The third-annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) is set for February 12-13 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, and the event will feature a number of speakers of interest to embedded Linux developers. The event solicited papers about embedded Linux in November of last year.

Speakers at the 2005 SCALE event include:

• Glenn Flinchbaugh, Director of Wind River's Linux program — The advantages of a Linux COTS (commercial, off-the-shelf) strategy in the telecommunications market
• Gideon Romm, head of R&D at Symbio Technologies — Diskless thin client networks based on embedded Linux
• Randy Dunlap, OSDL software engineer involved in USB subsystem and Carrier Grade Linux — Kernel Janitors project, and how to become involved in Linux kernel development
• Larry McVoy, founder of BitMover — Delta Development model
• Kevin Bedell, director of consulting and training at Black Duck Software — The case for open source and closed standards, or how companies can safely accelerate open source adoption
• Marc Hamilton, director of technology for education at Sun — Open source Solaris
• Norman McEntire, adjunct engineering professor at USC — Using kdb (kernel debugger) and demonstrations of Linux kernel functionality.
• Darryl Strauss, president of Digital Ordinance (HDTV hw/sw) — Open source telephony using Asterisk and VoIP
• Dennis Rex, business development manager of “large software company” — Wireless Linux for beginners
• John Ousterhout, Tcl creator and founder of Electric Cloud — Overview of Electric Cloud, a GNU Make-compatible build system that uses clusters of inexpensive servers to run massively-parallel builds
• Alexander Perry, principal engineer for GE Infrastructure, Security — Linux in embedded systems for engineers
• Ted Gould, founding developer at Inkscape — The SVG vector graphics Web standard

Additionally, the 2005 SCALE event will feature a panel discussion on the future of VoIP. More details, including a complete speaker list, are available at the SCALE website.

 
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