Open Source Summit Europe 2024: Full Schedule

September 16-18, 2024
Vienna, Austria
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11:20 CEST

Embedded Linux in EOD Robots - Lessons Learned - Marcin Bis, Łukasiewicz Research Network – Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements PIAP

Monday September 16, 2024 11:20 - 12:00 CEST

Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

Lessons learned, benefits and some drawbacks learned from utilizing Embedded Linux, Yocto Project and other parts of Opensource software stack in development, production and maintenance of Mobile Robots for special operations. A history of the Polish mobile robots has begun in 1999 with a prototype INSPECTOR robot designed and build by Łukasiewicz Research Network – Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements PIAP. Since about 2010 the robots became digital and started to use Linux and build systems. The talk covers some practical aspects of design and implementation of ARM and x86 Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) mobile robots, the industry transformation and response to Embedded Linux and Yocto Project software stack from a perspective of small engineering team chasing a constantly shifting targets. An insight, successes and failures throughout more than 10 years of utilizing Embedded Linux, Yocto Project, real-time aspects of the operating system and additional topics such as software update, system monitoring, safety critical operations and data encryption and safety will be also covered.

Speakers

Marcin Bis

Lead Programmer, Łukasiewicz Research Network – Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements PIAP

I have been dealing with Linux since 2007, working with customers to create business value by migrating to open-source solutions. I am always eager to work on challenging projects as they sharpen my skills through hands-on experience and contribute to the growth of the industry. I... Read More →

Monday September 16, 2024 11:20 - 12:00 CEST
Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Level Beginner

12:15 CEST

How to Build Your Own High-Performance Charger with EVerest - Andreas Heinrich & Kai-Uwe Hermann, Pionix GmbH

Monday September 16, 2024 12:15 - 12:55 CEST

Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

In this talk we will give you a comprehensive overview of the complex task of building a high-performance DC vehicle charging station. We will show you how the EVerest project addresses a diverse set of challenges across all areas of the required software stack. EVerest abstracts away the complexities of reliably communicating with vehicles of all makes and models to enable successful charging sessions with robust implementations of the relevant communication protocols, such as ISO 15118-2/20 and DIN 70121 including Plug & Charge. Communication with backend systems of different providers can be achieved through the OCPP 2.0.1 and 1.6 standards. We will also explain how error handling and reporting are managed in a system running a diverse set of EVerest modules. Additionally we will discuss our strategy for generating comprehensive documentation for a project that spans multiple actively developed repositories. EVerest is an Apache 2.0 licensed project within LF Energy. It was initiated by PIONIX GmbH to support the electrification of the mobility sector.

Speakers

Kai-Uwe Hermann

Principal Engineer, Pionix GmbH

Kai-Uwe Hermann studied computer science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and worked as a researcher in a robotics and autonomous driving group. Since 2021 he works as a Principal Engineer at PIONIX and is one of the driving forces behind the LF Energy Project EVerest

Andreas Heinrich

Andreas Heinrich, PIONIX GmbH

Andreas Heinrich started coding with LEGO Mindstorms as a kid. He joined PIONIX in 2021 and works on software for EV charging. His bachelor's thesis focused on energy management and optimizing photovoltaic self-consumption. He enjoys working on projects that make a positive impac... Read More →

Monday September 16, 2024 12:15 - 12:55 CEST
Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Level Any

13:20 CEST

ELinux Wiki BOF - Tim Bird, Sony Electronics

Monday September 16, 2024 13:20 - 14:00 CEST

Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

In this session, the status of the elinux wiki will be discussed, along with ideas for expanding and updating the content for the site. The elinux wiki has served as a resource for embedded Linux developers for almost 18 years. The wiki contains a lot of great material, including slides and videos for almost every embedded Linux Conference. In this session, Tim will discuss the wiki, and we'll brainstorm ideas for rejuvenating the site, and utilizing it as an effective community resource. Rewards will be available if you make an edit to the wiki during the BOF!! Let's work together to improve this valuable resource!

