OpenBMC Learning Series

[krtaylor]

On 6/3/20 1:10 PM, Sai Dasari wrote:
> Team,
> 
> Our OpenBMC community continues to grow at rapid pace as can be observed 
> by various metrics like number of CCLAs, industry adoption rate, 
> design/code contributions, numerous technical conversations over Mailing 
> List/IRC/Gerritt, and more. Because of this rapid growth the project 
> might appear to be a bit complex for a new contributor evaluating our 
> stack. I believe there are multiple ongoing efforts of reducing this 
> barrier for a potential contributor to ramp them up quickly on this 
> stack that includes documentation, wiki pages, tutorials in our github repo.
> 
> In addition to these ongoing efforts, I propose to start a video based 
> learning series that aims to introduce OpenBMC stack for a potential 
> contributor.  I hope such video series will help disseminate tribal 
> knowledge that we built in this community over a period of time and ramp 
> up the new contributors quickly. To make this series useful, I seek

Thanks Sai!

I think this is a great idea. Feel free to reference the Community Best 
Practices video series I recorded - available here:

https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/wiki/Presentations

Kurt Taylor (krtaylor)

> volunteer speakers who are interesting in sharing their expertise and 
> help plan this series to be more effective. For those of you who are 
> interested, please add yourself as speaker with title/description before 
> 6/17 @ 
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RRO5cgutKE7zRPcjcFjrNn-GI5AYoW0FivEZJe_EyWs/edit?usp=sharing
> 
> Some topics for consideration include OpenBMC project overview, Software 
> stack architecture, community developer guidelines, Repo structure and 
> guidelines, Usage of Yocto in OpenBMC,  Usage of D-Bus in OpenBMC, C++ 
> coding standards in OpenBMC,  IPMI sub-system, Redfish sub-system, Using 
> QEMU effectively, Sensor sub-system, Best practices in debugging, 
> Logging, metrics/telemetry etc. And this is not an exhaustive list and 
> feel free to add any topic that you plan to share with community.
> 
> I will reach out to volunteer speakers and facilitate logistics and 
> update the ML with next steps. Please let me know for any info regarding 
> this effort.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sai.
>