CE Linux Forum Established as a California Non-Profit Corporation
CE Linux Forum Established as a California Non-Profit Corporation SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The CE Linux Forum (CELF) announces that it was officially established as a California non-profit corporation on January 1 of this year. CELF's headquarters will be located in San Jose, Calif., and Scott Smyers, who had been the chair of the organization's steering committee, will serve as the chair of the CELF Board of Directors. By incorporating as a not-for-profit organization, the CELF will be able to develop its activities in new ways. This will give the organization greater flexibility to fund development work in the open source community, and to create relationships with other organizations to further the group's goals. The Forum was established in June 2003 by eight companies (Hitachi, Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., NEC Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation, and Toshiba Corporation), to further enhance and promote the use of Linux in digital consumer electronics products. CELF membership now totals more than fifty companies. The CELF maintains a collection of source code modifications for Linux ("patches") that tailor Linux for use in building consumer electronics devices, such as mobile phones, set-top boxes, and personal media managers. The first version of the patches was made available for download and review by the public in November 2003. In June 2004 the organization released Version 1.0 of the CELF specification and a reference implementation. During 2004 the CELF also hosted a "Techno-Jamboree," an open engineering meeting for CE Linux development engineers, and was a sponsor of the Ottawa Linux Symposium. The second CELF Plenary Meeting and its first US Technical Conference will be held in San Jose Jan. 25-26. Information about the CE Linux Forum and a detailed member list are available at: http://www.celinuxforum.org/ . NOTE: Linux is a registered trademark owned by Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other areas. CELF World Headquarters CE Linux Forum 50 Airport Parkway San Jose, CA 95110-1011 USA TEL: 408-955-4941 E-mail: office@celinuxforum.org Board Members and Officers: Chair: Scott Smyers / Sony Corporation Co-Chair: Ikuo Minakata / Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic) Director: Nobuhiro Asai / IBM Director: Dr. Evan Smouse / Hewlett-Packard Director: Dr. Isao Nakagawa / Hitachi Ltd. Director: Dr. Hee-Youn Lee / LG Electronics Inc. Director: Steve Bunch / Motorola Director: Kimio Jono / NEC Corporation Director: Jari Juopperi / Nokia Corporation Director: Yukio Yagi / Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic) Director: Gerrit Hendrik Kaashoek / Royal Philips Electronics Director: Young Kyu Choe / Samsung Electronics Co. Director: Tamotsu Furuya / Sharp Corporation Director: Masao Hori / Sony Corporation Director: Mitsunobu Aoyama / Toshiba Corporation Secretary and Treasurer: Thomas Swidler / Sony Corporation Contact: Elizabeth Boukis, +1-408-955-5616, for CELF; or Asian region: pr-asia@celinuxforum.org; or European region: pr-europe@celinuxforum.org; or U.S. and all other regions: pr-other@celinuxforum.org (Reference). Source: CE Linux Forum CONTACT: Elizabeth Boukis, +1-408-955-5616, for CELF; or Asian region, pr-asia@celinuxforum.org; or European region: pr-europe@celinuxforum.org; or U.S. and all other regions: pr-other@celinuxforum.org, (Reference) Web site: http://www.celinuxforum.org/ ------- Profile: International Entertainment
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