[yocto-ab] AB proposal: sending Kevin Strasser to Barcelona

[Steve Sakoman]

Yes!

Steve

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Osier-mixon, Jeffrey
<jeffrey.osier-mixon at intel.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Kevin Strasser has been an Intel intern for several months, working on
> the Yocto Project. One of his duties has been to create a Yocto
> Project demo for the booth at ELCE/LinuxCon in Barcelona - the amazing
> blimp that we discussed in the last AB meeting. To that end, he
> refitted a 3-meter model blimp with an embedded board and a camera and
> rebuilt the base station, so now the Yocto Project has an incredible
> demo - a flying blimp, autonomous or controllable remotely, with an
> on-board streaming camera. The blimp's board is ARM-based (Gumstix)
> while the base station is based on an Intel Atom, showing the
> diversity of the project and its commitment to architecture
> agnosticism. The software is completely open source and available in a
> Yocto Project repository. I predict it will be a huge hit in
> Barcelona.
>
> Kevin, as the creator of both the blimp electronics and software,
> knows it intimately. Having him available in Barcelona allows the
> technical expert on the meta-meson project to be present to run the
> demo and discuss how it was pulled off, reflecting positively both on
> the Yocto Project and on Linux. In the booth he can certainly describe
> repeatedly his process to develop the blimp. Having him there will not
> only bring that layer's creator in contact with people who may want to
> create their own layers (and will be impressed that a college student
> could do this) but will also free up higher-profile Yocto Project
> engineers from having to explain it repeatedly, so they can explain
> higher-level things to other people. Not to mention, no one knows the
> project as well as Kevin.
>
> In short, I think we could gain quite a lot from having him there. He
> can also lend a hand at Dev Day.
>
> I propose dedicating some of the 2012 Community travel funds to bring
> Kevin to Barcelona to represent the Yocto Project's blimp demo. A Yes
> or No vote over the next two days would be very helpful.
>
> thanks
> --
> Jeff Osier-Mixon http://jefro.net/blog
> Yocto Project Community Manager @Intel http://yoctoproject.org
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