Hot on the heals of LPC is another event I am helping to organize.

If you are involved in Linux driver development please consider giving a talk at FreedomHEC Taipei.

FreedomHEC Taipei

FreedomHEC Taipei brings together experts in the Linux community with developers wanting to write Linux drivers for their hardware products. Taiwan is a leader in hardware component development and teams based in the country are building headlining devices such as the EeePC. Helping Taiwan developers learn the Linux development process will improve future hardware support in Linux.

Linux Plumbers Conf was a huge success due to the huge amount of effort put forth by the organizers and the great turnout of attendees. Thanks to everyone!

A highlight of the conference, for me, was meeting some of the folks in the DVB/V4L community. This was the first time that this many core video developers were together in the same place and a lot was accomplished. There was discussion about the new DVB API for supporting new protocols, libv4l’s progress, routing APIs for future devices, and my discussion about a V4L server. Also, I found out that Mauro now works for Red Hat- which is great news for the subsystem.

I spent the last hour re-familiarizing myself with Unix sockets via man-pages and HOWTOs. I have written client/server socket apps a dozen times before but because of iterative development I no longer had a simple example lying around.

To save myself this trouble in the future I created a little socket client and server for future reference. This app allows you to have a Twitter style conversation (140 char limit) with everyone on your system who has permissions to the Unix socket! Perhaps the Unix shell is the next micro-blogging platform.