Chinese version

--- From "Driver Distraction" to "Driver Empowerment and Augmentation" using Open Source ---

Press

• "Driving cars into the future with Linux", interview in opensource.com with freedeb, May 23, 2016
• LWN coverage of Southern California Linux Expo 14x talk on "Automotive Linux, Cybersecurity and Transparency"
• Ten seconds of fame discussing cybersecurity of automobiles on National Public Radio's Marketplace business program
• Interviewed by Richard Smedley in Linux Format 187.
• Interviewed by Andrew Smith The Manchester Guardian, although I only saw the piece reprinted in Business Insider
• Interviewed in Yahoo Finance article
• Elecia White interview about automotive software development on her Making Embedded Systems podcast
• Free as in Freedom oggcast episode 0x40, an interview about "Free Software in Cars"
• Interviewed on Xinhua News Agency's CNC World program; follow-up article (in Chinese)
• Mike Linksvayer's summary of LibrePlanet 2012 includes a capsule review of "the most important talk of the conference"
• Nate Willis' fine LWN article about my SCALE presentation.
• Quoted at end of John Boudreau's "Coming soon to freeways: Drivers tweeting at 70 miles an hour"
• On Happy the Clown show on local Philadelphia television in 1965 for my third birthday; probably talked about automotive Linux and autonomous vehicles

Presentations

• Southern California Linux Expo presentation on "Linux: the First Second", presented March 3, 2017, slides as PDF and ODP and video
• Embedded Linux Conference Europe presentation on "IRQs: the Hard, the Soft, the Threaded and the Preemptible", Tues. Oct 11, 2016, slides as PDF, ODP and PPT, plus example code and video
• Introductory slides for Connected and Charged Symposium Modelling, Simulation and Testing Panel discussion as PDF and LibreOffice Presentation, May 25, 2016
• "Automotive Linux, Cybersecurity and Transparency", presented Jan 22, 2016 at the Southern California Linux Expo, more or less final draft as PDF, PPT, ODP
• "Systemd: the modern Linux service and resource manager", presentation at Automotive Grade Linux Member Meeting, Santa Clara CA, September 8, 2015, (PDF, ODP, embedded SVG bootchart)
• "Systemd: the modern init system you will learn to love" presentation on May 18, 2015 at LUGOD: pdf, ppt, odp
• "Tuning systemd for embedded", presentation at Embedded Linux Conference 2015, draft of slides as PDF, ODF (LibreOffice) format, Powerpoint plus auxiliary files used for demos
• "Systemd for developers", presentation at Southern California Linux Expo, Feb. 19-22 2015, draft of slides as PDF, Open Document and as PPT, with auxiliary files tarball. Video available at SCALE YouTube channel. Duration is about one hour, starting 10 minutes from the beginning of the YouTube clip.
• "Developing Automotive Linux" talk at Google Developer Group Silicon Valley in PDF, ODP, and PPT, February 4, 2015
• "Systemd: the modern init system you will learn to love" presentation on January 7, 2015 at Silicon Valley Linux Technology meetup.com group, slides as PDF, Powerpoint and LibreOffice ODP with brief screen capture of socket-based activation demo and tarball of screen capture and associated files for kiosk demo. (View screen captures with VLC.) Video of presentation.
• Slides from the "Technology, Business and Regulation of Connected Car" Google Hangout of Dec 11, 2013 in PDF, LibreOffice and PPT formats. Links in PDF document are broken.
• Automotive Linux Summit presentation on "The 'Telematics Horizon': V2V and V2I Networking": ODP (LibreOffice), PDF
• Embedded Linux Conference Europe presentation on "Best practices for long-term support and security of the device-tree": ODP (LibreOffice), PDF
• North Bay Linux Users Group July 2013 presentation on Developing Automotive Linux (PDF) (and ODP)
• "Linux Takes on the Hard Problems of Automotive" Google Hangout on in PDF and LibreOffice formats
• LibrePlanet 2013 talk on "Automotive Free Software 2013: Right to Repair and Privacy" in PDF and LibreOffice formats
• Embedded Linux Conference 2013 presentation,"Addressing the hard problems of automotive Linux: networking and IPC" as PDF and in LibreOffice format; video courtesy Free Electrons
• Automotive Linux Summit talk "Tier X and the Coming of the Whitebox Car", Sept 19 2012, slides as PDF and LibreOffice format
• Content for Maker Faire Booth about Silicon Valley Automotive Open Source group
• "From Driver Distraction to Driver Augmentation: Open Source in Cars," slides as PDF and LibreOffice ODP, presented at the 7th Annual Maker Faire Bay Area, May 19-20 2012 at the San Mateo County Expo Center
• "Automotive Open Source: Opportunity and Peril" as PDF and LibreOffice ODP
• Los Angeles Automotive Open Source Group talk on "The Next Frontier: Open Source in the Car" on April 11, 2012: draft slides as LibreOffice ODP and PDF
• LibrePlanet talk on "Why Cars need Free Software", March 24, 2012; slides in LibreOffice ODP and PDF formats
• Embedded Linux Conference February 2012 demo room poster in LibreOffice ODP and PDF format
• Southern California Linux Expo Jan 21, 2012 talk on Automotive: the Next Frontier for Mobile Linux: Booth content; presentation slides as PDF and LibreOffice ODP; LWN article and interview.
• Dec 6, 2011 talk on "Next-Generation In-Vehicle Software Opportunities" as PDF and LibreOffice ODP
• Silicon Valley Automotive Open Source Meetup Group Nov, 2011 talk on "Automotive: The next hot mobile platform for Linux" as PDF and LibreOffice ODP
• Code Camp, Oct 9, 2011 talk on on "Automotive: The next hot mobile platform for Linux" as pdf and odp
• Silicon Valley Linux Users Group, Oct 5, 2011 talk on on "Automotive: The next hot mobile platform for Linux" as pdf and odp
• North Bay Linux Users Group Sept. 13 talk on "Automotive: The next hot mobile platform for Linux" as pdf and odp
• SF Bay MeeGo Network talk on "Automotive: The next platform for MeeGo" as pdf and odp
• SHDH 46 lightning talk, September 3, 2011, "Automotive: the next Hot Mobile Platform": pdf and odp
• Slides from "Rapid prototyping with open source" seminar presented at MIT Lincoln Lab on 7/14/2011
• Slides from Spring 2011 MeeGo Conference about MeeGo on Development Boards in PDF and LibreOffice formats
• "Birds of a Feather" presentation about the Future of MeeGo (LibreOffice, PDF) from Embedded Linux Conference 2011

