[oe] Call for demos

eric eric at eric-weiss.de
Thu Jan 2 11:58:12 UTC 2014


On 01/02/14 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 would like to bring in an ouya game console ( need and hdmi for 
monitor it )
and maybe ( depends on if i get repaired the display glass right in 
time) an  asus tf201  transformer.

> I'd like to use this as a way for us to show support for vendors that
> support us.
>
> Philip
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