[Buildroot] Talk at Embedded Linux Conference Europe

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

Hi Thomas,

First of all, thanks for this mail. It's definitely interesting for
those who weren't there.

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As planned, I gave the talk « Using Buildroot for real projects » on
> Wednesday last week at the Embedded Linux Conference Europe. The room
> was crowded with 50+ people, a pretty good audience compared to many
> other technical talks I've seen during the conference.
>
> Covering the 40+ slides consumed almost the entire time slot, so there
> was only time left for a few questions at the end. Generally speaking,
> I had the feeling that there is definitely an interest in Buildroot, as
> an alternative to bigger things like OE or Yocto. For example, I went to
> the Yocto Bird-of-a-Feather session, and the first 20 minutes of the
> session was spent answering questions of the audience about how Yocto
> compares to Buildroot, what are the relative advantages/drawbacks, etc.

It's nice to hear about this interest in Buildroot.
Was there anything in particular that came out of the Yocto vs.
Buildroot discussion? Things that are seen as a drawback of buildroot
that we could improve without sacrificing the design goals? Features
that are found lacking?

>
> The final version of the slides are available at:
>
>  http://elinux.org/images/2/2a/Using-buildroot-real-project.pdf
>
> I intend to contribute some of those elements to the official
> documentation.

I think that would definitely be useful. As several people indicated,
your write-up of some best practices is very interesting for project
developers.

> I also would like to thank all the persons who reviewed
> my slides and maybe very useful comments. This definitely helped in
> making the talk better.
>
> For those interested, there is a picture of myself giving the talk with
> the beautiful Buildroot t-shirt (I wish I had a yellow helmet to give
> the talk):
>
>  http://www.flickr.com/photos/13825348@N03/6303645373/in/photostream

I would have loved the yellow helmet as well :-D

>
> The video of the talk (as well as the video of all ELCE talks) is
> currently being encoded. I hope to have everything online by the end of
> the week, or at worst early next week. I will send an e-mail when the
> video is available.
>
> The Buildroot Developer Day report is being reviewed by Peter
> currently, I hope to be able to send it at worst tomorrow.

Looking forward to the video and BDD report...

Thanks again for this talk, I think it was a great idea.

Best regards,
thomas