LISA15 Tutorial Materials about systemd

• slides as ODP, PDF and PPT for Nov. 9, 2015 class
• Tutorial preview at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, CA, to be offered Nov. 1, 2015
• Debian (122 MB) and Fedora (234 MB) containers for use with exercises
• How to set up the testing environment for the exercises

Clients

• Sensity
• Enlighted
• Caralta
• Edmunds
• Tizen-IVI
• Open Mobile World Wide

Resume

Organization

The Silicon Valley Automotive Open Source Group is a free, non-commercial network aimed at facilitating communication between software developers, car manufacturers, small businesses, system integrators and hobbyists.

Tips and tricks

• How to enable convenient access to a second-language keymap with Debian-KDE
• How to back up Debian hosts with Bacula enterprise backup system running on a FreeNAS Mini inside a FreeBSD jail
• How to create a Debian container in which to test systemd (or anything else, with right packages), or violate rules of common sense by brute-forcing installation of a Fedora one
• instructions on how to connect a laptop to a target board via console and Ethernet
• Installing and running guest operating systems in Qemu
• busy-buses, the beginning of a tiny project to fake enumerability for ARM's non-enumerable buses
• The Tizen-IVI build and source-code management instructions are admirably complete, but needed lots of workarounds for Debian Testing.
• makedts, a bash script that runs the C preprocessor and device-tree compiler dtc on a device-tree source file and produces human-readable output with ASCII strings
• a bash script that installs a recent SystemRescueCD to a USB stick, and addresses the two most common reasons SystemRescueCD installation fails
• Controller-Area Network (CAN) protocol implementations in modern vehicles: a case study of my much-examined 2005 Mazda 3 hatchback
• Instructions for running Ubuntu-IVI Remix on an ExoPC Atom Slate and in a Qemu VM
• Some notes on getting the HDMI out working on the ExoPC Vibe with MeeGo-IVI, Ubuntu 11.10 and kernel 3.0.0.
• MeeGo IVI (automotive Linux) running on the Atom-based ExoPC slate
• Some handy info on Gumstix Overo expansion boards
• How to induce your Fedora user process to drop core for debugging purposes
• Running PCBSD and MeeGo under qemu-kvm and qemu-gl

Projects

• The OpenICE suite of automotive middleware includes nOBDy, libobd and obdref. OpenICE tools have as their purpose to empower drivers and developers to make more creative use of vehicle data. Deb packages are available from Launchpad for Debian and Ubuntu, with RPMs coming soon.
• Work on MeeGo at Nokia: hardware-accelerated graphics on Pandaboard, ExoPC, WeTab, crude data mining
• Embedded Linux Decision Tree (rough sketch; download and improve!)
• GNU/Linux vs. Android 2.x Graphics Stacks (very rough sketch; download and improve!) Abandoned in favor of superior 0xlab diagrams.

Automotive Bookshelf

• review of Asphalt Nation by Jane Holtz Kay
• review of American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company
• review of Nanovation: How a Little Car Can Teach the World to Think Big and Act Bold by Kevin and Jackie Freiberg and Dain Dunston
• review of Against All Odds: the Story of the Toyota Motor Corporation and the Family that Created It by Yukiyasu Togo and William Wartman
• review of Ingenious: a True Story of Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America by Jason Fagone
• review of Designated Drivers: How China plans to dominate the global auto industry by G.E. Anderson, PhD
• review of American Wheels, Chinese Roads by Michael J. Dunne
• review of Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century by William J. Mitchell, Christopher E. Borroni-Bird, and Lawrence D. Burns
• review of Automotive Internetworking by Timo Kosch, Christoph Schroth, Markus Strassberger and Marc Bechler
• review of Car Guys vs. Bean Counter: The Battle for the Soul of American Business
  by Bob Lutz and Shift: Inside Nissan's Historic Revival by Carlos Ghosn and Philippe Riès
• reviews of Controller Area Network Projects by Dogan Ibrahim and Understanding and Using the Controller Area Network Communication Protocol: Theory and Practice by Marco di Natale, Haibo Zeng, Paolo Guisto and Arkadeb Ghosal
• review of The Ultimate History of BMW by Andrew Noakes
• review of Attack of the Drones: A History of Unmanned Aerial Combat by Bill Yenne

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