[yocto-ab] Yocto Project Advisory Board, minutes 20 Feb 2013

[Osier-mixon, Jeffrey]

Yocto Project Advisory Board
Quarterly Face to Face: Embedded Linux Conf, San Francisco
20 Feb 2013

Attending:

Sanil Kumar, Huawei
Daniel Stenberg, ENEA
Lieu Ta, Wind River Systems
Davide Ricci, Wind River Systems
David Stewart, Intel
Tracey Erway, Intel
Steve Sakoman, Sakoman Inc
Khem Raj, Juniper Networks
Hisao Munakata, LTSI
Simon Horman, LTSI
Sean Hudson, Mentor Graphics
Nobuhiro Iwanmatsu, LTSI
Dirk Hohndel, Intel
Philip Balister, OpenEmbedded
Bill Mills, TI
Jason Kridner, TI
Noriaki Fukuyasu, Linux Foundation
Richard Purdie, Linux Foundation
Jeff Osier-Mixon, community (Intel)

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Agenda

- Poky as YP Compatible
- technical update
  - NTP, use LICENSE_FLAGS = noncommercial
- upcoming votes
- finance update
- advocacy update
  - 2013 marketing plan
- community update: events
  - FOSDEM trip (Philip)
  - Yocto Project Dev Day
  - plans for Collaboration Summit

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Notes

- voting Poky as YP Compatible
rp:
confusion from community
not listed on official list, no reason it shouldn't be
reference implementation
to alleviate confusion
there are some layers that are not yet ypc
ds:
meta-yocto yp compatible?
rp:
made changes for 1.3 to make it compatible, but no official step
technical issues resolved

question - which other components are/aren't YP compatible?
=> J to figure out, call for votes & document
  link on git.yoctoproject.org
  note there that listing on that server is not guarantee of yp compat

=> J to fix official listing on website

autobuilder not necessary - meta-yocto and meta-yocto-bsp?

sk: global usage - derivative projects
what is the value of the brand
davide:
registration process brief
creating dynamic in the market
everything has to be registered

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Technical Update

- NTP
concern over the default server
YP users provide a lot of traffic
arrange donation?
set LIC flag = noncommercial
bm: perhaps hit dhcp server first and only use as fallback
compliance issue & practical issue
ds: look for alternatives
we shouldn't make it easy to accidentally enable many hits
eg 500/yr donation is drop in bucket if millions of implementations

=> RP to take it to (yocto) mailing list, report back to AB
each commercial player decides what to do
update documentation

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- upcoming votes

i-Get - from fujitec
unknown project, need more information - J has asked

RP:
=> change form to radio boxes, select a/b/c
=> provide more justification, info about company & product, clear link
sh:
=> clean up form output

[discussion about trademarks]
=> all trademark removed

Move Innov
vote for YP Participant
YES
=> J notify of approval

=> J make participant & compatible easier to find
=> J announce new participants

Poky
vote for YP Compatible
YES

x> 24hr grace period to use branding as long as they submit
.> contact jefro/richard as early as possible
.> submit on day of announcement
.> grace period 2 weeks, if no vote they have to stop using materials

=> include info in vote request, jefro/richard ok

nod from architect should make it ok
make a donation to the project?

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Advocacy update

- 2013 marketing plan

awesome new booth, shippable, TV, floor covering
blimp
compliance program - notify of changes, promotion
plan for a year-end review
some people not using it yet
don't want to make it easier to qualify
punt discussion for advocacy team
articles on website
events
  considering where to put the booth
lcna (good, co-loc with plumbers)
lcj
collab?
auto summits
elce
devday at elce?

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Community update
  - FOSDEM trip (Philip)
oe has a stand at fosdem by community
resurgence in build system talks - zeitgeist?
very large open source conference in europe, possible future target


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Jeff Osier-Mixon http://jefro.net/blog
Yocto Project Community Manager @Intel http://yoctoproject.org