Bio

Joel Stanley is a part time Electrical Engineering student at the University of Adelaide, and part time Software Engineer, and full time embedded hardware geek. In recent years he has spent time interning at for One Laptop per Child in Boston, and more recently working on the Linux port of Chromium as part of his second stint as a Google Summer of Code student.

He has presented on OLPC - both the project and the XO-1 hardware - to audiences in California, Romania, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, and has been a attendee of OSDC and Linux.conf.au over the past 6 years. He as also given talks on embedded hardware interests at LinuxSA, the Adelaide Linux users group, and the Embedded Miniconf at linux.conf.au.

There's something on my ARM

How much power does it take to load your website? Come along and find the answer!

Chromium, an open source browser developed by Google, has brought a new level of speed and security to web browsers, but what is the cost of these new features? Today's netbooks are required to be low powered, and the new ARM-based netbooks will push power budgets even lower. Chromium uses WebKit, the same rendering engine used in low power devices such as the iPhone and Palm Pre. Does this low power herritage carry over to Chromium? How does Chromium compare to other desktop browsers?

In this talk I will cover my work porting Chromium to the Beagleboard, a ARM development board. It will cover the challenges faced, the work that has been done track memory and power usage, and the patches that have resulted from this work. Look forward to a demonstration of Chromium running on the Beagleboard, and a look at the impact on power usage that browsers and AJAX applications have.

This talk will be appropriate for people who use web browsers, those interested in embedded/mobile hardware, and those who are keen to begin contributing to an open source project.