CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Libre Software Meeting 2006 --------------------------------------- Operating system design and implementation The Libre Software Meeting (LSM) has been one of the most important Free Software events in France since the year 2000 [0]. This year, the meeting will take place from July 4th to July 9th in Nancy, to the East of France [1]. The Libre Software Meeting aims at allowing designers and developers of free software projects [2] from different places to meed and and share their ideas and experiences. LSM is also an opportunity to discuss societal issues. Technical conferences cover a wide range of topics, from high-level programming languages to databases, through security concerns. The "operating system design and development" topic is looking for speakers to present free software projects. Technical topics include (but are not limited to): * design and implementation of operating systems: architecture, services, libraries, use of high-level languages and advanced programming techniques such as AOP, dynamic reconfiguration, etc.; * kernel subsystems: schedulers, I/O schedulers, virtual memory management, etc.; * filesystem implementation: journalized, distributed filesystems, etc.; * realtime extensions to free operating systems; * virtualization tools (i.e. Xen, User-Mode-Linux, etc.); * kernel development tools : debuggers, performance evaluation, etc.; * distributed operating systems; * embedded systems development. Programs of previous years are available online [3]. The program for 2005 is currently being defined and a tentative program will be available online [4]. There is no programme committee (it is not a scientific conference) and selection process is expected to remain as lightweight as possible. Volunteers should contact Renaud Lottiaux and Thomas Petazzoni by June 2006. Speakers are encouraged to write a small paper (6 to 12 A4 sheets) summarizing their presentation (in an open format such as PostScript or PDF). Renaud Lottiaux and Thomas Petazzoni. [0] http://2005.rencontresmondiales.org http://lsm2004.abul.org http://lsm2003.abul.org http://lsm2002.abul.org http://lsm2001.abul.org http://lsm2000.abul.org [1] http://www.rmll.info [2] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html [3] http://medias.2005.rencontresmondiales.org/topics/os/ http://wiki.ael.be/rmll2003/index.php/ThemeOperatingSystem , http://lsm2002.abul.org/program/topic06/topic06.php3 , http://lsm2000.abul.org/program/topic06_en.html . [4] http://prog.rmll.info/wakka.php?wiki=ThemeKernel