[yocto-ab] YP Advisory Board: VOTE ExpEmb for YP Participant

[Maupin, Chase]

Yes from TI

Sincerely,
Chase Maupin

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> On Aug 11, 2014, at 12:15 PM, "Jeff Osier-Mixon" <jefro at jefro.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks - this vote is for ExpEmb, a group of three French embedded
> companies comprising Tokhatec (hardware), Sysmic (software), and
> Axupteam (prof svcs). One of their employees, Gilles Blanc, will be
> speaking at YP Developer Day in October.
> 
> Please vote yes/no for YP Participant for ExpEmb.
> 
> Their website is minimal, but here is the explanation from Gilles:
> 
> our website is still a mess...  :)
> (This is how you recognize real embedded guys in France: the more
> awful their website, the better they are... Actually, we never really
> talk of our activities: secrecy is a kind of religion in industry.)
> 
> ExpEmb is a group of three companies:
> 
> _ Tokhatec (with a new website: http://www.tokhatec.com/): reseller of
> Computer on Modules (COM), mainly Congatec (x86 and ARM) and Engicam
> (ARM Freescale), and designer of base boards (for instance for
> avionics calculator). As we only design base boards for the COM we
> sell with very strong partnership, our hardware market is France (BTW,
> a former 15-year-Intel FAE is working for us since last year, Laurent
> Hennequin).
> 
> _ Sysmic : our software/embedded Linux team, with very strong
> expertise (we also are professional trainers and professors in
> engineering schools/universities). We are agnostic about the material,
> it can be Tokhatec's or the client's one. We have designed last year a
> product named Armonie, based on Buildroot (and Eclipse), as one of us
> (Jérôme Pouiller) is a Buidroot committer (it is aimed at simple
> projects, with a out-of-the-box philosophy: you plug, it's working).
> 
> _ Axupteam : this one is very French, as we provide engineers working
> at the client's office, mainly focusing on embedded expertise,
> whatever the software (Linux, Windows CE, VxWorks).
> 
> We are also launching several internal products, but I can't tell
> anything about it right now, except that they are or will be all Yocto
> based. :)  Actually, one of them is used for my talk.
> On our side, we support several clients' Yocto based projects
> (intercom, home automation, calculators, drones, and so on).
> Currently, we only are users, not yet committers, but we hope that
> hardware vendors will soon trust us to support their Yocto layers
> (I've begun Engicam's boards support, for instance, but I don't know
> if they will be willing to disclose it, as their own current LTIB BSP
> is not public —as always, these kind of things are really delicate in
> industry). By the way, we have been a Freescale partner for a few
> months, looking for and sharing opportunities on software expertise
> worldwide.
> 
> 
> All in all, we are about twenty peoples, 4 million dollars total
> revenue. We are quite young, around five years (it depends on the
> companies of the group, which only exists for one year), but we are
> still growing. Our international exposure is very new, so we don't
> have yet English communication material about our company (but I can
> provide you with French ones if you wish :)  ). Appart from using
> frequently, our commitment for Yocto project by itself is not (yet)
> quite public, but:
> _ We have a Yocto training session (four days, 115 slides).
> _ We promote the Lean Software Factory (LSF) concept which is Yocto
> based (maybe I'll give a talk about it in English some day).
> _ We have given several talks on French events about Yocto.
> _ We push Yocto on engineering school students' projects (BTW, I
> talked with Belen about making my students working on Toaster, as I
> have to give them a Python exam and I also teach them Embedded Linux
> :)  —I will soon present this idea to the school where I teach both
> matters).
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Osier-Mixon @Intel
> Yocto Project Community Manager http://yoctoproject.org
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