[yocto-ab] YP Advisory Board: VOTE YP Participant, RTSoft

[Philip Balister]

Yes from OpenEmbedded

On 02/20/2017 08:33 AM, Osier-mixon, Jeffrey wrote:
> I thought RTSoft had already been inducted into the ranks of YP Participants, but evidently not. They have been around for a while as active consultants in Germany. They technically have a few more employees than our application specifies, but we have allowed other orgs with that many employees in before.
> 
> Please vote yes/no on RTSoft as a YP Participant:
> 
>  --Contact information--
>      Organization / project name: RTSoft SWDC
>      Contact name: hubert.hafner at rtsoft.de<mailto:hubert.hafner at rtsoft.de>
>      Contact email address: hubert.hafner at rtsoft.de<mailto:hubert.hafner at rtsoft.de>
>      URL to organization or product link: www.rtsoft.de<http://www.rtsoft.de/>
>      Registration date: 2017-02-20
>      Compliance Agreement revision: 1.0
> 
> 
> Criteria:
>   - Visibly participating in the Yocto Project community. Please describeyour
> participation in the comments section below.: Yes
>   - 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, andBSP
> format.: Yes
>   - Are all your publicly accessible layers listed in the OpenEmbedded Layers
> index (http://layers.openembedded.org<http://layers.openembedded.org/>)?: No (explain below)
>   - Committed to sending to the open source community any patches to
> OpenEmbedded-Core, BitBake and other Yocto Project layers.: No (explain
> below)
>   - 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.: No (explain below)
> Explanation:
> Hello,
> 
> RTSoft is focussed on embedded Software development. In terms of yocto, we
> help our customers to port their BSPs to a proper Yocto approach. We are a
> profit-company with round-about 100 developers. We do not list all layers nor
> send all the patches back. The reason therefore is that we work on behalf of
> customrs, the drive the direction what to be published and sent back to
> community - of course all in allignment with copyright copyleft agreements.
> 
> Jeffrey "Jefro" Osier-Mixon, Intel Corporation
> Open Source Community Engineer & Advocate
> Yocto Project Community Manager
> 
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