Resource: LCA13 Name: Introduction to Linaro Date: 04-03-2013 Speaker: Mike Levine

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Introduction to Linaro
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! Announced in Taipai, Taiwan, Jun 02, 2010 at Computex
! ARM, Freescale, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments
have created the not-for-profit company, Linaro, committed to
providing new resources and industry alignment for open source
software developers using Linux on the world's most sophisticated
semiconductor System-on-Chips (SoCs).
! Just 32 months ago!
! From Computex Press Release:
! Stated 25 people (Consultants, assignees and employees)
! The whole effort seems to be aimed at getting Linux software builds and
new smartphones together, faster, via middleware.
! Linaro aligns the expertise of industry-leading electronics companies to
accelerate innovation among Linux developers on the most advanced
semiconductor SoCs (System-on-Chip).
! Tomorrow is the 3 year anniversary since the company name was
registered: Linaro Limited was registered on 05 Mar 2010 with its
registered office in Cambridge.
Facts about Linaro:

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Growth of Linaro
! Left chart is data from 9-6-2011 (17 months ago)
! Right chart is data from 3-8-2012 (One year ago)
! We increased from 119 people to 132 people

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One year later – Currently at Linaro
! 154 people involved in Linaro
! 144% increase in Linaro direct hires
! 16% increase in total company (22 people)
! 5 people with job offers currently (4 of 5) have accepted
but not started yet
! (puts us at 71 people after the Connect week)
77
66
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Linaro Assignees
Direct Hires Linaro
Consultants

5. Number of Linaro people per country:
France 11, Finland 3, Germany 4, Italy 2, Latvia 1,
Luxembourg 1, Poland 1, Russia 2, Serbia 2 ,Sweden 4, Switzerland 1, UK 25, Ukraine 1
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UK

6. Number of Linaro people per country:
Australia 2, New Zealand 1
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7. Number of Linaro people per country:
China 16, India 33, Japan 1, Korea 4, Pakistan 2, Taiwan 1
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8. Number of Linaro people per country:
Brazil 1, Canada 6, USA 27
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Goal is to exceed member expectations!
! Our basic value is we share the investment that members are making and work on
common problems for all our members together..
! Any company that has a license for ARM Cortex-A series processor and running
open source software will benefit from joining Linaro.
! Key benefit to Linaro is we are not judged on how much money we make. We are
measured by the value we bring to our members.
! Members get to be part of our technical steering committee guiding what we work
on.
! Key result is not every member is needing to build their own version of the kernel.
Together our members can lead open source development on ARM.
! Goal of Linaro is to work together to build the core platform one time
and share the cost with our members. Thus this reduces the cost of member
companies individually. They get their products to the consumers faster and with
higher quality.
! Benefit of joining Linaro is lower engineering costs and to shorten the time to the
market.
! Linaro helps get new technology from ARM into the open source world.
! We can help get all of ARM's technology out to members and partners.

10. Key public sites/pages for
excellent info on Linaro
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• December 2012 Introductory Linaro PDF
• Meet Linaro's team
• Linaro's Engineering page
• Linaro's LEG Group
• Planet Linaro
• Linaro Facebook page
• Linaro's LinkedIn page
• Linaro's blog
• Linaro's developer wiki
• Linaro's Career page
• Linaro Connects main page
• Linaro's download page/
Questions about Linaro or this presentation?
Please go to: Linaro's contact us page

11. More about Linaro Connect: www.linaro.org/connect/
More about Linaro: www.linaro.org/about/
More about Linaro engineering: www.linaro.org/engineering/
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