Speakers

Tim Bird

Principal Software Engineer, Sony Electronics

Tim Bird is a Principal Software Engineer for Sony Corporation, where he helps Sony use Linux and other open source software in their products. Tim is the maintainer of the Fuego test framework, and is involved with various Linux Foundation projects (including being a member of the... Read More →

Monday September 16, 2024 13:20 - 14:00 CEST
Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Level Any

14:15 CEST

Linux in Space: Fault Detection, Recovery and Fault-Tolerant System Designs - Lenka Kosková Třísková & Lukas Mazl, Technical University of Liberec & Tomas Novotny, VZLU

Monday September 16, 2024 14:15 - 14:55 CEST

Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

Linux in space must be highly reliable and autonomous, both because of the hostile external environment, the physical unavailability of the system, and the limited data flow and direct system administration capabilities. Radiation and other external influences lead to sudden shutdowns and system reboots. Also, data stored in storage devices are at risk of radiation and physical effects. Therefore, the design of a satellite always considers which parts of the system to duplicate or otherwise insure and how to ensure the system's ability to detect an error and recover. In the design of Linux4Space, we have encountered various approaches to solving the problem (from "we have two SD cards, and one is sure to last six months" to "fully duplicated storage and CPU with error detection"). We have reviewed the designs of other satellites and systems. In this paper, we provide some specific examples from natural satellites and summarize everything we have been able to find and track down for various other solutions, examples, and demonstrations.

Speakers

Tomas Novotny

Research and Development Engineer, VZLU

Tomáš Novotný is an embedded Linux systems developer. He works on embedded systems for satellites currently. His previous projects were in the fields of biometric access systems, home automation and fire engine control.

Lenka Kosková Třísková

Teacher, Researcher, Technical University of Liberec

Lenka is an embedded software developer with a long history in the automotive and avionics industries. She has worked for STMicroelectronics, Skoda Auto, and Hood GmbH as a software specialist and requirements engineer. She teaches the operating systems theory and runs several research... Read More →

Lukas Mazl

Researcher and Lecturer, Technical University of Liberec

Lukáš Mázl graduated from the IT study program at the Technical University of Liberec, where he is now working as a Ph. D. student and researcher. He had been working in the Unicorn software company as a software architect. He is the project leader of Linux4Space.

Monday September 16, 2024 14:15 - 14:55 CEST
Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Level Beginner

15:25 CEST

What's Happening with Automotive Grade Linux and How Our Update to Yocto 5.0 Went - Walt Miner, The Linux Foundation & Scott Murray, Konsulko Group

Monday September 16, 2024 15:25 - 16:05 CEST

Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

Automotive Grade Linux released the Quirky Quillback version of the UCB in February and Royal Ricefish is coming in the Summer of 2024. The latest release includes an update to the Yocto project LTS version 5.0. We will give an update on the latest AGL features included in the Ricefish release. We also want to share some lessons learned from upgrading from the 4.0 to 5.0 versions of the Yocto Project.

Speakers

Walt Miner

Senior Director of Community - Automotive Grade Linux, The Linux Foundation

Walt Miner is the Senior Director of Community at The Linux Foundation and has served as Community Manager for Automotive Grade Linux since 2014. Walt has spoken at numerous conferences throughout the worlds and brings over 30 years of embedded software development and management... Read More →

Scott Murray

Principal Software Engineer, Konsulko Group

Scott has been a Linux user for almost 30 years, and has developed Linux based embedded products for almost 25 years at a variety of companies large and small. Currently, he works for Konsulko Group as a Principal Software Engineer, providing embedded Linux engineering services for... Read More →

Monday September 16, 2024 15:25 - 16:05 CEST
Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Level Beginner

16:20 CEST

Embedded Audio Policies Made Easy with WirePlumber - George Kiagiadakis, Collabora

Monday September 16, 2024 16:20 - 17:00 CEST

Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

Building robust audio policies on embedded systems that integrate well with upstream APIs and components such as PipeWire and PulseAudio has been a challenging task for a long time. In many implementations, custom hardware DSP management components are built, bypassing existing upstream functionality, making integration and maintenance harder than they need to be. In this talk, George will explain how many of these difficulties can be overcome by integrating management directly into WirePlumber, the default session manager of PipeWire, and how existing functionality can be factored in to build complex solutions with ease. Emphasis will be given also on how recent developments in WirePlumber have improved this particular use case.

