Opening new doors:KDE in embeddedAutomotive

Agustin Benito BethencourtPrincipal Consultant

Codethink Ltd

Akademy-ES 2017Almeria 20 de JulioLicense: CC BY-SA

Automotive?

● Open Source revolution: automotive going through a

disruptive transformation process. Déjà vu.

● There is an opportunity window to hit first, so hit twice.

● There are open collaborative ecosystems where we

can contribute: Automotive Grade Linux & GENIVI

Alliance.

¿Por qué automoción? En resumen...

● ... full of potential investors into KDE:○ AGL members.

○ GENIVI Alliance members.

● Qt as main player but experiencing resistance to the

new licensing model. We can/should help.

● These open ecosystems working as learning

environments in FLOSS.

● Our nature, values and goals match theirs.

Why automotive? In summary...

… kick some butts and...

But specially because we can ...

Thanks.

… and think about it.!

● AGL (Linux Foundation initiative): ● Use Yocto. Based on Poky.

● Distros: AGL UCB, AGL demo and SDK.

● GENIVI Alliance:● Use Yocto. Based en Poky.

● Distros: Baseline y GDP. Automotive middleware components.

● Shared IRC in freenode: #automotive

Automotive open collaborative environments

whoami: @toscalix

● Principal Consultant - FOSS at Codethink Ltd

● Currently focused on:

○ Consulting on automotive.

○ Represent Codethink at the L.F. (CIP & AGL) & GENIVI (2015 - 2016).

● KDE guy. KDE eV and KDE Spain member.

● Interested? Really? Visit: http://www.toscalix.com