The Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF) has attracted a veritable who's who of embedded Linux speakers for its annual open-to-the-public conference, set for Apr. 17-19 in Santa Clara, Calif. Speakers include Thomas Gleixner, Greg Ungerer, Koen Kooi, and Nicholas McGuire, to name just a few.

(Click for larger view of “King Tux,” the ice sculpture featured at last year's CELF-con)

Over the last several years, CELF's annual Embedded Linux Conference has shaped up into a top technical conference, albeit a small one. Last year's event drew 40 speakers, 104 pre-registered attendees, and 14 on-site registrations, for a total of 158 attendees from the US, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Australia, Germany, Austria, and England.

This year's program includes some 57 keynotes, presentations, tutorials, and “birds-of-a-feather” (BOF) sessions, mostly led by well-known embedded Linux developers. For example:

• Thomas Gleixner, a major contributor to the Linux kernel's real-time support, will deliver a keynote on embedded Linux growing pains, and a presentation on the status of timers and real-time support in the kernel
• Matt Mackall, CELF's principal developer, will present on system-wide memory profiling
• Koen Kooi, of the OpenEmbedded Project, will discuss “Easy QA, repeatability, and retargeting”
• Nicholas McGuire (“Der Herr Hofrat”), of Lanzhou University, will offer three tutorials on kernel debugging
• Greg Ungerer of SnapGear will present the state of the uClinux nation
• Philippe Robin will present an experiment with Linux on ARM's Thumb-2 ISA (instruction set architecture)
• Jonathan Corbet, founder of LinuxWeeklyNews, will keynote the state of the Linux kernel, and present about joining the kernel development process
• Robi Karp, of Fluffy Spider, will present the Fancy Pants graphics framework for phones, set-top boxes, and other devices

The conference will also feature representatives of Motorola, NXP Semiconductors, Philips, Intel, NTT DoCoMo, Igel, Renesas, BlueZ, ETRI, Phoenix, MIPS, CodeSourcery, Mitsubishi, Samsung, LG Electronics, Nomad Global Consulting, Sony, AIST, Selenic Consulting, Hitachi, Toshiba, TimeSys, Fluendo, ST, the Gnome Foudnation, and Netspectrum.

The CELF conference is open to the general public, and not just for CELF members. It costs $300 for professional and $40 for hobbyist attendees. More details, including a complete sessions listing, can be found on CELF's website, here.

LinuxDevices.com's coverage of last year's CELF conference is available here:

 
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