Speakers

George Kiagiadakis

Principal Software Engineer, Collabora

George Kiagiadakis is a principal software engineer at Collabora, with over 14 years of experience in open source and embedded multimedia projects in particular. He is the author and maintainer of WirePlumber, a modular session manager for PipeWire, and has worked extensively with... Read More →

Monday September 16, 2024 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Level Intermediate

09:00 CEST

Linux Power Management Features, Their Relationships and Interactions - Théo Lebrun, Bootlin

Tuesday September 17, 2024 09:00 - 09:40 CEST

Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

Over time, many features have been introduced into the Linux kernel to tackle various Power Management related needs. Most features rely upon the device model to provide its features, making each feature in isolation have rather understandable behavior and straight forward APIs. Complexity can creep in however when those various features interact with each other. We'll therefore cover features in isolation: system-wide suspend, hibernation, runtime power management, power domains, Quality of Service, etc. On each new step added, we'll stop to reflect on potential interactions or conflicts with previously seen features. Some of those will come from concrete issues encountered during the upstreaming effort of Suspend-to-RAM support on an automative SoC, the TI J7200 platform.

Speakers

Théo Lebrun

Embedded Linux engineer, Bootlin

Théo joined Bootlin as an intern, studying the potential applications for the PipeWire ecosystem to embedded topics. He then went onto kernel work: suspend-to-RAM support for a TI automotive SoC and upstreaming of base platform support for Mobileye platforms.

Tuesday September 17, 2024 09:00 - 09:40 CEST
Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Level Intermediate

09:50 CEST

Heterogeneous Linux and RTOS Software Architecture for Low-Price RISC-V Cores - Jim Huang, National Cheng Kung University

Tuesday September 17, 2024 09:50 - 10:30 CEST

Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

SoCs are increasingly heterogeneous, featuring multiple processor clusters and special-purpose accelerators. Consequently, Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) systems must support different operating environments concurrently on the same chip. This talk will outline the software architecture necessary to develop applications for AMP systems, enabling operating systems to interact across a range of complex homogeneous and heterogeneous architectures. This allows AMP applications to utilize the parallelism offered by various configurations. We perform prototyping on low-cost RISC-V processor cores configured as AMP systems running the Linux kernel and RTOSes such as ThreadX. This setup involves an IPC layer that implements RPMSG communication between cores. Additionally, our proxy infrastructure showcases the ability of a proxy on the master core to handle POSIX library calls from RTOS-based remote contexts.

Speakers

Jim Huang

Assistant Professor, National Cheng Kung University

Drawing from his contributions to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), Jim specializes in real-time performance tuning and optimization of Linux-based automations. Additionally, he is a co-founder of the LXDE project, a lightweight desktop environment widely utilized in embedded... Read More →

Tuesday September 17, 2024 09:50 - 10:30 CEST
Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Level Beginner

11:00 CEST

The Case for an SoC Power Management Driver - Stephen Boyd, Google

Tuesday September 17, 2024 11:00 - 11:40 CEST

Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

DeviceTree (DT) based systems usually lack a platform or firmware based device power management framework. Device drivers are left to figure out if a device is already powered on at probe and duplicate power management logic to manage system resources such as clks or interconnects. This is unlike ACPI based systems where the firmware provides standardized device power states to power on or off a device and mostly hides system resources behind a firmware interface. This session will make the case for implementing an ACPI-like power management framework in the Linux kernel via pmdomains registered by a System-on-Chip (SoC) driver. First we'll discuss the problem and previously attempted or ongoing solutions. Then we'll cover a case study implementing an SoC power management driver. Attendees will leave with a greater understanding of SoC power management techniques and the problems kernel developers face in supporting such hardware upstream along with a possible solution to implement this design elsewhere.

