 Hi, please introduce yourself. So I'm Andy Woffa, I'm the chair of the Octo project and we're here at Embedded World 2023 and it's been crazy busy which has been great to see. People queuing up pretty much to speak with you. Yeah absolutely. So the Octo project's quite common in the embedded space and actually this is our first year coming to the event and we've been overwhelmed by technical questions, by commercial questions, people wanting to get started, people walking by and saying thanks very much for all the work so it's really good to see. Are you able to answer all the most technical questions? No, some of it has been pushing my knowledge and experience which it's fun, nice to see, but I'm there on Slack and ISE asking much more knowledgeable people. How do I answer this question? When I walk around the Embedded World everybody says the word Octo. It's like it's all over the place right? Yeah, it's a lot of it in the Embedded World. Absolutely, I mean Octo is a platform to build a custom Linux operating system and it's used from small home automation devices right the way up through to hyperscaling clouds and satellites and you know so it is literally from earth to space. And it says number one platform to validate new SOC designs. Yep, absolutely. So thanks to Octo's modular capabilities it's very quick and easy to get an operating system up and running on new hardware and absolutely it's one of the best tools for the trade. And ISE your badge has an ARM logo, fully supported on everything you can think of out there? I'll never say 100% but a large number of ARM based platforms are supported. We have a huge number of ARM ecosystem partners that are actually members of the Octo project. ARM themselves are a partner member of the Octo project and we use it heavily and so yeah it's well supported. What goes into being a member? Do they have to upstream everything to contribute? Do they get roles? So there is a financial element to becoming a member but you know we're open to ecosystem partners etc. But yeah members have the opportunity to steer direction of the project, have a say in what does doesn't happen, what they'd like to see happen, what events they want to see the Octo project at etc. And so you know it's not a pay-to-play far from it you know if you want to contribute code please do nothing stop me if you want to participate you want to advocate please do and so yeah it's all good. All the members agree where it needs to go? For the most part it it's nice to have some pushback from our membership every so often and just to make sure we're kept honest you know they make us think long and hard make sure that we're doing the best for our membership and the project and that's important it's no point just wasting money in time and effort if it's not going to be a benefit to people. So what's coming next what's the big thing that where's it going? World domination you know as I mentioned we you know the Octo project is already deployed in satellites it's deployed in the Mars rover it's deployed in aircraft and sailing vessels trains machinery you name it right and telecommunications equipment the whole nine yards so I think next step is making sure that security is as good as it can be you know working with members and partners on how to improve the security aspect of things we already by default provide software building materials in the builds so we're compliant with legislation coming out of the White House and out in the EU and so yeah it's iterative improvements. And we talk about all these 5G base stations out there on part some of them and everything is it where it goes or it goes to the tiny little smallest Linux devices. Yes to all of that right so absolutely in you know 5G telco base stations and other constrained devices the automotive industry is a large consumer and contributed to the Octo project and so you know we've got members like BMW automotive grade Linux and so you know that there's a large number of vehicles running the Octo currently at the moment I believe if you bar if you have an i-series BMW you're running the Octo in your car and that's just one of many and so yeah we are quite well supported in the industry now. One thing that's cool about Linux and devices that it keeps getting better the device doesn't get worse. Correct there are there's always improvements it's always moving forward always moving upwards some people say that Linux is getting a bit big bit heavy the advantage of using the Octo to build your Linux is that you're building just enough for what you need. So you pick and choose it's like a buffet you take what you want and then for the most part you you build only what you want rather than taking a traditional Linux distribution and ripping pieces out this you're actually just from the start building only just enough. Nice that's awesome all right thanks a lot. No worries, you take care.