Working Group Water Cooler 191025

Working Group Water Cooler Questions

Name and Role in the Working Group

Embedded Systems Working Group

What is the primary goal of the working group? Describe in reference to the community benefits.

Our primary goal is to unify the efforts of the embedded systems projects in our community and to promote the BEAM languages and the Erlang VM as mature and viable technologies for building IoT and embedded projects.

How does the group determine what to focus on? Is there a way for the community to collaborate?

We meet every two weeks to discuss ongoing and new projects and post minutes at https://github.com/erlef/embedded-systems-wg/wiki. Our members are active in the Nerves and GRiSP communities so if you would like to collaborate, please reach out to one of us.

What is the group currently focused on? Are there initiatives planned?

While makers and hobbyists share their embedded Erlang and Elixir projects, many interesting industrial projects ship quietly under the radar. We're often asked where Erlang and Elixir are used, so we'd like to highlight these success stories in a central location. Our first project is to jointly create this project.

Have long term initiatives been discussed? Describe based on priority and benefit.

We have a number of development projects that we've discussed. We're initially looking at ones that benefit both embedded systems and the greater community such as faster Erlang VM startup.

How can the community help in supporting the group? Are there projects that need contributes or collaborators?

If you have deployed Erlang and Elixir in an commercial or industrial embedded system, please let us know.

What is the best way for the community to stay informed on the working group's initiatives?

Watch our GitHub repository at https://github.com/erlef/embedded-systems-wg for updates. We post summaries of all of our work and meetings there.