Speakers

Stephen Boyd

Software Engineer, Google, Google

Stephen Boyd has been a Linux kernel developer since 2009 and a Linux kernel maintainer since 2014. He's currently the maintainer of the kernel's clk and SPMI subsystems working on ChromeOS at Google.

Tuesday September 17, 2024 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Level Intermediate

11:55 CEST

Building and Maintaining Binary Distributions with Yocto - Michael Opdenacker, Independent

Tuesday September 17, 2024 11:55 - 12:35 CEST

Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

Imagine a world in which you can try the Yocto Project without even using it. This was possible in the past with the Ångström distribution, offering ready-made images which could be extended through binary package feeds. Though Ångström is long gone, the Yocto Project still has the ability to generate such images and package feeds. While system makers are still using this feature, the Yocto Project itself has never published such binaries. The Yocto Project, thanks to funding from the Sovereign Tech Fund, has recently developed its abilities to support binary distributions, by creating tooling to verify the ability to upgrade the images built for its releases through package feeds, and to support managing a "local" distribution that can customize packages offered by an "upstream" distribution. Since Yocto is about recipes, I will first present a cookbook for building your own images so that they can be updated through package feeds. I will then describe the recently developed features related to binary distributions and what possibilities they open for the Yocto Project and its users.

Speakers

Michael Opdenacker

Embedded Linux Consultant and Trainer, Independent

Michael Opdenacker is an independent consultant and trainer specialized in embedded Linux. He is the founder of Bootlin, who contributed to Linux World Domination by training thousands of engineers around the world on embedded Linux and its kernel, sharing all its materials under... Read More →

Tuesday September 17, 2024 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Level Intermediate

13:00 CEST

RISC-V and RISE Project BoF - Drew Fustini, Tenstorrent

Tuesday September 17, 2024 13:00 - 13:40 CEST

Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

RISC-V is an open instruction set that is taking the world by storm, enabling new and creative hardware designs across the spectrum of computing devices - many of which are themselves open. This BoF is a meeting place at EOSS to discuss the current state of RISC-V as well as the RISE Project, an open source initiative under LF Europe to support the RISC-V software ecosystem.

Speakers

Drew Fustini

Linux Kernel Engineer, Tenstorrent

Drew Fustini is an open hardware designer and embedded Linux developer. He serves on the board of directors for the Open Source Hardware Association and the BeagleBoard.org Foundation, and is an ambassador for the RISC-V Foundation. Drew designs circuit boards for OSH Park, a PCB... Read More →

Tuesday September 17, 2024 13:00 - 13:40 CEST
Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Level Any

14:00 CEST

Are You Ready For Scarthgap? Best Practices For The Latest Yocto Project LTS Release - Tim Orling, Konsulko Group

Tuesday September 17, 2024 14:00 - 14:40 CEST

Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

The latest Long Term Support release of the Yocto Project, code named “scarthgap”, has support until April 2028. With proven techniques to upgrade from older releases we hope to encourage you to move forward with confidence. We will start with recommendations for how to set up your own “distribution”, board-support package (BSP) and software layers. We will share some techniques for managing and discovering layers. We will discuss best practices to ensure your public layers are ready for the Layer Index. We will investigate how to use meta-lts-mixin layers to be able to use newer releases of components like Rust, Go and U-Boot. As supply chain becomes increasingly important, we will cover the latest Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and license compliance (SPDX) tools. We will share some tools for discovering software vulnerabilities (CVEs) in your project. New IDE tools were added in this release and we share ways to leverage them, along with containers to ensure your builds are consistent and reproducible. We will cover some of the over the air update tools which are available. Our examples will leverage some of the newest single-board computers: Raspberry Pi 5 and Beagle Play.

