Desktop Summit 2011 in Berlin

[Paul Menzel]

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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 13.07.11 11:44, Paul Menzel ([e-mail]) wrote:
> 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(?).

Yes, I running the paper committee of the summit.

At this time the talks schedule (sat-mon) is finalized and all slots
filled. So we cannot add anything to that part of the schedule anymore.

For the BoF/workshop part of the conference (i.e. tue-fri) the
deadline for having a bof in the printed schedule is already passed,
too. However, we kept a big chunk of the rooms for ad-hoc bofs, which
will be handed out first come first serve, and registering a slot will
be done via a wiki. You are welcome register a room from these at the
conference.
> 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.

If we have a BoF room available (and I think we do) then I see no reason
why coreboot should not be able to get one.

I am only running the paper committe, not the bof commitee. If you have
any questions regarding bofs, consider pinging Jon Nordby
([e-mail]) directly who's looking after the bofs.

Hope this is helpful,

Lennart