The document discusses the transformative impact of open source in the automotive industry, highlighting opportunities for collaboration through initiatives like Automotive Grade Linux and the GENIVI Alliance. It emphasizes the role of KDE and its members as potential contributors within these ecosystems and invites engagement in this evolving sector. The presentation also covers the current status of relevant distributions and middleware components, encouraging involvement in automotive open collaborative environments.

1. Opening new doors:
KDE in embedded
Automotive
Agustin Benito Bethencourt
Principal Consultant
Codethink Ltd
Akademy-ES 2017
Almeria 20 de Julio
License: CC BY-SA

6. Automotive?

7. ● 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...

8. ● ... 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...

9. … kick some butts and...
But specially because we can ...

11. Thanks.
… and think about it.!

12. ● 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

13. 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