<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>I am organizing an OE/Yocto &quot;event&quot; 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.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Agenda: 1) naming, 2) advertising, 3) date, 4) speakers<br></div><div><br></div><div>1) Naming</div><div>So far we haven&#39;t, as of yet, 100% settled on a name for the event. I think the top contenders include &quot;OE/Yocto Summit&quot; and &quot;OE/Yocto Mini-Conf&quot;, with and without the word &quot;User&quot; thrown in there as well (e.g. &quot;OE/Yocto User Summit&quot;).</div><div><br></div><div>Ideas? Votes? Suggestions?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>2) Advertising</div><div>We need a place to advertise this. I&#39;ll be sending out an email to the various OE/Yocto mailing lists (my proposed lists are: <span class="gmail-gI"><span><a href="mailto:yocto@yoctoproject.org">yocto@yoctoproject.org</a> and <span class="gmail-gI"><span><a href="mailto:openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org">openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org</a>) but the more advertising the better. I don&#39;t get the impression there will be any advertisement on the SCaLE website itself, other than to make people aware of a general &quot;Embedded Track&quot; 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?<br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span><br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span><br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span>3) Date</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span>Although SCaLE itself is a 4-day event, this OE/Yocto-specific thing will be 1-day in length. <span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span>While still not 100% cast in stone, this event is very likely to occur on Sunday, March 10, 2019. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span><br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span><br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span>4) Speakers</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span>So far I&#39;ve just been contacting some people directly to test the waters and gauge interest. <span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span>I have not yet sent out a general request for talks.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span><br></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span></span></span></span></span>For this first such event, my goal is to target &quot;users&quot; 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&#39;m keen to reach people who are new, and get their feedback before they learn all the &quot;tribal knowledge&quot;. I would every much like to see future such events targeted towards core developers. But as a first attempt I&#39;m interested in a user conference.<br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span><br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span>As such the current list of people I&#39;ve contacted includes:</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span>Alistair Francis, Western Digital, RISC-V<br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span>Jon Mason, the ARM&lt;-&gt;Yocto liaison</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span>Rich Persaud, OpenXT</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span>Katrina Prosise, Togan Labs<br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span><br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span>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.<br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span><br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span>Alistair has already committed and confirmed a 40-minute talk. Nothing 100% confirmed from the rest quite yet, and spaces are still available.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span><br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span>I don&#39;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&#39;t want to set a hard date too far before the event. I&#39;ll want to firm things up by late January or early February.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span><br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span>The intention is that these talks will be recorded, and posted online at some point.<br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span><br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span><br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span>Best regards,</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span>    Trevor<br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span><br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span><br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span><span class="gmail-gI"><span>[1] <a href="https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/17x">https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/17x</a><br></span></span></span></span></div></div></div>