Re: Call for demos

[Alex J Lennon <ajlennon@dynamicdevices.co.uk>]

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On 02/01/2014 13:36, Philip Balister wrote:
> 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. I'll follow up at this end then.

Alex

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

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