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Outline for a proposed Debian Sprint for debian-embedded and debian-arm in 2010-2011

Organised by Hector Oron and Konstantinos Margaritis

Sponsors

If you want to become sponsor or join the session, please contact "Debian contacts" listed on this page

Genesi USA, Inc. would like to organize another Debian sprint happening at UIWICC in San Antonio, Texas, US.

Embedded Worksession

Proposed dates:

  • 25-29th January 2011
  • 15-19th February 2011
  • 22-26th February 2011

Past Extremadura meeting information at DebianEmbeddedWorkSessionExtremadura2006 and EmdebianWorkSessionExtremadura2008

This not yet include tickets, food, accommodation, etc which does not change between sessions.

Organizational Stuff

Where

Travelling details

  • Likely participants should buy their own tickets and then give to organizers a proof of payment so those can be refundable. If you have problems with it, please contact organizers.

Timetable

XX.Y.2011

Deadline for Attendee list with food preferences

XX.Y.2011

List of people needing travel sponsorship with full details needed for ticket ordering

XX.Y.2011

List Arrival/Departure times/flight numbers of those who get the flight tickets themself

XX.Y.2011

Travel to Venue - (times not yet known)

XX.Y.2011

First full day. People introduce what they personally want to do/decide here

...

Hacking + informal discussion

...

Hacking

XX.Y.2011 evening

workshop wrap-up and where to continue at home

XX.Y.2011

Event over, travel back

Debian contacts

  • HectorOron, <zumbi at debian dot org>, ES

  • Konstantinos Margaritis, <markos at debian dot org>, GR

Accommodation

  • TBC

Local Transport

  • TBC

Food

  • The sponsor is also taking care of food for the attendees. If somebody have any particular preference/need (like vegans or allergies) please contact the Local Contacts.

Agenda

Some issues that would be helpful to tackle, please feel free to edit (or append to) this information:

  • TODO: armhf status and Debian integration into dpkg and lintian

  • TODO: multiarch support into dpkg

  • Discussion: Handling 'flavours' (ISA and optimisation options) (e.g. ARM v5/v6/v7/VFP/Neon, x86 i586/i686/MMX) within Debian (dpkg support, package metadata, partial archives, multilib gcc/install paths, multilib- or flavoured- cross-tools)
  • Discussion: Cross compilation environment (cross toolchains and target packages) - bare metal support
  • Discussion: Prepare partial architectures within debian-ports.org for later multiarch and/or embedded use
  • Discussion: Do we want/need Emdebian/Crush? Do we need uClibc port or optimized EGLIBC port?
  • Discussion/TODO: Improve Debian Installer for handling custom kernel + userland on devices
  • Discussion: Resources and infrastructure
  • Discussion: Software integration: looking at MeeGo, Linaro, Yocto,.. and Debian packaging efforts.

Announcements

Attendees

Please add you own name, e-mail address, country (2-letter code) and airport of origin (3 letter code)

The number of attending people is strictly limited to XY. In case the final count exceeds that number, choices will have to be made, sorry for this.

Flight tickets status

Ie, try survive with just hand luggage!

Probably

Name

e-mail

Town

Country

From Airport

Back To Airport

Arrival

Departure

Mr

Raphaël Hertzog

hertzog@debian.org

Saint-Etienne

FR

LYS

Mr

Marcin Juszkiewicz

marcin.juszkiewicz@linaro.org

Szczecin

PL

SSZ|TXL|SXF

SSZ|TXL|SXF

Sure

Name

e-mail

Town

Country

From Airport

Back To Airport

Arrival

Departure

Mr

Hector Oron

zumbi@debian.org

Cambridge

UK

STN|LHR|LGW

Mr

Neil Williams

codehelp@debian.org

Cambridge

UK

STN|LHR|LGW

Mr

Nick Bane

nick@cecomputing.org

Cambridge

UK

STN|LHR|LGW

Mr

Ms

Mrs

Sure (overseas)

These attendees are located outside Europe and additional funding might be required. So, being listed here is not a promise that you'll be able to come...but accepting to be listed here means to you're OK to come if we can fund you..:-)

Name

e-mail

Town

Country

Airport

Arrival

Departure

Family Members and invited people

As long as the *total* amount of people is under XY, family members can too be also accomondated.

List of invited people (waiting confirmation)

Name

e-mail

Status

List of family members

Name

e-mail

Status

Mr

Mrs

Hardware and interests

Since we are embedded, instead of say, s390, getting target hardware transported is easy. One of the advantages of meeting physically we exploit is meeting with systems you don't deal with usually. putting them in handluggage is good idea :)

  • Hector Oron
    • ARM Hardware
      • Balloon board, EfikaMX, EfikaSB