Speakers

Tim Orling

Principal Software Engineer, Konsulko Group

Tim Orling is a Principal Software Engineer at Konsulko Group. Tim joined Konsulko Group at the end of 2021. Tim was elected to the OpenEmbedded Board in 2022. He has spent many years as a volunteer developer for OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project. He has been an open source software... Read More →

Tuesday September 17, 2024 14:00 - 14:40 CEST
Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Level Any

14:55 CEST

Licensing Support by Build Systems - and What Remains To Be Done - Jan Altenberg, Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) eG

Tuesday September 17, 2024 14:55 - 15:35 CEST

Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

Building embedded Linux systems is getting increasingly complex. The complexity does not only come from the technical aspects. The number of different packages and dependencies also make the fulfilment of license obligations quite challenging. Build systems and distro generators support us with this task. They can help in getting an overview of the licenses being used and packaging the relevant compliance material. But how far does their support really go? And is the information being provided complete?

This presentation will take a look into different licensing obligations (e.g. information obligations and disclosure obligations) and (based on the examples of the Yocto project, ELBE and ISAR) the licensing support of modern build systems will be evaluated.

Speakers

Jan Altenberg

Director, Open Source Automation Development Lab (OSADL) eG

Jan Altenberg has more than 20 years of experience in developing and maintaining Embedded Linux systems. Jan studied information technologies at the University of Cooperative Education in Stuttgart (Germany). From 2002 - 2006 he was involved in the OCEAN project, a European research... Read More →

Tuesday September 17, 2024 14:55 - 15:35 CEST
Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Level Intermediate

16:00 CEST

Advanced System Profiling, Tracing and Trace Analysis with Perfetto in Android and Yocto - Anna-Lena Marx & Stefan Lengfeld, inovex GmbH

Tuesday September 17, 2024 16:00 - 16:40 CEST

Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

Tracing is a capable mechanism for deep system analysis and profiling with a minimal overhead. By recording defined system events, in Linux but also Android, tracing can be used to analyze concurrency or latency issues, for example. Android’s systrace tool made it easy to analyze and correlate traces and events due to a graphical UI, in order to help developers identify performance bottlenecks. The successor to this advanced and convenient tool is called Perfetto. It’s available for pure Linux too, and part of Yocto (meta-oe) since Langdale now. In the talk, we’ll have a look into - using Perfetto with Android and Yocto, - adding trace events to your applications, - recording traces and - analyzing system and application traces with the graphical GUI. This will allow you to take full advantage of the Perfetto trace viewer UI for analyzing memory usage, CPU scheduling, latency and more.

Speakers

Anna-Lena Marx

Senior Embedded Systems Engineer, inovex GmbH

Anna-Lena Marx has been working as an Embedded Systems Developer at inovex since 2015 and holds a Master's degree in Embedded Systems. As a hobby, she also studies Electrical Engineering. Professionally, Anna-Lena focuses on the development of Embedded Systems based on Yocto or the... Read More →

Stefan Lengfeld

Senior Embedded Systems Engineer, inovex GmbH

Stefan Lengfeld has been an Embedded Linux and Embedded Android developer at inovex since 2017. He is a Linux kernel contributor and has been professionally involved in all topics related to embedded software development since 2015. Even before that, he dove into the depths of Linux... Read More →

Tuesday September 17, 2024 16:00 - 16:40 CEST
Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Level Intermediate

16:55 CEST

Using Yocto to Debug Embedded Device Crashes - Etienne Cordonnier, Snap Inc

Tuesday September 17, 2024 16:55 - 17:35 CEST

Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

It is challenging to debug hard to reproduce crashes on embedded devices. Due to limited space constraints, it is often not feasible to deploy full debug symbols. Core dumps are a great tool to debug such crashes. The Yocto project offers several features to help with working with core dumps, such as minidebuginfo and debuginfod combined with debug symbol servers. Used with crash-monitoring software and systemd core dump tooling, those features make it easier for developers to analyze and solve crashes happening only e.g. in production.

