[yocto] Call for demos

[Philip Balister]

On 01/02/2014 07:34 AM, Alex J Lennon wrote:
> 
> On 02/01/2014 00:06, Philip Balister wrote:
>> I was thinking about demos for FOSDEM (thanks to the people that have
>> already offered some) and realized I should reach out to the broader
>> community.
>>
>> OpenEmbedded has a stand (table) at FOSDEM to show of the project to the
>> oen source community. Typically, whoever comes to FOSDEM brings whatever
>> cool thing they are working on with OE at the time. I'd liek to try and
>> get some more diverse hardware on display to show how flexible the
>> project is.
>>
>> A good demo should be visually interesting. Blinking lights/ LCD panels
>> etc. A few static seriously embedded things are fine, but people love to
>> see blinking lights :)
>>
>> Long term, I'd like to build up a set of physically small demos we can
>> pass around as people attend various conferences to show off
>> OpenEmbedded (and the Yocto Project) capabilities.
>>
>> What I am looking for is boards with good BSP layers that are well
>> supported (preferably by the manufacturer in some way) and have an image
>> that is easy for people to reproduce. (Basically, we should show stuff
>> that people can go home, order hardware, and build the demo image
>> without a lot of tweaking).
>>
>> So what I am looking for is:
>>
>> 1) Donations of hardware we can demo
>> 2) Software support for the hardware
>>
>> I'd like to use this as a way for us to show support for vendors that
>> support us.
> 
> Philip,
> 
> The offer I made to bring along a demo still stands -
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> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2013-November/017124.html
> 
> Somewhat surprised not to have had a response, as I believe this would make
> a good demo for the Yocto project (meta-freescale, i.MX6, production
> hardware,
> IoT and so forth)

> 
> (There may also be a discussion to be had about extended loan of an
> i.MX6 based
> system which you may be able to use at various conferences moving forward)
> 
> This is still achievable if there is interest, but I'll need to know
> soon or will not
> have time to pull things together prior to end of month.

Thanks Alex, Paul and I did remember your offer and we will be glad to
show it. We would be interested in an extended loan. I am pretty sure we
can use it at at least three conferences and possibly more.

Thanks,

Philip

> 
> Otherwise, no doubt our paths will cross at FOSDEM :)
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Alex
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