[svlug] Presentation Tuesday October 8th: A Million Ways to Provision Embedded Linux Images

[Sarah Newman]

Date and time: Tuesday October 8th, 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: The large event room at Hacker Dojo, 3350 Thomas Road, Santa Clara, CA.

Summary: Provisioning remote Linux devices is fraught with risk. Developers have taken quite a few approaches. Drew will discuss various approaches 
along with their risks and benefits. Bricking a device is an unhappy occurrence and one can avoid a lot of the risks with a well designed approach.

Presenter: Drew Moseley

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 has spent the last 7 years working in Operating System Professional Services helping customers develop production embedded Linux systems. He has 
spent his career in embedded software and developer tools and has focused on Embedded Linux and Yocto for about 10 years. He is currently a Customer 
Engineer at Northern.tech (the company behind the OSS project Mender.io), helping customers develop safer, more secure connected devices.

Drew has spoken at various conferences, including Embedded Linux Conference, OSCON, Embedded Systems Conference, Texas Linux Fest, and other 
technology conferences.

He worked previously as a Technical Project Manager and Professional Services Engineer for Mentor Graphics. Previous to that, he has worked with Red 
Hat, Intel, and Monta Vista Software.