Speakers

Etienne Cordonnier

Software Engineer, Snap Inc

Etienne Cordonnier is an embedded software developer who has worked on various Linux and FreeRTOS embedded products such as consumer audio products, smart-meters, as well as robotic devices. He likes to use and contribute to open-source projects, mostly the Yocto project. In his free... Read More →

Tuesday September 17, 2024 16:55 - 17:35 CEST
Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Level Intermediate

17:45 CEST

BoF: The Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded - Josef Holzmayr, Northern.tech as Mender.io & Philip Balister, OpenSDR

Tuesday September 17, 2024 17:45 - 18:15 CEST

Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

This BoF provides an open forum for the Embedded Linux community to ask questions and discuss issues with the Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded community. We open with a Yocto Project summary and OpenEmbedded State of the Union. All users, contributors and maintainers as well as curious minds are invited to bring their thoughts and topics.

Speakers

Philip Balister

Minister of Progress, OpenSDR

Josef Holzmayr

Head of Developer Relations, Northern.tech as Mender.io

Josef has been active for more than 15 years as a "Complete"-Stack developer for industrial controls by now. A passion for showing, telling, and teaching people in both entertaining and engaging ways led Josef to Mender.io. Here, he tries to make the world better and more secure by... Read More →

Tuesday September 17, 2024 17:45 - 18:15 CEST
Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

Embedded Linux Conference

Audience Level Any

11:00 CEST

Next-Gen Documentation with AI - Hema Veeradhi, Red Hat

Wednesday September 18, 2024 11:00 - 11:40 CEST

Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

In the realm of open source development, efficient and comprehensive documentation plays a pivotal role in facilitating collaboration, adoption, and innovation. However, creating high-quality documentation often proves time-consuming and labor-intensive for developers. In this session, we will explore the potential of using large language models (LLMs) in automating documentation creation, streamlining the documentation workflow and enhancing the overall developer experience. We will delve into the intricacies of integrating generative AI models into the documentation workflow, discussing key aspects such as open source tooling for model development, model selection and effective evaluation of the generated documentations. Attendees will gain insights into how generative AI can revolutionize the way documentation is created and maintained in open source projects, ultimately driving greater efficiency and productivity in software development workflows. This talk is a must for anyone looking to transform their documentation from a laborious manual process to an efficient automated one, ushering in a new generation of streamlined documentation workflows.

Speakers

Hema Veeradhi

Principal Data Scientist, Red Hat

Hema Veeradhi is a Principal Data Scientist working in the Emerging Technologies team part of the office of the CTO at Red Hat. Her work primarily focuses on implementing innovative open AI and machine learning solutions to help solve business and engineering problems. Hema is a staunch... Read More →

Wednesday September 18, 2024 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

TechDocsCon

Audience Level Beginner

11:55 CEST

Documentation Templates: A Helpful Aid or an Obstacle - Lana Novikova, JetBrains

Wednesday September 18, 2024 11:55 - 12:35 CEST

Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

Documentation templates serve as indispensable tools in the technical writing arsenal, offering a structured framework to streamline communication, ensure consistency, and distribute best practices. This talk delves into the intricate balance between harnessing the benefits of templates while navigating potential pitfalls, offering insights from my participation in The Good Docs project.

Speakers

Lana Novikova

Technical writer, JetBrains

Hello there! I’m Lana, a dedicated technical writer, docops enthusiast, and a specialist in knowledge management. Over the past 10 years, I’ve immersed myself in the world of documentation. My focus lies in crafting comprehensive documentation for developers, specializing in API... Read More →

Wednesday September 18, 2024 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

TechDocsCon

Audience Level Beginner

14:00 CEST

Tackling Language Barriers in Open Source Docs: A Case Study of openEuler's Globalization Efforts - Helen Liu, openEuler

