Dear coreboot folks,
the Desktop Summit 2011 [1] will take place in Berlin from August 6th– 12th. The first three days will consist of keynotes and talks [2].
There seem to be some open slots on Monday and maybe on the weekend evening too. I am CCing Lennart Poettering as one of the organizers(?).
Knowing that some coreboot or flashrom developers live in Berlin it would be awesome if one of them could present coreboot or flashrom. For coreboot a short introduction and demonstration of for example the ThinkPad X60/T60 and ASRock E350M1 would be a good idea.
I know this is on short notice and the Desktop Summit is normally associated with GNOME and KDE and therefore coreboot seems out of place. But in my opinion – if accepted – coreboot could reach *developers* who might be interested in the possibilities of coreboot and do not know about this.
flashrom could be interesting for the desktop developers to know that there are tools to upgrade the BIOS from the desktop and maybe someone is motivated to code up a GUI (graphical user interface) for flashrom. That is just a thought and I do not know how easy that would be and if flashrom provides these kinds of means to be hooked up to a GUI.
I would do it, but I am only able to be there on Saturday and not being that knowledgeable with the internals I would rather not do it.
Thanks,
Paul
[1] https://desktopsummit.org/ [2] https://desktopsummit.org/program