On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Tim Bird <tim.b...@am.sony.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have for some time been considering the state of the embedded > Linux community, and some of the challenges facing us. As an > embedded Linux developer myself, I am interested in improving > both my own working conditions and my efficiency and > effectiveness in my own projects. But also I think we could > be having more fun, and learning and growing more if our > community were stronger. > > In this message I am writing some of my own ideas, and would like > to solicit feedback on these and get other people's ideas as well.
Tim speaks for me in every word. I have been working to address some of these issues from within the Yocto Project community as well, but as Tim says, they are really endemic to embedded Linux - and indeed to embedded systems, where the heterogeneity of hardware naturally leads to fragmentation, and the huge volumes and relatively low margins leads to a culture of secrecy among companies that bleeds into open source. It is a magnificent challenge, and I think it stretches the open source culture in some really fantastic ways. Tim - thanks very much for discussing this. I look forward to participating in the ensuing discussions, and action items, and I'll do some thinking over the weekend about where I personally and the Yocto Project in general can contribute. <snip> -- Jeff Osier-Mixon http://jefro.net/blog Yocto Project Community Manager @Intel http://yoctoproject.org _______________________________________________ Celinux-dev mailing list Celinux-dev@lists.celinuxforum.org https://lists.celinuxforum.org/mailman/listinfo/celinux-dev
