Yocto Project at Embedded Open-Source Summit 2023

The Yocto Project was present at the Embedded Open-Source Summit, which took place in Prague, Czech Republic, between June 26 and 30, 2023.

The Yocto Project Dev Day, the first edition since 2019, was a big success, and was sold out. We even had to add tables at the back of the room at the end!

Slides and videos for the talks are now available:

Introduction and Welcome, David Reyna, Josef Holzmayr, Megan Knight: slides, video
Why is my build so slow?, Ross Burton: slides, video
Updates of Yocto-Based Projects: Effective strategies for ongoing maintenance, Tomasz Żyjewski: slides, video
meta-virtualization: moving past source-only, basic containers, Bruce Ashfield: slides, video
Customize your CROPS containers with crops-generator, Tim Orling, Eilís ‘pidge’ Ní Fhlannagáin: slides, video
Dos And Don’ts When Using A Yocto-based BSP: Case Studies, Mohammed Billoo: slides, video
Yocto Project Q&A, Khem Raj
Common design mistakes and suggested better practices, Enguerrand de Ribaucourt: slides, video
Unveiling OpenBMC: Exploring features and preparing the build environment, Tomasz Żyjewski, Maciej Pijanowski: slides, video
linux-yocto: quietly providing base kernel integration supportM: Bruce Ashfield: slides, video
Quick Development Cycles with NFS-Root: A Prototype Tool, Enrico Jörns: slides, video
Dog + Doom = Demo, Josef Holzmayr: video
We are “The Next Generation”, Josef Holzmayr: video
Self paced hands-on classes, David Reyna: slides 1, slides 2

A major announcement was also made on that day, extending the current and future Long Term Support (LTS) releases to 4 years. This guarantees that there will be sufficient overlap between such releases, and that device makers can rely on one release for up to 4 years.

Timeline of Yocto Project releases

There were at least four talks related to the Yocto Project at Embedded Linux Conference on the following days, and a well attended Birds of a Feather (BoF) session too:

Yocto Project/OpenEmbedded Meets Security, Marta Rybczynska, Syslinbit: slides, video
Setting up Yocto Layers and Builds with Official Tools — 2023 Edition, Alexander Kanavin, Linutronix: slides, video
The Yocto Project — Where We’re Going and What’s Next, Philip Balister, The Yocto Project: slides, video
Tracking Vulnerabilities with Buildroot and Yocto, Arnout Vandecappelle, Mind: slides, video
BoF: The Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded Organization, Philip Balister, OpenEmbedded & Josef Holzmayr, Mender.io: slides, video

Though not very crowded, we still had a constant stream of people passing by and chatting with our volunteers at the Yocto Project booth. This was an opportunity to see new faces, mostly people already using the Yocto Project.

Special thanks to Andy, Ross, and Philip, Josef and Megan who dedicated a lot of time to this booth, and to all the others who helped too.

We are happy to have new members joining the project. This forces us to print new banners at event events, but that’s a minor constraint, as members are critical to securing funding and engineering resources for the project.

Last but not least, the next edition of the Yocto Project Summit, an on-line event as usual, will take place on Nov 28-30, 2023. There should be one day of hands-on and training, and two days of sessions. We will start organizing this event from the end of August. Stay tuned on https://summit.yoctoproject.org.

Waiting for the next time we can meet in person, we are grateful for the Linux Foundation for hiring a professional photographer and sharing the below pictures of these memorable moments spent together…

Yocto Project booth