From rick at linuxmafia.com Mon Oct 7 23:46:13 2019 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 23:46:13 -0700 Subject: [svlug-announce] SVLUG October meeting: A Million Ways to Provision Embedded Linux Images, with Drew Moseley Message-ID: <20191008064613.GA31391@linuxmafia.com> WHEN: Tuesday, Oct. 8th, 2019 7 - 8:30pm MAIN PRESENTATION TOPIC: A Million Ways to Provision Embedded Linux Images PRESENTED BY: Drew Moseley Technical Solutions Architect, Mender.io project TOPIC SUMMARY: Embedded Linux is increasingly common, due to explosion of the Internet of Things (IoT). There are countless off-the-shelf hardware platforms capable of running embedded Linux, each with its own way to generate and provision images to device storage media. OpenEmbedded is a popular build system for embedded Linux, and is supported by a wide variety of board manufacturers. This build system will be used to discuss different mechanisms for initial provisioning of a variety of hardware platforms, and demonstrate the most widely used mechanisms for getting a new image onto the board. This session will also cover related topics such as OTA (over the air) updates, package manager updates, and containers. This meeting is co-sponsored* by SFBayLUG meetup (https://www.meetup.com/SFBayLUG/) & SVLUG, who both owe huge thanks to Sarah Newman for arranging the venue. ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Drew Moseley is currently part of the Mender.io open source project to deploy OTA software updates to embedded Linux devices. He has worked on embedded projects such as RAID storage controllers, direct- and network- attached storage devices, and graphical pagers. He's spent the last 7 years working in Operating System Professional Services, helping customers develop production embedded Linux systems. He's spent his career in embedded software and developer tools, and has focused on embedded Linux and Yocto for about 10 years. He's currently Customer Engineer at Northern.tech (the company behind the OSS project Mender.io), helping customers develop safer, more-secure connected devices. He's has spoken at various conferences, including Embedded Linux Conference, OSCON, Embedded Systems Conference, Texas Linux Fest, and other technology conferences, and worked previously for Mentor Graphics, Red Hat, Intel, and Monta Vista Software. LOCATION: Hacker Dojo, Large Event Room 3350 Thomas Rd #150 (near Laurelwood Road) Santa Clara Directions on how to get there are listed at: http://www.svlug.org/directions/hackerdojo.php <--- maps here! We've tried our very best for these directions to be accurate. If you have any improvements to make, please let SVLUG's volunteers know! webmaster at svlug.org POST-MEETING GATHERING (if you want): La Victoria Taqueria, 1415 N 4th St. near Gish Road, San Jose. Take US-101 south to Brokaw Road exit, proceeding stiraight two blocks along Technology Place to where you make a slight right curve onto N. 4th Street, proceeding 0.5 miles to La Victoria on your right just before Gish Road. We look forward to seeing you there! *This evening, I belatedly remembered I hadn't double-checked with Kevin Dankwardt to verify that he's OK with listing SVLUG as co-sponsor, and he and Sarah Newman have really done all the work -- but haven't heard back from Kevin at this writing, If I've overstepped by assuming co-sponsorship is OK (as in the past), I apologise in advance to Kevin.