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 > > Otherwise, no doubt our paths will cross at FOSDEM :) > > Best Regards, > > Alex > > > > _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
