[yocto-ab] Form submission from: Yocto Project Participant Registration

[Yocto Project]

Submitted on Friday, November 29, 2013 - 03:36
Submitted by anonymous user: [193.34.101.17]
Submitted values are:

    --Contact information--
      Organization / project name: Silica
      Contact name: Alessandro Viganò
      Contact email address: alessandro.vigano at silica.com
      URL to organization or product link: www.silica.com
      Registration date: 2013-11-29
      Compliance Agreement revision: 1.0


Criteria:
   - Working towards and supporting the aims and objectives of the Yocto
Project. These include decreasing the fragmentation of embedded ecosystem and
focusing around a common shared set of tools, formats and best practices. We
want to avoid multiple groups of people repeating the same work and have one
set of great tools rather than multiple tools with drawbacks.: Yes
   - Committed to promoting the OpenEmbedded architecture, layer model, and  
BSP
format.: Yes
   - Committed to sending to the open source community any patches to
OpenEmbedded-Core, BitBake and other Yocto Project layers.: Yes
   - Aiming for compatibility and interoperability among different metadata
layers.: Yes
   - Are a non-profit, small business (up to 80 employees), or existing Yocto
Project member organization, or if the project's parent organization is an
open-source project.: Yes
Explanation:
Hello,
in Silica we are running the ArchiTech program. In this program we are
building development boards and we
are providing Yocto support.

We are currently working with Texas, Freescale and Renesas and we want
provide a common SDK based on Yocto.

You can check the TI existing board on
http://www.silica.com/product/silica-pengwyn-board.html
This one is already supporting Yocto.

Silica is part of Avnet, the leader company in distributing electronic
components. We are interested in actively collaborating with Yocto project
and we would like to know what forms of participation we can have.

Thanks,
Alessandro Viganò



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