12-02, 14:15–14:45 (UTC), Room A
OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project is a story of an open source project that has gone places non of the original developers expected. This is the story of the long strange trip.
This talk covers the history of OpenEmbedded and how the Yocto Project came to be. Working from a project timeline, this talk will describe the origins of OpenEmbedded and the path from Linux on handheld Linux devices to Mars. Along the way, OpenEmbedded became the foundation of the first Linux Foundation collaborative project.
Philip Balister is a consultant providing services for embedded
systems and software defined radio. Philip has been building embedded
Linux distributions using OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project for
fifteen years for a wide range of hardware. He is an active member
of the OpenEmbedded community and has many contributions to the build
system. He has experience developing embedded Linux solutions for
a wide range of hardware, from general purpose commercial software
radio platforms to specialized spacecraft systems. In addition to
Philip's development experience, he provides training for embedded
Linux development.
He serves on the Advisory Board of the Yocto Project and the OpenEmbedded
Project. He completed his MSEE at Virginia Tech in 2007 and lives in
Blacksburg, Virginia.