In response to a number of requests from leading companies in the embedded Linux market, Rick Lehrbaum, founder of LinuxDevices.com has put together a proposal for an Embedded Linux Consortium. The goal of the nonprofit multi-vendor organization, would be to proliferate the use of Linux in embedded applications as rapidly as possible. The proposal is posted at the Embedded Linux Forum hosted by LinuxDevices.com, at www.linuxdevices.com/forum.

In the proposal, Lehrbaum says ''The proposed goal of the Embedded Linux Consortium is to immediately create the perception (and soon the reality) that — instead of there being two main options for embedded OSes, Microsoft and non-Microsoft — there are now three: Microsoft, Linux, and 'other'.'' ''By having an Embedded Linux Consortium,'' continues Lehrbaum, ''we will create a greater sense of unity relative to 'an Embedded Linux'. Our group will have a name, a logo, and an organization; it'll have an identity.''

The proposal discusses possible organizational structure, dues, membership levels, launch plans, and administrative methods. Lehrbaum, who was the founder of the 150-member PC/104 Consortium, suggests modeling the Embedded Linux Consortium roughly along the lines of the highly successful PC/104 group.

 
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