Wednesday September 18, 2024 14:00 - 14:40 CEST

Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

In today's interconnected world, open source thrives on collaboration, yet language barriers in documentation impede knowledge exchange. As languages like Chinese and Japanese gain prominence, native speakers play increasingly vital roles. Yet, the lack of universal understanding necessitates a two-step localization process, from the source language to English and then to local languages. Amidst this backdrop, in OpenAtom openEuler, a pioneering project born in China which has been spearheading internationalization efforts, we initiated G11N SIG, an instrumental globalization group in tackling these challenges head-on. As a maintainer of G11N and a social media operator who is deeply attuned to localization challenges, I bring firsthand experience and expertise to the table. In this session, we'll embark on a comprehensive exploration of openEuler's journey, delving into successful strategies, encountered challenges, and the lessons learned in surmounting language barriers. We'll shed light on AI's assistance in localization efforts and the empowering potential of social media in enhancing accessibility.

Speakers

Helen Liu

G11N Maintainer and Social Media Operator, OpenAtom openEuler, openEuler

Helen Liu is recognized in the open source community for her role as the maintainer of openEuler's G11N SIG and adept social media management. With expertise in technical documentation translation, localization, and community engagement, she fosters collaboration within open source... Read More →

Wednesday September 18, 2024 14:00 - 14:40 CEST
Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

TechDocsCon

Audience Level Beginner

15:10 CEST

Learning by Example: Highlights from Google Season of Docs - Erin McKean, Google

Wednesday September 18, 2024 15:10 - 15:50 CEST

Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

The Google Season of Docs program gives direct grants to open source projects to hire technical writers. The technical writing projects supported by these grants are intended to solve real problems for open source project communities, and the case studies created by the projects are intended to help other open source projects learn how to conceptualize and create their own problem-solving open source documentation. In this talk, we'll walk through how projects participating in Google's Season of Docs program have framed their problems, hypothesized solutions, created documentation to solve those problems, and measured the success of their documentation.

Speakers

Erin McKean

Developer Relations Engineer, Google

Erin McKean does "docs advocacy" for Google's OSPO. She is the founder of the not-for-profit Wordnik.com. Before Wordnik, she was the editor-in-chief of American Dictionaries for Oxford University Press. In addition to writing code, blog posts, and documentation, she’s also the... Read More →

Wednesday September 18, 2024 15:10 - 15:50 CEST
Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

TechDocsCon

Audience Level Beginner

16:05 CEST

Online Hands-on Tech Docs, the Easy Way! - Jorge Morales Pou, Broadcom & Graham Dumpleton, VMware

Wednesday September 18, 2024 16:05 - 16:45 CEST

Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

Have you ever had the need to show a live version of what your technical documentation is presenting? Don't you agree that seeing things in action is the best way to convey your documentation goals? Have you ever had to deal with the complexity of the learners' heterogeneous environments? Or in other words, have the learners of your product wanted to learn how your project works but some have windows, some linux others mac, some constrained laptops, some don't have enough memory? For this problem online playgrounds for hands-on learning that help you deliver a hands-on experience via a web browser is the best way to go. But many of these do cost a lot of money, while this runs on containers on a simple Kubernetes cluster. In this workshop, we will demonstrate Educates, an open source hands-on workshop platform that can help you deliver hands-on learning experience as well as workshops and demos, in a very easy, reproducible and cost effective way. And we will be using an Educates workshop, which means Inception. This technology is the one used by VMware's Spring.Academy, Tanzu.Academy and Kube.Academy. I encourage you to spend this short time with us. It'll change your life.

Speakers

Jorge Morales Pou

Software engineer, Broadcom

Jorge is a Cloud Native Developer advocate at VMware working with Kubernetes platforms. He has huge experience in DevOps and he's a fanatical Java developer but never afraid of learning new languages. He’s been helping developers understand the benefits of Kubernetes based platforms... Read More →

Graham Dumpleton

Kubernetes Developer Advocate at VMware, VMware

Graham is an avid enthusiast of all things Kubernetes and containers, having worked with them from their original creation. He is also an active member of the Python software developer community, being the author of popular Python packages mod_wsgi and wrapt.

Wednesday September 18, 2024 16:05 - 16:45 CEST
Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)

TechDocsCon

Audience Level Beginner