OEDEM 2006

During “weekend” (Thursday — Sunday) I was in Berlin, Germany where OEDEM took place. It was nice to finally meet people whom I know via Internet for years.

From left to right:

• Richard `RP’ Purdie from OpenedHand
• Tomas Frydrych from OpenedHand
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• Michael `Mickey’ Lauer
• Koen Kooi
• Florian Boor from Kernel concepts
• Holger `Zecke’ Freyther

We had many discussions about important OpenEmbedded things like problems, policies, creating some kind of OpenEmbedded Foundation for managing domains, trademarks, donations etc. Some of results are already happening:

• removal of MAINTAINER fields (which we are going to replace with /MAINTAINERS file)
• switching to task-base instead of the old one task-bootstrap to get clean images with just needed packages
• removal of ipaq-pxa270 machines in favour of hx4700, hx2000 machines

• new mailing lists got created:

  – openembedded-issues with information from bugtracker – openembedded-users for all normal users which are not ready yet for openembedded-devel list – openembedded-announce for announcing

More stuff will follow soon. I’m going to write documentation about task-base stuff, how to switch distro/machine to use it etc.

Related posts:

1. How to use task-base
2. OpenEmbedded documentation day
3. 30 months of OpenEmbedded and me
4. How to install additional software into your OE generated rootfs
5. Self hosted Ångström build