This week, I am traveling to Oregon to attend the Community Leadership Summit Sat-Sun and O’Reilly’s OSCON Mon-Fri. That’s a full week of high community involvement, and I am looking forward to every minute of it.
As regular readers know, I’ll be speaking at OSCON on the subject of the BeagleBoard, my favorite inexpensive single-board computer based on the ARM Cortex-A8. I’ll present detailed instructions on how to boot several flavors of Linux (with demos!) and I’ll have a prototype of the new BeagleBoard xM that is set to debut at the end of July. My talk is Wednesday at 2:30 just after Bryan Smith’s presentation on the SheevaPlug, which I am very much looking forward to hearing.
I’m also looking forward to the Embedded Linux Community BoF, which I’ll be running on Wednesday evening at 7pm. This BoF is opposite the recently-announced Android Hands-On, but I am hoping to stimulate a conversation more about the embedded community in general than about specific distributions. The roundtable discussion will likely focus on non-mobile embedded computing, particularly build systems like OpenEmbedded and the new crop of inexpensive reference platforms, and how communities can accelerate development, even among corporations (witness GENIVI, open-source success in the automotive industry).
I will also be joining the Teaching Open Source crowd at the Education BoF on Monday evening, where we hope to discuss many issues surrounding the Open Source Way and its impact on open-source concepts in education. A splinter group (ha!) will very likely stay late to discuss the schedule for the upcoming Education Mini-Summit at LinuxCon, which I have the honor to help organize. I’m also speaking at LinuxCon about desktop Linux and holding another Embedded BoF.
Yes, I love participating! Life is a contact sport, if you do it right.
Feel free to comment if you plan on attending any of these events, and you will win one (1) Jefro.net business card and a hearty handshake at the event in question. See you at the show!
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July 26, 2010 at 5:52 pm
James Perkins
The Embedded Linux BOF was fun. Really enjoyed meeting you, Victoria, and son.
Cheers,
James
August 3, 2010 at 11:39 am
Victoria Mixon
We enjoyed meeting you, too, James.
I love taking our son to Jeff’s conferences–open-source geeks are really the most accepting professional people in the world, all those ex-high school misfits wandering around appreciating and being appreciated for their great brains and creativity rather than conformance to some status quo.
I love the variety of looks, the acceptance of wild differences in persona, the high-calibre intellectual talk, and at the same time the sincere interest in a kid’s contribution to geek conversation. (We had sushi one night w/three folks who spent the whole time giving our son ideas about how to animate toy dinosaurs with a battery and a little copper gardening tape.) The lack of snobbery is really amazing and wonderful, especially in a setting with that much combined intellectual power.
Also, everyone’s packing various incarnations of expensive high-tech, so the conferences are chock full of security. It’s the safest place in a city to let our son go wandering around, taking everything in, all on his own.
We’re going back next year!