Vision Embedded Linux Developers Conference

Attend the world's largest conference for embedded Linux developers, where embedded Linux gets real: Real devices, real developers, real-time.

Location: San Francisco, CA
Date: 10/2/2008 - 10/3/2008
Organizer: MontaVista Software

Vision 2008 Embedded Linux Developers Conference
October 1-3, San Francisco, California
Attend the world's largest conference for embedded Linux developers, where embedded Linux gets real: Real devices, real developers, real-time. Hosted by MontaVista Software and sponsored by Freescale Semiconductor, Intel, and Texas Instruments.
Birds-of-a-feather sessions will allow you to discuss key issues with top developers. The exhibit hall will feature the latest development tools from innovative companies. Choose from more than 35 keynotes, technical sessions, and hands-on labs, with tracks focused on technical subjects and specific hardware platforms:
• A special keynote by Lisa T. Su, Senior Vice President and CTO of Freescale.
• Hands-on multicore Linux lab conducted by Mike Anderson, PTR Group Chief Scientist.
• Create a custom SoC on an FPGA board and bring up Linux - in under 90 mins!, a hands-on lab conducted by Navaneethan Sundaramoorthy, Embedded Solutions Manager of Xilinx.
• Full-day hands-on embedded drivers bootcamp conducted by Mike Anderson, PTR Group Chief Scientist. (Separate fee.)
• Real-time vs. real fast: How to choose? by Paul McKenney, IBM Distinguished Engineer, Open Systems Development (and one of the highest-rated speakers at last year's Vision conference).
• The kernel report by LWN.net editor Jonathan Corbet.
• Fast boot: Tips and techniques for improving Linux startup time by Christopher Hallinan, author of the number-one selling embedded Linux book, Embedded Linux Primer.
• Flattened device tree and embedded Linux, with code examples from PowerPC by Vitaly Bordug, the maintainer of the PowerQUICC processor family.
• Linux challenges on the XO laptop and beyond by Deepak Saxena, Linux Kernel Software Engineer of One Laptop Per Child.
The business of GPL: Open source legal 101 by Jason Wacha, Director and Founder of Open Bar, and Vice President of Corporate Affairs and General Counsel of MontaVista Software.
• Dozens more sessions with top developers and industry experts, including MontaVista CTO and Founder Jim Ready, Jason Kridner of Texas Instruments and Beagle Board fame, Corey Minyard, maintainer of the Linux IPMI driver and ser2net, former embedded PowerPC mainline kernel maintainer Matthew Porter, and many more presenters.
And you can sample the wares of our Streets of San Francisco dinner, and compete in our games night.
Vision will be this year's largest embedded Linux event, where you can learn and network with people who all focus on embedded Linux. Whether you work engineering mobile devices, telecom carrier grade equipment, or other electronic devices, join us and discover how embedded Linux and open source development tools can get your products to market faster.

Get your hands dirty in hands-on lab sessions. Meet key players. Meet potential associates. See cool demos of hot new products. Learn from the technical strategies of leading companies. Learn why and how thousands of engineers are using embedded Linux.
Join your fellow developers at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco in 4 weeks!

Event Link:http://www.mvista.com/vision/