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

[Ta, Lieu]

Yes, from Wind River.

Lieu

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> From: yocto-ab-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-ab-
> bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Osier-mixon, Jeffrey
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 6:10 PM
> To: yocto-ab at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: [yocto-ab] AB proposal: sending Kevin Strasser to Barcelona
> 
> 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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