From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from www.dynamicdevices.co.uk (www.dynamicdevices.co.uk [89.200.136.37]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14C6BE0044A for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2014 04:34:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (cpc16-live22-2-0-cust180.know.cable.virginm.net [82.42.220.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by www.dynamicdevices.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6E4BF86150; Thu, 2 Jan 2014 12:34:21 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <52C55CCF.8050301@dynamicdevices.co.uk> Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 12:34:23 +0000 From: Alex J Lennon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: philip@balister.org References: <52C4AD81.8070803@balister.org> In-Reply-To: <52C4AD81.8070803@balister.org> Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: Call for demos X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 12:34:24 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 - 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. Otherwise, no doubt our paths will cross at FOSDEM :) Best Regards, Alex