Back from MontaVista Vision 2008

I'm back from MontaVista Vision 2008 Embedded Linux Developers Conference. It was the second Vision Conference and I think this time it was better than the last one.

It has been interesting 2.5 days in downtown San Francisco (even though I didn't have time to peek my nose out of the hotel). But there is almost nothing to report - it was good overall, but nothing too specific to single out.

I liked the remote debugging session by one of the MontaVista guys, where he demonstrated techniques to remotely access the EVM/test-board on the testbench over the serial/ppp/telnet, power it on/off, reboot and even monitor it with a network camera.

Another interesting moment happened to me when I suddenly became perceived as an OpenEmbedded Guru (which I'm not - I'm still learning), when we were discussing different approaches to system builds during one of the birds-of-a-feather sessions and I happened to have the most successful and in-depth experience with OE out of the whole audience. Mind you, it was a Corporate Conference, hence not many people from the community. Contrary to the Embedded Linux Conference, which I attended in April, where there were many people from the community, including the OpenEmbedded one.