Dear seL4 community,
A couple months ago we had a successful 3rd seL4 Summit. Despite having to revert to virtual format, it was a very good event, and I’m sure I’m not the only one who enjoyed it. Thanks for the great work to our friends at IAI, Siege Technologies and the Griffiss Institute for the organisation, and DARPA and AFRL for funding the Summit in particular, and seL4 in general for many years.
DARPA funding for the seL4 Summits is coming to an end, and, as you know, the seL4 Foundation has been created as the community-driven guardians of seL4. Among others, this means it is time to think about how future summits will look like. For example, much of the funding for seL4 has come from defence budgets, but the technology is equally important for critical civilian systems, and the Summit should reflect this. We would also like to see broadened community participation, maybe a flavour of FODSEM or LCA, while continuing to involve our corporate partners, who are key to financial support and widespread deployment.
So we are asking you, the seL4 developer community, what you would like to see at the next summit, in content and format. After this informal community consultation we expect to issue an EOI for organising the next Summit, anticipated timeframe is similar as in the past, Sep–Nov.
Please make/discuss suggestions via reply email within a month (and note that I’ll be off-lline for a fair chunk of this).
Gernot
PS: For those who have missed it, the Summit presentations are still available for about another month to those registered, see https://www.sel4-us.org/summit2020/