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FreedomHEC 2007

 

 

Who: Hardware engineers, driver developers, you. Please add yourself to our Who's Who page

 

What: High-intensity learning, networking and taking-back-the-PC-industry unconference

 

Where: Holiday Inn LA City Center, Los Angeles, California, USA. (Hotel site)

 

When: May 18-19, 2007

 

Why: Take control of your own destiny and make your hardware valuable to the growing Linux market.

 

FreedomHEC is the hardware unconference where you'll learn how easy it is to make your hardware compatible with free, open source operating systems such as Linux, and available to new markets such as servers, next-generation entertainment devices, and more.

 

FreedomHEC is the conference where hardware vendors looking for a cost-effective Linux driver strategy can meet Linux driver experts.

 

FreedomHEC is held immediately before or after Microsoft's WinHEC, so that our attendees can schedule one trip.

 

Get answers on everything from kernel data structures to the fine points of licensing. Discover how participating in the Linux process is fast and simple, how the development process works, and where to get started.

 

2006 event home page

 

Questions and Topics

 

Proposed talks

 

Linux device driver tutorial: Bring a laptop running Linux and learn to write, build, and test a complete driver.

 

Power management: What infrastructure is available in the kernel for using devices' power saving modes? How should a device driver handle power-off requests via sysfs? Should a driver built as a module power down its hardware when removed from the kernel?

 

 

(To propose a topic for FreedomHEC, add it here. Talks from 2006 are on the 2006 page.)

 

 

 

Talks we could use but don't have a speaker for yet

 

Please add suggested topics here. 

 

 

 

Calendar

 

We'll plan to open up for coffee, Continental breakfast, and meet-and-greet at 9am, then do a conference introduction and put the schedule up on the whiteboard at 9:30, then get started with the first session at 10am. On the following day, we'll get started around the same time. Please plan to join us for a semi-organized group dinner after the unconference the first day.

 

Remember, it's an "unconference", so the final schedule is up to you and the other participants.

 

 

 

What you can expect to get out of FreedomHEC

 

  • Understand the Linux kernel development process and learn how it differs from the "traditional" operating system driver development process.

 

  • Learn how to become part of the Linux kernel development community.

 

  • Learn how to port any existing code to the Linux kernel

 

  • Learn various technical bits about different parts of the Linux kernel (SCSI layer? Driver core? sysfs? USB? PCI? Network driver layer? Anything else anyone wants to learn about?)

 

  • learn how to properly submit code and get it accepted into the main kernel tree.

 

  • learn how an individual company can directly influence the development of the areas surrounding their product. For example, they can add new features to the SCSI core if they need them, and they don't have to rely on any other company to do the work for them, as long as they work with the community.

 

  • Realize that Linux kernel developers are easy to approach, and work directly with, no management levels are present to slow things down.

 

And of course:

 

  • a fun time.

 

FreedomHEC 2007 Sponsors

 

Media sponsor LWN is offering a free trial subscription for attendees, to help you keep up to date on new kernel features, security alerts, and other Linux news.

 

 

FreedomHEC in the News

 

  • FreedomHEC participant Greg K-H has assembled the Linux Device Driver Kit based on the latest stable kernel. All FreedomHEC 2006 participants who requested them have received Linux DDK CDs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Administrivia

 

Media, potential sponsors, questions: please mail Don Marti at dmarti@zgp.org or call +1 510-332-1587.

 

To register for 2007, please add yourself to our Who's Who page.

 

To contribute to this wiki, you'll need the password, which is: freedom

 

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