Last night I was pleasantly surprised when seven other folks showed up at Staccato Gelato for the first PLUG embedded Linux meet-up. We had a diverse range of interests represented, from the "curious, wanting to learn more" camp to folks working on embedded projects at various levels - from x86 appliances to low-power ARM/PowerPC devices to microcontroller projects. There was also some discussion about
Announcements: Maemo.org is holding its first bugday next Tuesday, 12/15. Drop by the #maemo-bugs channel on the FreeNode IRC network to get involved. http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/2009/12/07/maemo-org-bugday-dec-15th-1800-0300-utc/ Project Ideas: I'm going to start a second email thread shortly to describe some of the project ideas that were discussed. It would be great to see if any of these ideas could take off. Note: I'm currently following-up on some info from the attendees to make sure I have the right info on this list, so that email will likely go out later this weekend. Group Resources: Absent any objections, our plan is to use this mailing list for embedded Linux discussions until it becomes apparent that we really need a new mailing list resource. This should help keep our actions visible to other potentially interested members of PLUG and encourage growth during our establishment. At some point we may also need a few other online resources, such as a wiki or source code repository. In most cases there are plenty of free resources out there (e.g, SourceForge/Google Apps/GitHub) for open source projects. I think it's best just to play this by ear and get things set up on an as-needed basis. Upcoming Meetings: I'm not sure if Staccato Gelato is going to work as our main meeting location, as the place filled up with some families later in the evening and it became pretty challenging for everyone to hear each other. My feeling for now is to hold off on scheduling another meet-up until a clear meeting agenda arises, and then figure out where to host it. In the meantime, I think I was somehow tricked into doing an upcoming Advanced Topics presentation on OpenEmbedded. :) So keep an eye out for that. Scott -- Scott Garman sgarman at zenlinux dot com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
