Hi all,
I have written following to the devroom request.
Thanks. Rudolf
Hello,
We would like to ask for common devroom for both collaborating projects - Coreboot and Flashrom.
Coreboot is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) you can find in most of today's computers.
Flashrom is a utility for identifying, reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash chips. It is designed to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware/optionROM images on mainboards, network/graphics/storage controller cards, and various programmer devices.
Both projects are closely related, for example, the Coreboot uses Flashrom to write the images. Both attract people which like the hardware and close to the hardware system programming.
On the last FOSDEM there was a Coreboot devroom. Flashrom presented itself only during Carl Daniel's lightning talk. This year is a great opportunity for both projects to share a common devroom to attract hardware oriented people together. As for the devroom topic, we would like to offer more hands-on sessions and kind of mini lectures explaining various parts of non-trivial problematics which both project face. If one judges the last year Coreboot devroom attendance, we had all the time full room, which was nice although we prepared "just" lectures about the project (with demo) and "how stuff works" oriented lectures. Our aim for this year is to bring both projects even closer to potential users or developers using above mentioned more individual approach.
We would also like to apply for the main talk track to catch an attention of completely new users or developers which never heard of our projects. The intended topic of the talk would be more general and serve as the introduction to this interesting part of computer hardware & software.