[Tinyos-devel] Call for Participation: TinyOS Technology Exchange

[Philip Levis]

The Fourth International TinyOS Technology Exchange (TTX4) will be  
held at MIT on Saturday, April 28th.

http://tinyos.stanford.edu/ttx/2007/

The TTX is a yearly venue where developers, users, and companies  
involved in low-power wireless sensing get together to talk about  
recent developments and future directions. The focus of this year's  
meeting is the formation of the TinyOS Alliance, a non-profit  
organization designed to provide a structure to better support  
collaboration in achieving technical excellence.

The TinyOS Alliance Steering Committee encourages anyone who is  
interested in, using, exploring or advancing TinyOS-based  
technologies to attend. There will be reports from the six existing  
TinyOS working groups, a session on new working group formation, and  
a series of interesting panels that bring industry and
academia together to discuss the important challenges ahead. The  
focus of the event is ultimately on the community, its innovations,  
and its work, and so there are three ways to participate and share  
your accomplishments:

1) The contributions session. The session will begin with the  
contribution czars, Kevin Klues and Martin Leopold, talk about how  
you can bring your code into TinyOS for others to easily download,  
use, and extend. The majority of the session will be two-slide,  
three- minute presentations from members of the community describing  
work they've done and which others can use. All you need to do is  
bring your slides and get up to the microphone. Contributions to any  
version of TinyOS (pre-1.0, 1.0, 1.1, 2.0) are welcome.

2) The demo session. If you've built a new application, a new  
platform, have new technology or new research ideas that you want to  
demonstrate to the TinyOS community, this is a great forum for doing  
so. To register a demo, please email the demo chair, Lewis Girod  
(girod at nms.csail.mit.edu).

3) The working group formation session. Is there an area that you  
think bringing interested parties together to collaborate would help  
advance research and technology? This session provides an opportunity  
to present
proposals for new working groups to the community, in order to gather  
support, interest, and momentum. The Steering Committee has  
recognized two working groups it thinks would be beneficial to form;  
if you have an idea, just have a few slides to let people know.[1]

In addition to all of these sessions, the TTX4 will have the next  
release of TinyOS 2.0 (2.0.1), which will include a large number of  
advancements, including robust low-power operation for micaz and  
telos-family nodes, improved sensor board support, a beta version of  
network reprogramming, and a new way to very easily install TinyOS.

The event is free for students, and has a $50 registration fee for  
non-students; this fee is to cover costs for the coffee breaks and  
lunch which will be served.

On behalf of the TinyOS Steering Committee, the local organizer Matt  
Welsh, and the demo chair Lewis Girod, we all look forward to seeing  
you there.

Phil

[1] http://www.tinyos.net/scoop/special/working_groups