[Buildroot] Complete Buildroot training, with freely available materials

[Buildroot] Complete Buildroot training, with freely available materials

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

I'm happy to announce that Free Electrons has developed a complete
3-days training course on Buildroot:

  http://free-electrons.com/training/buildroot/

It covers a large set of topics about using Buildroot, tuning the
configuration, creating new packages, analyzing the build, using
advanced Buildroot features, doing application development with
Buildroot, and more.

In addition to being a training course available for customers, Free
Electrons also makes freely available all the training materials for
this training course (like for all of the training courses developed
by Free Electrons).

These training materials will I guess be complementing nicely the
existing Buildroot reference manual.

They are available at:

 * Slides
   http://free-electrons.com/doc/training/buildroot/buildroot-slides.pdf

 * Practical labs
   http://free-electrons.com/doc/training/buildroot/buildroot-labs.pdf

 * Practical labs data
   http://free-electrons.com/doc/training/buildroot/buildroot-labs.tar.xz

 * LaTeX source code
   http://git.free-electrons.com/training-materials/

I'd like to thank the members of the Buildroot community who reviewed
those materials before their release and provided useful suggestions
and fixes: Peter Korsgaard, Yann E. Morin, Thomas De Schampheleire,
Gustavo Zacarias and Arnout Vandecappelle. Thanks a lot to them!

Hopefully, having such a professional training course, together with
freely available training materials, will help Buildroot become even
more popular than it is today.

I'm also proposing a patch in the follow-up e-mail, which adds a
reference to the training materials from the Buildroot website.

Best regards,

Thomas

Thomas Petazzoni (1):
  docs/website: link to the Free Electrons training materials

 docs/website/docs.html | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

[Buildroot] [PATCH] docs/website: link to the Free Electrons training materials

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
---
 docs/website/docs.html | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/website/docs.html b/docs/website/docs.html
index c44ad8b..3bd3172 100644
--- a/docs/website/docs.html
+++ b/docs/website/docs.html
@@ -24,7 +24,25 @@ things. It is available as:</p>
 </ul>
 
 <p>If you find any errors (factual, grammatical, whatever) please
-report them to us.</p>
+  report them to us.</p>
+
+<h2>Training</h2>
+
+<p><a href="http://www.free-electrons.com">Free Electrons</a> offers a
+complete <a href="http://free-electrons.com/training/buildroot/">3-days
+training course on Buildroot</a>. They also make the training
+materials freely available:</p>
+
+<ul>
+  <li><a href="http://free-electrons.com/doc/training/buildroot/buildroot-slides.pdf">slides
+      (PDF)</a></li>
+  <li><a href="http://free-electrons.com/doc/training/buildroot/buildroot-labs.pdf">practical
+      labs (PDF)</a></li>
+  <li><a href="http://free-electrons.com/doc/training/buildroot/buildroot-labs.tar.xz">practical
+      labs data (.tar.xz)</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2>Getting support</h2>
 
 <p>If you find that you need help with Buildroot, you can ask for
 help:</p>
-- 
2.1.0

[Buildroot] Complete Buildroot training, with freely available materials

[Lionel Orry]

Dear Thomas,

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:16 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm happy to announce that Free Electrons has developed a complete
> 3-days training course on Buildroot:
>
>   http://free-electrons.com/training/buildroot/

Awesome work! Thanks a lot to everyone who contributed to this guide.
I've read it entirely and I learned a lot of useful stuff and tips.

>
> It covers a large set of topics about using Buildroot, tuning the
> configuration, creating new packages, analyzing the build, using
> advanced Buildroot features, doing application development with
> Buildroot, and more.
>
> In addition to being a training course available for customers, Free
> Electrons also makes freely available all the training materials for
> this training course (like for all of the training courses developed
> by Free Electrons).

