The Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM) has issued a call for papers for its track on Embedded Operating Systems. FOSDEM will be held in Brussels, Belgium, Feb. 20-21, 2004.

An embedded OS track was also held last year. The first edition was quite succesful and attracted up to 100 attendants for certain topics, according to Practical Organizer Peter Vandenabeele. Last year's program and papers are available here.

This year's technical topics will include, but are not limited to:

• OS Development : kernel architecture and implementation (e.g. Linux, BSD, the Hurd, etc.)
• Embedded Development : tool chains and project cases (e.g. tool chain projects, packaging for cross compilation, portability, etc.)
• Real-time extensions, nanokernels and hardware virtualization software (e.g. RTAI, Adeos, KURT, L4, etc.)
• Hard real-time OS's (eCos, RTEMS, etc.)
• Embedded Java: open source implementations and the compatibility question (Classpath, Kaffe, Wonka, Mauve, JCK, JCP, etc.)
• Open hardware and softcores (e.g opencores.org, OpenRISC, leonSparc, FPGA's, etc.)
• GUI's for embedded systems (Gtk, Qt, MicroWindows, etc.)

Authors are requested to submit their abstracts to Vandenabeele before Dec. 18, 2003. Notification of receipt will be sent within 48 hours. Authors wishing to submit a full paper (between six and 12 A4 pages) can do so in postscript or PDF format.

Abstracts will be evaluated by a Program Committee that includes:

• Herman Bruyninckx, Professor at K.U.Leuven, Belgium
• Geert Uytterhoeven, Sony NSCE, Belgium
• Karim Yaghmour, Opersys, Canada
• Marcus Brinkman, University Bochum, Germany
• Peter 'p2' De Schrijver, Mind, Belgium

“The use of Free Software in the infrastructure of Embedded Systems is booming,” notes Vandenabeele. “As embedded and real-time systems typically have special OS requirements, we organise this Free Embedded and OS development track at FOSDEM.”

 
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