The rush to MEDC 2007
As many of my team mates have been doing over the last few weeks I am working on my content for my MEDC 2007 presentations. I have dry run practices this week that I am scrambling to get ready for. This year has seen the greatest ever contribution from the whole XP Embedded team - almost everyone has written content and create Virtual PC images for the Hands-On Labs, or Instructor-led labs. Many of the PMs, Devs and Testers are giving presentations for the Breakout sessions.
My two presentations are "Componentizing Applications for Windows® XP Embedded Devices" - scheduled for Wednesday, May 2nd at 11.30am - and "Take a Deep Dive into Device Update Agent to Service Windows® XP Embedded Devices" - scheduled for Thursday, May 3rd at 2pm. I am also leading a lab session on Tues, May 1st at 4.45pm, also on end-to-end componentization. For a full list of sessions (and to register if you have not already done so) visit the MEDC 2007 site. I hope that you will introduce yourself to me sometime during the 4 days we are all down in Vegas.
If you were having doubts about whether the conference could be of use to you, here is a story that should persuade you to attend. In August last year a team of students from University of Florida successfully defended their national title for the AUVSI Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition. They did it with a vehicle running Windows Embedded, dominating the competition, being the only vehicle in the first round to complete the course and make it to the docking station.
One of the team members, Sean Cohen attended MEDC 2006 in May, and had never used XPE before. Within a few months, his team was able to put together the winning project on XPE.
This project is a great demonstration of how easy it was for this team to get up and running on XPE. As Brandon says below “ Sean got them up and running with an Embedded image a couple of days after starting up, and only had to do some performance tweaks to get them running optimally. Sean “called his shot” a couple of weeks ago and said that they were “going to put on a show”, because everything was working so smoothly with the OS so much earlier in the development cycle that they knew they had a big lead on their competition and that they could dominate the competition.”
See this link for more info on their current project.
So I hope you are inspired to come to MEDC 2007 and I hope that you will introduce yourself to me sometime during the conference.
- Lynda