Dear colleagues,

Kindly see below information regarding a Real-time Linux conference in October. Sorry for cross posting.

 

Regards,

 

John Matogo.

 

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Twelfth Real-Time Linux Workshop

 

                            October 25-27, 2010

                           Strathmore University

                                  Nairobi

                                   Kenya

 

 

Following the meetings of academics, developers and users of real-time

and embedded Linux at the previous eleven real-time Linux workshops held

world-wide (Vienna, Orlando, Milano, Boston, Valencia, Singapore, Lille,

Lanzhou, Linz, Guadalajara and Dresden) - the Real-Time Linux Workshop

for 2010 will come to Africa for the first time. It will be held at the

Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya, from October 25 through 27,

preceded by one week public seminars.

 

 

Rationale

 

Embedded and real-time Linux have been rapidly gaining traction in

consumer electronics and made significant advance into industrial

computing. Today, Linux runs a wide range of industrial applications

including real-time and safety-related systems. This vast pool of

technology not only has the potential to improve the capabilities of

computer systems in general but also has the ability to include new

regions of this world into this creative process. These regions have

been excluded so far due to the economic constraints involved with

proprietary development models. Opening the door for the creative

potential of engineers in Africa, exchanging ideas between diverse

technical cultures is an essential contribution to advancing the

capabilities of Open Source.

 

 

Call for papers

 

Authors from academics, industry as well as the user community are

invited to submit papers on original work related to Open Source

real-time systems. Such work may deal with general topics related to

Open Source and free-software based real-time systems but also with

research, experiments and case studies, as well as with issues of

integration of Open Source real-time and embedded systems. A special

focus will be on industrial case studies and safety-related systems.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

 

 * Modifications and variants of the GNU/Linux operating systems

   extending its real-time capabilities

 * Contributions to real-time Linux variants, drivers and extensions

 * User-mode real-time concepts, implementation and experience

 * Real-time Linux applications, in academia, research and industry

 * Safety-related FLOSS systems

 * Work in progress reports, covering recent developments

 * Educational material on real-time Linux

 * Tools for embedding Linux or real-time Linux and embedded real-time

   Linux applications

 * RTOS core concepts, RT-safe synchronization mechanisms

 * RT-safe interaction of RT and non RT components

 * IPC mechanisms in RTOS

 * Analysis and benchmarking methods and results of real-time GNU/Linux

   variants

 * Real-time networking with COTS

 * Medical applications using COTS and FLOSS

 * Debugging techniques and tools, both for code and temporal debugging

   of core RTOS components, drivers and real-time applications

 * Real-time related extensions to development environments

 

 

Abstract submission

 

If you wish to present a paper at the workshop, please submit an

abstract using the submission page at

http://www.osadl.org/RTLWS12-Abstract.submission-form.0.html.

 

 

Final paper to be included into the RTLWS12 Proceedings

 

Upon acceptance of an abstract by the RTLWS12 Program Committee, the

author will be invited to submit a full paper in a form defined by

http://www.osadl.org/paper.tgz. A detailed description of the editing

and formatting process will be provided along with the notification

email.

 

 

Web pages

 

http://www.realtimelinuxfoundation.org/

http://www.osadl.org/


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