released. We will then dig into the native Android user-space, Android's power tools, and cover how hardware support is implemented in Android. Given that Android is built on top of Linux, we will also go over some embedded Linux tricks and see how the kernel is modified to support the Android user-space. In addition, we will look at the System Server, the Android Framework and core Android applications, and how to customize them. The workshop will take place from 8:30am-12:30pm and is free to attend. To register, please click here.