[Buildroot] Request for review: buildroot in Open Mobile Linux devroom of FOSDEM

[Buildroot] Request for review: buildroot in Open Mobile Linux devroom of FOSDEM

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

 Hoi all,

 As I announced earlier, I'll be giving a talk in the Open Mobile Linux
devroom on FOSDEM.  I would like to get feedback on the slides.  You can
find them on http://mind.be/?page=publications (in .odp and .pdf).

 It's a 15 minute talk.  My goal is not to explain how to use buildroot,
but rather to convince the audience that buildroot (or something similar)
is the way to go for "open" embedded devices, because it empowers the
user to make modifications and improvements.

 My slides aren't really stand-alone, so it may actually be difficult to
review them without hearing my talk :-(

 Regards,
 Arnout

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[Buildroot] Request for review: buildroot in Open Mobile Linux devroom of FOSDEM

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Arnout,

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 09:50:18AM +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
>  As I announced earlier, I'll be giving a talk in the Open Mobile Linux
> devroom on FOSDEM.  I would like to get feedback on the slides.  You can
> find them on http://mind.be/?page=publications (in .odp and .pdf).

Slide no. 3 looks identical to slide no. 1 in the PDF version. Is this 
intentional?

baruch

>  It's a 15 minute talk.  My goal is not to explain how to use buildroot,
> but rather to convince the audience that buildroot (or something similar)
> is the way to go for "open" embedded devices, because it empowers the
> user to make modifications and improvements.
> 
>  My slides aren't really stand-alone, so it may actually be difficult to
> review them without hearing my talk :-(
> 
>  Regards,
>  Arnout

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[Buildroot] Request for review: buildroot in Open Mobile Linux devroom of FOSDEM

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On Monday 16 January 2012 10:00:57 Baruch Siach wrote:
> Hi Arnout,
> 
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 09:50:18AM +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> >  As I announced earlier, I'll be giving a talk in the Open Mobile Linux
> > devroom on FOSDEM.  I would like to get feedback on the slides.  You can
> > find them on http://mind.be/?page=publications (in .odp and .pdf).
> 
> Slide no. 3 looks identical to slide no. 1 in the PDF version. Is this 
> intentional?

 Yes, that's something I learned from Jean-luc Doumont (an excellent 
communications teacher, http://principiae.be - shameless plug): starting
a presentation with a title slide isn't very useful, because you only
get to the subject of the talk after explaining some context.  So the title
slide should be the second slide.  However, while you're waiting to start,
something should be projected already, and the title slide is good for that.
So I always repeat the title slide.

 Regards,
 Arnout

-- 
Arnout Vandecappelle                               arnout at mind be
Senior Embedded Software Architect                 +32-16-286540
Essensium/Mind                                     http://www.mind.be
G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium                BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven
LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle
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[Buildroot] Request for review: buildroot in Open Mobile Linux devroom of FOSDEM

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Le Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:50:18 +0100,
Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> a ?crit :

>  As I announced earlier, I'll be giving a talk in the Open Mobile
> Linux devroom on FOSDEM.  I would like to get feedback on the
> slides.  You can find them on http://mind.be/?page=publications
> (in .odp and .pdf).
> 
>  It's a 15 minute talk.  My goal is not to explain how to use
> buildroot, but rather to convince the audience that buildroot (or
> something similar) is the way to go for "open" embedded devices,
> because it empowers the user to make modifications and improvements.
> 
>  My slides aren't really stand-alone, so it may actually be difficult
> to review them without hearing my talk :-(

I did a quick review, and those slides look good. As you say, without
the actual speech, it's hard to see where you want to go. From my point
of view, the very important thing with embedded Linux build systems is
repeatability/reproducibility. I have seen way too many
people/companies building their embedded Linux system by randomly
cross-compiling dozens of libraries manually, without any way of
reproducing that build process.

Best regards,

Thomas
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