OEDVM 2021

Location and Time

Co-located with the Yocto Project Summit held on May 25-26, 2021. Exact times are TBD.

Format

Since this will be a virtual meeting we are going to change the format around to try and make it easier to get input from the global community and still maintain an in person portion.

Running a virtual developer meeting presents a new set of challenges and a chance to engage a larger audience. As always, we will collect topics on the wiki at https://www.openembedded.org/OEDVM_2021. For each topic, we expect at least three people to agree to be moderators for the discussion. About two weeks before the meeting (early May), the OpenEmbedded board and technical steering committee will select 6 topics for discussion.

To increase global participation, we strongly encourage moderators to prerecord 10-15 minutes opening statement describing the topic and current state of solutions. These will be posted to the OpenEmbedded youtube channel so people can view them at a convenient time. We would like to collect feedback as youtube comments (???) (maybe wiki?) We do not expect perfect videos, this can be done by recording a zoom meeting of the moderators. The idea is reach the global community across all time zones and allow them to provide asynchronous input without losing sleep. The remaining 45 minutes are for reviewing comments and further discussion.

For the actual developer meeting, there will be six one hour timeslots for each topic. The moderators have the option of opening with the video or doing something else if the online discussions warrants a change. The moderators should summarize the online comments and then moderate a discussion with the online live audience. We hope that by presenting the topic early, people have a chance to think out concrete solutions for discussion.

The topics discussed during the live meeting will be selected from the topics with the strongest topic moderator support. For example, a topic that no one is willing to moderate will not be selected. If we have more topics with moderators than we can schedule, we will identify the selected topics before moderators start preparing the topic introduction material.

Topic Ideas

• Insight into the life of a Maintainer
• BSPs: best practice exemplars, cross-project issue tracker, linters, incentive loop design
• OE Resourcing: gaps, role naming, work metadata, bridging OSS/commercial

FAQ

The format is new, we will try and add clarifications here.

1. Do I need to be present at the live meeting to moderate a topic? No, just make sure the topic has one or two people for the live session.