[yocto-ab] MINUTES: Yocto Advisory Board meeting, 08-Jun-2011

[Osier-mixon, Jeffrey]

MINUTES: Yocto Advisory Board meeting, 08-Jun-2011

Minutes:
11:00: Introductions

11:10: Upcoming Events: OSCON, LinuxCon, Virtual Embedded Linux Conf.
  LinuxCon, phil may not be there, WR yes, Intel yes, others considering
  OSCON: Mentor yes, Intel yes

11:20: Yocto 1.0.1 release, 1.1 planning (Dave Stewart)
  recap of 1.0.1 release and 1.1 planning with milestones
  arm vs gcc 4.6.0 not entirely stable
  phil: how to increase membership on phone call? denys goes
  Sean requests meeting info
Minutes, Yocto Advisory Board, Weds 8-Jun-2011

Attendees:

MontaVista: Mark Orvek, Jim Ready, Joe Green
Linux Foundation: Richard Purdie
Wind River: Lieu Ta, Paul Anderson, Nithya Ruff
Intel: Tracey Erway, Dirk Hohndel, Dave Stewart
Mentor Graphics: John Cherry
Dell: Sean Hudson
OpenEmbedded eV: Phil Balister

11:00: Introductions

11:10: Upcoming Events: OSCON, LinuxCon, Virtual Embedded Linux Conf.
  LinuxCon, phil may not be there, WR yes, Intel yes, others considering
  OSCON: Mentor yes, Intel yes

11:20: Yocto 1.0.1 release, 1.1 planning (Dave Stewart)
  recap of 1.0.1 release and 1.1 planning with milestones
  arm vs gcc 4.6.0 not entirely stable
  phil: how to increase membership on phone call? denys goes
  Sean requests meeting info
--> Jefro to send out meeting invites
  john would like to go
  mark discussing whom to send to meeting
  Julie moving on, Song taking program management

11:30: Yocto Advocacy and Outreach group readout
  [[following slides sent out by Tracey on 8-Jun-2011]]
  want to build bridges between advocacy & eng groups
  sean: inward facing training material
  phil: provide free-electrons guys with updated training for openembedded
  folks porting to oe-core by october (phil:arm, rp:other projets touch
other archs)
-->Dirk giving yocto keynote at LinuxCon Brazil
  training critical, demos critical over next 6 mo
  paul: need higher focus on non-IA, build list, WR willing to collaborate
  richard: demonstrating technical improvements, community, should have
other archs
  tracey: what would be really great to have?
  paul: working bsps on reference platforms things people will use, as many
as possible
  sean: demos, useful to take diff archs and inject same codebase
    new package and inject into rootfs, show starting point same into
gumstix and ppc targets
-->AB determine what bsps to make available to advocacy team?
  intel planning a giveaway
  messaging for yocto/oe solid by linuxcon vancouver
  sean & tracey discussed creating a picture of oe vs yocto
-->paul suggests continuing discussion on mailing list
  budget issues - what people want to bring to meeting
    need to discuss
  Dave wants to ask LF about money & process for advocacy plans
  Tracey - suggests to put some amount of money on people's radar
-->start finance subgroup?

Notes from others (thanks Nithya!):

-          Dirk speaking as a keynote at Linuxcon Brazil
-          OE Training Material – talk to Richard
-          OE Core projects – demos for October
-          AR for AB: Board schedule
-          OE Messaging by end of July for next board meeting
-          Budget – how is the Advocacy team funded? AB AR?
. generic version of internal training foils to sean (tracey)
. ab flesh out prioritized list of bsps within 2 weeks, discuss resourcing
at next meeting
  wr willing to partner with hardware folks
. sean send diagram of oe-yocto relationship
. ab to put together messages, need to finalize by mid july

final thoughts:
sean: training materials very important
  training on wiki
-->training subteam?
demos & sponsors are top priority

Action Items:

--> Jefro to send out invitations to engineering meetings
--> AB determine list of BSPs to make available to advocacy team within 2
weeks
      NOTE: resources for BSP production to be discussed at next A
--> AB to continue messaging discussion on mailing list
--> AB to determine budget & funding issues, discuss with LF
--> OE Messaging by end of July for next board meeting
--> OE training material needs help, talk to Richard
--> Tracey to provide generic version of training foils to Sean
--> Sean to provide diagram of OE/Yocto relationship to Tracey
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