May 28, 2013
ConferenceCenter, Technologiepark Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 582
69120 Heidelberg, Germany
10:00 - 22:00
Rooms "Europa", "Amerika", "Asien"

The two main topics of this year's OSADL Networking Day are

How to select an appropriate Linux distribution for embedded systems, if any?

and

Linux certification: OSADL SIL2LinuxMP project and research status

10:00 - 10:30 Get together

10:30 - 11:40 Rationale of discussing distribution strategies

10:30 - 11:00 Why is it desirable for a manufacturer of a Linux-based industrial device to use a standard distribution? Markus Mader, Bizerba GmbH & Co. KG

11:00 - 11:30 Do-it-yourself, commercial or mainstream distribution for embedded Linux? Matthias Lüscher, Roche Diagnostics International AG

11:30 - 11:40 Result of the OSADL survey on distributions for embedded Linux. Tino Hutschenreuther, IMMS gGmbH

11:40 - 12:00 Short communications

11:40 - 11:50 Heterogeneous System Architecture. Mazda Sabony, AMD

11:50 - 12:00 Strategies to raise national and international funds, Tino Hutschenreuther, IMMS

12:00 - 12:30 Product presentations

12:00 - 12:10 Wind River Linux. Houssem Ben Abderrahman, Wind River

12:10 - 12:20 Phytec Product Presentation. Phytec

12:20 - 12:30 BASe-Box. Tino Hutschenreuther, IMMS

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 - 14:00 Unsupported do-it-yourself embedded Linux

13:30 - 13:40 No distribution. Andreas Klinger/Carsten Emde

13:40 - 13:50 Buildroot. Carsten Emde

13:50 - 14:00 Discussion

14:00 - 15:00 Supported embedded Linux distributions

14:00 - 14:10 PTXdist, Robert Schwebel, Pengutronix

14:10 - 14:20 Maintained vendor kernel, Axel Berghoff, Phytec

14:20 - 14:30 elbe. Manuel Traut, Linutronix

14:30 - 14:40 ELinOS. Matthias Lötzke, SYSGO

14:40 - 14:50 Yocto. Houssem Ben Abderrahman, Wind River

14:50 - 15:00 Discussion

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break I

15:30 - 16:00 Mainstream distributions

15:30 - 15:40 Debian/Ubuntu. Manuel Traut, Linutronix

15:40 - 15:50 RHEL/CentOS/Fedora. Carsten Emde

15:50 - 16:00 Gentoo. Thomas Elste, IMMS

16:00 - 16:45 Legal aspects

16:00 - 16:45 What are the legal implications when using or re-distributing a Linux distribution in an embedded system? Dr. Till Jaeger, jbb Rechtsanwälte

16:45 - 17:00 Discussion

17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break II

 Topic 2: Linux certification: OSADL project SIL2LinuxMP and research status

17:30 - 19:00 SIL2LinuxMP

17:30 - 18:00 The Experience of Increasing Linux File System Test Coverage. Alexei Khoroshilov, Institute for System Programming, Moscow, USSR

18:00 - 18:30 Current status of SIL2LinuxMP. Nicholas Mc Guire, OSADL Safety Coordinator

18:30 - 19:00 Discussion

19:00 - 20:00 Dinner break

20:00 - 22:00 Table-top presentations, networking

Please note that the OSADL Networking Day 2013 is an internal OSADL event; thus, unrestricted participation is only available for OSADL members. However, a limited number of seats have been reserved for non-members who are interested in OSADL's work and would like to learn more about OSADL. Please let us know, if your company is not yet OSADL member and you would like to be invited. These seats for non-members will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. In addition, OSADL members may propose guest companies to be invited.

All presentation material will be in English, the conference language is German or English. Simultaneous interpretation to either language will be provided.

A certain number of rooms have been reserved at the Heidelberg Marriott Hotel:

Heidelberg Marriott Hotel
Vangerowstrasse 16
69115 Heidelberg, Germany

Please contact OSADL to request the booking code of the room block.

A map to calculate directions to the ConferenceCenter of the Heidelberg Technologie Park is available here.