Yocto Project Virtual Summit 2021

On Tuesday, 25th and Wednesday, 26th, the 3rd edition of the Yocto Project Virtual Summit took place on the internet. With a fair ticket price of 40$ Pengutronix developers Jan Lübbe and Enrico Jörns got a 2-day long wild ride through the latest features, workflows and experiences with the Yocto Project in

  • 18 talks
  • The Open Embedded Developer Meeting
  • A Social Hour

In parallel to the presentation track, there was also a training room with interactive beginner and advanced sessions. These were already full by the time we booked but could be watched for free (without the material of course).

Conference Information

Available on Pretalx: Schedule

YouTube Playlist: Yocto Project Summit 2021

The conference was (again) held in Zoom with using Slack channels for the track Q&A and general communication. For people not willing or able to use Zoom, there was a parallel YouTube live stream. This entire setup really worked like a charm and made it easy to start short technical and non-technical conversations.

OpenEmbedded Developer Meeting

Being more of a co-located event than actually strictly belonging to the Summit itself, the OpenEmbedded Developer Meeting (OEDVM) took place on the second half of the first day. It is a mix of recent and broader topics discussed by the core developers of OpenEmbedded, the actual build system behind the Yocto Project.

For those interested in what is going on, there is a publicly available topic collection in the OpenEmbedded Wiki.

Final Remarks

We would like to say thanks to the Yocto Project organization committee that made this event possible and to Trevor Woerner for moderating the entire two days and having an 'amazing' for each and every talk.

According to his closing remarks, there were 366 people registered for the entire event and thus way more than initially expected. They split up into 51,9% for the presentation track and 48,1% for the beginner class.

The next Summit will probably take place in September, maybe co-located to this year's ELC.

A final very important take away of the two days that we cannot withhold (as it was repeated so frequently): There is a fan shop available, where you can buy all the T-shirts, stickers, etc. you were not be able to collect from in-person events during Covid time!!: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/the-yocto-project/

See you in September, hopefully.


Further Readings

OpenEmbedded Workshop 2020

This year, co-located to the FOSDEM in Brussels, the first OpenEmbedded workshop was held. About 30 OpenEmbedded (and Yocto Project) enthusiasts - from the developers of the first hour to those still collecting their first experiences - got together at the DigitYser tech hub in Brussels. Pengutronix attended with their two developers most involved in OpenEmbedded: Jan Lübbe and Enrico Jörns.


FrOSCon 2023

In a few hours, the 18th FrOSCon will begin at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences. Pengutronix will be there again with a small team. At one of the partner booths we will show some of our activities in the open source community. We will bring our labgrid demonstrator and the FPGA demo.


DjangoCon Europe 2023

Django is Pengutronix' framework of choice for internal applications that handle our business processes. These internal tools are also a great opportunity to try out current developments in the Django universe.


Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2023

After the Corona break, the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage will actully take place in real life again, and the Pengutronix team will have eight (!) talks there.


Tutorial: Start With RAUC Bundle Encryption Using meta-rauc

In its current master branch, RAUC now supports encrypted Bundles. This tutorial will introduce you to the basics of using encryption in RAUC and show how to use it in a simplified Yocto setup with the meta-rauc Layer.


Tutorial: Evaluating RAUC on QEMU - A Quick Setup With Yocto

RAUC is an update framework for safely deploying verified updates on your embedded Linux devices. It ensures atomicity of the update process to protect from sudden power outages, hardware failures, etc. So, why would one like to run RAUC on an emulated platform?


Pengutronix Becomes Yocto Project Participant

Not at least since the Yocto project cannot be thought away from the embedded world, Pengutronix successfully also uses OpenEmbedded next to PTXdist as a distribution build tool in various projects for several years.