oshug May 2017

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OSHUG 58 — Getting started with NetBSD on embedded platforms Pt. 2, Thursday 18th May.
by Andrew Back 09 May '17

09 May '17

Hello, Registration is now open for the fifty-eighth meeting, which will provide a hands-on introduction to NetBSD on embedded platforms, picking up where the workshop left off at the previous meeting in April. Cheers, Andrew // Event #58 — Getting started with NetBSD on embedded platforms Pt. 2 On the 18 May 2017, 17:30 - 20:00 at BCS London, 1st Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA. Registration: http://oshug.org/event/58 — Workshop scope Following on from the previous workshop, we will be continuing with the theme of NetBSD on embedded platforms. This time covering GPIO access with lua and rapid development with Rump kernel, which we did not get to in the previous workshop due to the lack of time. If you did not get to attend the previous workshop, not to worry, notes are available [1] and assistance will be provided on the day. [1] http://oshug.org/pipermail/oshug/2017-April/000608.html — Participant requirements You will need to bring: * Your own laptop (running Windows, Linux or Mac OS X); * A Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone Black; * An appropriate SD card for your board; * USB card reader to write a new OS image onto said SD card; * An ethernet cable to connect board to laptop and/or a USB UART/FTDI adapter to access the board via the serial console. — Windows 10 users Install Windows Subsystem for Linux. — Windows 10 / Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) users Install the following packages: * build-essential * zlib1g-dev * flex * libc6-dev-i386 — Mac OS X users Install GCC or clang via Xcode or command line tools. — All Everyone should fetch the source code for NetBSD: Download all source archives (.tgz files) from http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/201704270800Z/source/sets/ . (It is likely the above URL will become invalid as old builds are purged and new ones are generated. Substitute 201704270800Z with the most recent release available on http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD). Any questions should be directed to the discussion list. — Hosted by Sevan Janiyan is founder of Venture 37, which provides system administration & consultancy services. As a fan of operating systems and computers with different CPU architectures, in his spare time he maintains builds of open source software on a variety of systems featuring PowerPC, SPARC and armv7l CPUs. He hopes to own a NeXTcube & OMRON LUNA-88K2 one day. Note: Please aim to arrive by 17:15 as the workshop will start at 17:30 prompt. -- Andrew Back http://abopen.com

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pkgsrcCon 2017 - Call for talk proposals
by Sevan Janiyan 05 May '17

05 May '17

Hi all, Apologies for the software related post. This summer the pkgsrc[1] project is holding its annual developer conference in London at the British Computer Society in association with the Open Source Specialist Group[2] on Saturday the 1st of July and a hack day at the London Hack Space[3] on Sunday the 2nd of July. While the conference is primarily about pkgsrc, it's on the topic of building & packaging open source software in general. I'm currently contacting different communities to raise awareness of the event & to ask folks to submit talks on such topics if they are interested. There will be a formal announcement for attendees soon (it's free & open to all) but in the meantime, if you would like to give a talk on the subject of building or packaging open source software (the more technical the better) please send your submission to sevan(a)NetBSD.org (including a title, abstract and a short bio in the submission (for the website)). For those not familiar with pkgsrc, it's a cross platform packaging system by the NetBSD project, originally forked from FreeBSD ports but with a portability twist added to cover a diverse range of operating systems. It enables you to have such things as the same version of software built with matching set of patches across a wide range of operating systems and to use the same workflow on said operating systems. At OSHUG #55 - "FPGA projects past, planned and possible", the framework I was demonstrating in the "Deploying your FPGA toolchain consistently regardless of your development environment" talk was pkgsrc. Regards, Sevan [1] http://pkgsrc.org [2] http://ossg.bcs.org/ [3] https://london.hackspace.org.uk

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