[Yocto-Advocacy] OE/Yocto "thing" update 2018-11-28

[Philip Balister]

On 11/28/2018 04:10 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am organizing an OE/Yocto "event" at the upcoming SCaLE conference[1]
> under the conviction OE/Yocto needs to expand beyond ELC/E, and OED{A|E}M.
> Here is an update on my progress.
> 
> 
> Agenda: 1) naming, 2) advertising, 3) date, 4) speakers
> 
> 1) Naming
> So far we haven't, as of yet, 100% settled on a name for the event. I think
> the top contenders include "OE/Yocto Summit" and "OE/Yocto Mini-Conf", with
> and without the word "User" thrown in there as well (e.g. "OE/Yocto User
> Summit").
> 
> Ideas? Votes? Suggestions?

OpenEmbedded/Yocto Project Mini Conf

We hate abbreviations :)

> 
> 
> 2) Advertising
> We need a place to advertise this. I'll be sending out an email to the
> various OE/Yocto mailing lists (my proposed lists are:
> yocto at yoctoproject.org and openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org) but
> the more advertising the better. I don't get the impression there will be
> any advertisement on the SCaLE website itself, other than to make people
> aware of a general "Embedded Track" occurring at the conference. Would it
> be possible/okay to create a page on the OE wiki about it? What about
> something on a Yocto page/wiki?
> 

I can add the event to the OE wiki and link to page for you to edit.

> 
> 3) Date
> Although SCaLE itself is a 4-day event, this OE/Yocto-specific thing will
> be 1-day in length. While still not 100% cast in stone, this event is very
> likely to occur on Sunday, March 10, 2019.
> 

Truly a great day!

> 
> 4) Speakers
> So far I've just been contacting some people directly to test the waters
> and gauge interest. I have not yet sent out a general request for talks.
> 
> For this first such event, my goal is to target "users" of OE/Yocto
> (instead of core developers) and invite them to share their experiences
> (both good and bad) as part of their initial forays into this project. I'm
> keen to reach people who are new, and get their feedback before they learn
> all the "tribal knowledge". I would every much like to see future such
> events targeted towards core developers. But as a first attempt I'm
> interested in a user conference.

The questions we've been struggling with are: Who attends SCALE, What do
they need to know/learn about OE and How can we serve their needs best.
I've never been to SCALE, so I am terrible at judging this.

Thanks for organizing this. I am really interested to see how it turns
out and if my questions get answered.

Philip

> 
> As such the current list of people I've contacted includes:
> Alistair Francis, Western Digital, RISC-V
> Jon Mason, the ARM<->Yocto liaison
> Rich Persaud, OpenXT
> Katrina Prosise, Togan Labs
> 
> We have space for 6 talks if they are 40-minute in length, otherwise we
> could have more talks if a bunch of shorter ones are proposed.
> 
> Alistair has already committed and confirmed a 40-minute talk. Nothing 100%
> confirmed from the rest quite yet, and spaces are still available.
> 
> I don't have a hard deadline yet for proposals, my goal is that these talks
> be relevant when they are given in March. As such, I don't want to set a
> hard date too far before the event. I'll want to firm things up by late
> January or early February.
> 
> The intention is that these talks will be recorded, and posted online at
> some point.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
>     Trevor
> 
> 
> [1] https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/17x
> 
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