From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from starfish.geekisp.com (starfish.geekisp.com [216.168.135.166]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 16C86E0044A for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2014 05:36:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 10071 invoked by uid 1003); 2 Jan 2014 13:36:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.122?) (philip@opensdr.com@71.171.44.145) by mail.geekisp.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 2 Jan 2014 13:36:33 -0000 Message-ID: <52C56B60.1040808@balister.org> Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 08:36:32 -0500 From: Philip Balister User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex J Lennon References: <52C4AD81.8070803@balister.org> <52C55CCF.8050301@dynamicdevices.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <52C55CCF.8050301@dynamicdevices.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 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 13:36:37 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 - > > 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 > > > >