Chris Simmonds
where else to find them
what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- NDC TechTown2 editions2019–2021
- foss-north2 editions2019–2020
- Open Source Summit Europe + Embedded Linux Conference Europe2 editions2017–2019
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on a stage with
- Gabriel Gautrononce
- Sabine Hofschenonce
who talks about the same things
- Michael Opdenacker13 talks
- Drew Moseley12 talks
- Bernhard Rosenkränzer18 talks
- Christopher Obbard6 talks
- Mirza Krak7 talks
- Sergio Prado9 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Open source and Android Automotive OS | droidcon Berlin 2025 | 2025-09-24 |
Android Automotive OS sits on AOSP but major pieces are closed: BSPs, VHALs, proprietary codecs and vendor drivers force OEMs to choose between licensing… | ||
| It's time to develop apps for Android cars | droidcon Berlin 2025 | 2025-09-24 |
Android Automotive is rolling into Volvo, Ford, GM, BMW, Honda and more and the claim is 70% by 2028; app stores (Appling by Forvia and others) already host… | ||
| The Embedded Android Developer's BoF | Open Source Summit Europe 2025 | 2025-08-25 |
Community hub covers ASPDevs.org Discord plus a newsletter, blogs and a GitHub-backed reference library that accepts pull requests. Practical issues: Android… | ||
| AOSP Developers Birds of a Feather | Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2024 | 2024-09-16 |
Interactive meetup focused on practical AOSP engineering: community-building around a hosted devsforAndroid device list, where vendors and maintainers report… | ||
| AOSP Developers Birds of a Feather | Open Source Summit Europe 2024 | 2024-09-16 |
A meetup for embedded Android developers focuses on concrete fixes: a community-curated registry of long‑supported dev boards (the devs for Android idea)… | ||
| Why can't my app open that file? A deep dive into the Android app sandbox | Droidcon London 2023 | 2023-10-26 |
Explains why apps get FileNotFound or SecurityException by showing Android’s sandbox is Linux DAC plus SE Linux MAC: every app gets an app UID per package… | ||
| The AOSP Build System | Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) @ EOSS 2023 | 2023-06-27 |
AOSP on Android 13 is a multi-stage build: Blueprint/Soong parses >8,000 Android.bp files and generates a ~5–10 GB build.ninja, Kati converts legacy android.mk… | ||
| The AOSP BOF Meeting | Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) @ EOSS 2023 | 2023-06-27 |
AOSP developers discuss concrete fixes and workflows: a bi‑monthly meetup with ~350 members and 30–35 attendees shares daily builds and manifests, recommends… | ||
| 20 Years Teaching Embedded Linux: Lessons I Learned from My Students | Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) @ EOSS 2023 | 2023-06-27 |
Starts teaching embedded Linux in 2002 using a 50 MHz MPC860 board 16 MB RAM 4 MB NOR flash and moves through toolchains and build systems: binary toolchains… | ||
| Exploring Android internals with ADB | droidcon London 2022 | 2022-10-27 |
ADB is three pieces (adbd, adb server, adb client) and the demo uses command‑line ADB, getprop, uname -a (device runs Android 13 on Linux 5.10)… | ||
| Being Systematic with systemd | Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2022 | 2022-09-14 |
Covers concrete systemd patterns for embedded builds: unit files (service/target/socket/timer), how socket and timer units trigger on-demand services, and how… | ||
| Yocto Project and Android – Compare and Contrast | Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference + OSPOCon 2021 | 2021-09-27 |
Compares Yocto and AOSP by concrete differences: Yocto uses BitBake and layered recipes and layers to build images and toolchains on demand and is already used… | ||
| How to write a really good board support package for Yocto Project | NDC TechTown 2021 | 2021-08-30 |
Practical checklist for a Yocto BSP: implement a dedicated meta layer with conf/machine/.conf, set machine via local.conf, and limit content to hardware… | ||
| An Introduction to Android Automotive OS | NDC TechTown 2021 | 2021-08-30 |
Android Automotive OS ships in production cars like Polestar 2 and is available from AOSP but the open build is not production ready — default home and apps… | ||
| Running Android on the Raspberry Pi | foss-north 2020 | 2020-03-22 |
Raspberry Pi 3 runs Android well enough for demos but not production: quad‑core Cortex‑A53 1.4GHz with 1GB RAM is demo quality only. Building AOSP takes 1–5… | ||
| Debian or Yocto Project? Which is the best for your Embedded Linux project? | foss-north 2020 | 2020-03-22 |
Comparison shows Debian boots fastest for proofs of concept and single-board use, using apt and prebuilt .deb packages and allowing on-device compilation but… | ||
| We Need to Talk About Systemd: Boot Time Optimization for the New init daemon | Open Source Summit Europe + Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2019 | 2019-10-28 |
Systemd defaults often lengthen boots because unused units and unnecessary ordering hold the critical path; diagnosing with systemd-analyze critical-chain and… | ||
| Debian or Yocto Project? Which is the Best for your Embedded Linux Project? | Open Source Summit Europe + Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2019 | 2019-10-28 |
Debian yields fast proofs of concept using off‑the‑shelf images for Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone, but teams end up cloning a fragile golden master that is hard… | ||
| How did Linux become a mainstream embedded operating system? | NDC TechTown 2019 | 2019-09-02 |
Linux shrinks and ports: early wins are a few-hundred-kilobyte busybox, MTD drivers plus JFFS/JFFS2 for flash, and ubiquitous u-boot bootloaders, which let… | ||
| Building Android for the Raspberry Pi | Android Makers 2019 | 2019-04-23 |
Builds Android Pie from AOSP for a Raspberry Pi 3 and produces bootable images written to a microSD card, using a Consta/Lineage kernel and a board support… | ||
| Reducing the boot time of Linux devices | foss-north 2019 | 2019-04-07 |
A BeagleBone Black image boots from about 11.76s to 2.61s by applying measured changes: use grabserial, bootchart and bootgraph to find delays; start the GUI… | ||
| How to Avoid Writing Device Drivers for Embedded Linux | Open Source Summit Europe & ELC + OpenIoT Summit Europe 2018 | 2018-10-22 |
Explains how to avoid kernel drivers by using concrete user‑space interfaces: GPIO sysfs export (write numbers to export, read/write value, set edge and poll… | ||
| A Pragmatic Guide to Boot-Time Optimization | Open Source Summit Europe + Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2017 | 2017-10-23 |
A practical, measured route from a 11.76s BeagleBone Yocto+systemd boot to ~2.8s by changing userland order, kernel and u-boot behavior: capture timestamps… | ||
| Read-only rootfs: Theory and Practice | Embedded Linux Conference + OpenIoT Summit Europe 2016 | 2016-10-11 |
Argues that a read-only rootfs plus separate nonvolatile user-data and tmpfs volatile areas reduces flash wear, avoids filesystem corruption and simplifies… | ||
| Software Update for IoT: The Current State of Play | Embedded Linux Conference + OpenIoT Summit Europe 2016 | 2016-10-11 |
A Mirai 600 Gbps DDoS motivates secure update paths and the claim that package updates are not atomic so embedded updates use image-based strategies instead… | ||
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