Hello all, I work with some folks at Intel who are really passionate about embedded Linux development. We've been working on the Yocto Project, a build system and set of tools you can use to create embedded Linux distributions. If you're familiar with OpenEmbedded or Poky, we are based on these projects.
http://yoctoproject.org One of the things we're adding to this system is an Eclipse-based development environment to help accelerate the creation of embedded Linux userspace applications and Linux-based products. We'd like to get some feedback from people about how well our tools work, and as such we're going to sponsor a little get-together for some folks who want to be our "guinea pigs" to try out our software. We're asking for informed opinions about what we're doing and how we could improve, and in return we will be providing free food and tasty beverages (yes, I mean beer). This gathering will be one evening in late Feb/early March. I'm thinking that the SE Lucky Lab function room would be a good spot to hold this - but this isn't set in stone and in fact is open to suggestions by those who would like to attend. In order to keep this session focused and productive, I'm looking for no more than a dozen people to participate. One or both of the following things should be true: * You've done embedded Linux development before (or are quite familiar with the process - perhaps by setting up a router with OpenWRT and customizing it) * You are familiar with an IDE that runs on Linux, particularly Eclipse We would be open to having 1 or 2 people join this who may not have an embedded background or Eclipse knowledge, but you should be a software application developer and well-versed with your build tools. You have to be willing to do some "homework" first by setting up Eclipse with our plugin. Here's information about where to obtain the plugin and a screencast which demonstrates some basics of using it: http://yoctoproject.org/projects/eclipse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZlOu-gLsh0 To be clear, this isn't intended to be a "training" course on how to use our tools. We're looking more for what your initial impressions are about using these tools and observing how you'll attempt to do a few things with them at the event. Of course we'll be happy to answer questions in-person and on our mailing lists. Does this interest you? If so, please drop me a line (off-list) and we'd be happy to buy dinner and drinks! Thanks, Scott Garman -- Scott Garman sgarman at zenlinux dot com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
