CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Libre Software Meeting 2005
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Operating system design and development

The Libre Software Meeting (LSM) is organised every year since 2000 by
the Free Software community in France [0]. This year, the meeting will
take place from July 5th to July 9th in Dijon, to the East of France.
The Libre Software Meeting aims at allowing designers/developers of
free softwares [1] from the whole world to come present their works
and share their ideas, but is also the occasion  to discuss societal
issues. Technical conferences cover a wide range of topics, ranging
from high-level programming languages to databases, through security
concerns.

The "operating system design and development" topic is looking
for speakers who'd like to come and present their free software
projects. More specifically, projects concerning the following
domains:

 * design and development of operating systems : architecture,
   services, libraries, high-level languages in operating system,
   dynamic configuration, etc. ;

 * subsystems implementation : schedulers, I/O schedulers, virtual
   memory management, etc. ;

 * filesystem implementation : journalized, distributed filesystems,
   etc. ;

 * realtime extensions for free operating systems ;

 * virtualization tools (i.e Xen, User-Mode-Linux, etc.) ;

 * kernel development tools : debuggers, performance evaluation,
   etc. ;

 * embedded systems development.

Programs of previous years are available on-line [2].

The volunteers to contact are Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni@enix.org> and Ludovic Courtès
<ludovic.courtes@laas.fr> before June 2005. The speakers are
encouraged to provide a small paper (6 to 12 A4 sheets) summing up
their presentation (in an open format such as PostScript or PDF).

Ludovic Courtès and Thomas Petazzoni.

[0] http://lsm2000.abul.org , http://lsm2001.abul.org ,
    http://lsm2002.abul.org , http://lsm2003.abul.org ,
    http://lsm2004.abul.org .

[1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

[2] http://wiki.ael.be/rmll2003/index.php/ThemeOperatingSystem ,
    http://lsm2002.abul.org/program/topic06/topic06.php3 ,
    http://lsm2000.abul.org/program/topic06_en.html .