<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Hi,</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">This is a Call for Presentations for the Tracing Summit 2018 which will be held</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">in Edinburgh, UK on October 25th, 2018, at the Edinburgh International</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Conference Centre, co-located with the Open Source Summit Europe & Embedded</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Linux Conference Europe.</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">The Tracing Summit is single-day, single-track conference on the topic of</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">tracing. The event focuses on the field of software and hardware tracing,</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">gathering developers and end-users of tracing and trace analysis</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">tools. The main goal of the Tracing Summit is to provide space for discussion</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">between people of the various areas that benefit from tracing, namely parallel,</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">distributed and/or real-time systems, as well as kernel development.</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">We are welcoming 30 minutes presentations from both users and developers,</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">on topics covering, but not limited to:</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> * Investigation workflow of Real-Time, latency, and throughput issues,</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> * Trace collection and extraction,</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> * Trace filtering,</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> * Trace aggregation,</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> * Trace formats,</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> * Tracing multi-core systems,</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> * Trace abstraction,</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> * Trace modeling,</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> * Automated trace analysis (e.g. dependency analysis),</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> * Tracing large clusters and distributed systems,</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> * Hardware-level tracing (e.g. DSP, GPU, bare-metal),</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> * Trace visualisation,</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> * Interaction between debugging and tracing,</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> * Tracing remote control,</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> * Analysis of large trace datasets,</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> * Cloud trace collection and analysis,</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> * Integration between trace tools,</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> * Live tracing & monitoring.</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Those can cover recently available technologies, ongoing work, and yet</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">non-existing technologies (which are compellingly interesting to</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">end-users). Please understand that this open forum is not the proper</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">place to present sales or marketing pitches, nor technologies which are</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">prevented from being freely used in open source.</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">If you are interested in presenting, please submit a proposal to</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><a href="mailto:submission@tracingsummit.org" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">submission@tracingsummit.org</a><span> </span>before<span> </span><b>September 1st, 2018, at 23:59 EST</b>.</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Please provide the following information:</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> * Talk title,</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> * Talk abstract, (900 characters maximum)</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> * Description of the targeted audience (900 characters maximum),</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"> * Short biography (900 characters maximum).</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div>Attending the Tracing Summit is free of charge. More details on registration</div><div>will be available shortly, be sure to checkout the Tracing Summit 2018 website</div><div>for all the latest information on this topic:</div><div><a href="https://www.tracingsummit.org/wiki/TracingSummit2018" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://www.tracingsummit.org/wiki/TracingSummit2018</a></div></div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">The Tracing Summit is organized by the Linux Foundation Diagnostic and</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Monitoring Workgroup (<a href="https://diamon.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://diamon.org</a>).</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">The Tracing Summit is sponsored by<span> </span><a href="https://www.efficios.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">EfficiOS</a>. Please let us know if your company</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">is interested in sponsoring this event.</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Thank you,</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">On behalf of the Diagnostic and Monitoring Workgroup,</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Francis Deslauriers & Mathieu Desnoyers</div></div>