Thank you Free Electrons for this philosophy :)

>
> These training materials will I guess be complementing nicely the
> existing Buildroot reference manual.
>
> They are available at:
>
>  * Slides
>    http://free-electrons.com/doc/training/buildroot/buildroot-slides.pdf
>
>  * Practical labs
>    http://free-electrons.com/doc/training/buildroot/buildroot-labs.pdf
>
>  * Practical labs data
>    http://free-electrons.com/doc/training/buildroot/buildroot-labs.tar.xz
>
>  * LaTeX source code
>    http://git.free-electrons.com/training-materials/
>

In case we wish to suggest some corrections / additions, where should
we send patches for review ?

> I'd like to thank the members of the Buildroot community who reviewed
> those materials before their release and provided useful suggestions
> and fixes: Peter Korsgaard, Yann E. Morin, Thomas De Schampheleire,
> Gustavo Zacarias and Arnout Vandecappelle. Thanks a lot to them!
>
> Hopefully, having such a professional training course, together with
> freely available training materials, will help Buildroot become even
> more popular than it is today.
>
> I'm also proposing a patch in the follow-up e-mail, which adds a
> reference to the training materials from the Buildroot website.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
>
> Thomas Petazzoni (1):
>   docs/website: link to the Free Electrons training materials
>
>  docs/website/docs.html | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
> http://free-electrons.com
> _______________________________________________
> buildroot mailing list
> buildroot at busybox.net
> http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/buildroot

Kind regards,
Lionel

[Buildroot] [PATCH] docs/website: link to the Free Electrons training materials

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> writes:

 > Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>

Committed, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

[Buildroot] Complete Buildroot training, with freely available materials

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Thu, 4 Jun 2015 10:44:01 +0200, Lionel Orry wrote:

> > I'm happy to announce that Free Electrons has developed a complete
> > 3-days training course on Buildroot:
> >
> >   http://free-electrons.com/training/buildroot/
> 
> Awesome work! Thanks a lot to everyone who contributed to this guide.
> I've read it entirely and I learned a lot of useful stuff and tips.

Thanks! Glad to know this is useful. As you can imagine, it required
quite a bit of preparation work :-)

> >  * LaTeX source code
> >    http://git.free-electrons.com/training-materials/
> >
> 
> In case we wish to suggest some corrections / additions, where should
> we send patches for review ?

I *think* you can send them to our training-materials-update mailing
list, to which you can subscribe at
http://lists.free-electrons.com/mailman/listinfo/training-materials-updates.
If that doesn't work, just send them to me.

However, for non-trivial contributions, we do ask contributors to
assign their copyright to Free Electrons (which just requires an
e-mail, no paperwork involved).

Looking forward to seeing your patches!

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

[Buildroot] Complete Buildroot training, with freely available materials

[Lionel Orry]

Hi Thomas,

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, 4 Jun 2015 10:44:01 +0200, Lionel Orry wrote:
>
>> > I'm happy to announce that Free Electrons has developed a complete
>> > 3-days training course on Buildroot:
>> >
>> >   http://free-electrons.com/training/buildroot/
>>
>> Awesome work! Thanks a lot to everyone who contributed to this guide.
>> I've read it entirely and I learned a lot of useful stuff and tips.
>
> Thanks! Glad to know this is useful. As you can imagine, it required
> quite a bit of preparation work :-)
>
>> >  * LaTeX source code
>> >    http://git.free-electrons.com/training-materials/
>> >
>>
>> In case we wish to suggest some corrections / additions, where should
>> we send patches for review ?
>
> I *think* you can send them to our training-materials-update mailing
> list, to which you can subscribe at
> http://lists.free-electrons.com/mailman/listinfo/training-materials-updates.
> If that doesn't work, just send them to me.

Well I eventually sent them to you since I'm still waiting for
moderator approval on the training-materials-update list... :)

>
> However, for non-trivial contributions, we do ask contributors to
> assign their copyright to Free Electrons (which just requires an
> e-mail, no paperwork involved).
>
> Looking forward to seeing your patches!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
> http://free-electrons.com

Regards,
Lionel