The Yocto Project® Virtual Summit 2021 is a virtual technical conference for engineers, open source technologists, students and academia in the OSS space.

CFP Schedule

• CFP Opens: Tuesday, March 30, 2021
• CFP Closes: 11:59 PM PST on Sunday, April 25, 2021
• CFP Notifications: Monday, May 10, 2021
• Slides Due Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2021
• Conference Dates: Tuesday, May 25 to Wednesday, May 26, 2021
• Conference Time: 12:00pm - 8:00pm GMT

List of topics:

• DevTool
• Layer quality: e.g. creating robust layers, safely using existing layers
• Future languages (e.g. Rust)
• Productivity tricks and tools, Best Practices
• VS Code integration
• Security
• Reproducibility
• Init systems: pros and cons, selection, configuration
• Leveraging the new runqueue optimizations for mirrors, reproducible builds
• Supporting the Application Developer
• DevOps, CI/CD
• Containers, VMs
• Working with/creating BSPs
• Practical use of the Yocto Project

Presentation formats

We provide 30 minutes and 45 minutes time slots for talks/presentation, and 60 and 90 minutes time slots for hands-on classes. Lightning talks will be 15 mins each.