Our Company and the Open Source Community - A Journey from Anxiety to Collaboration

Explore a company's journey from open source novice to active participant in this conference talk. Discover how GARDENA, a gardening tools company, transformed its approach to software development and community interaction. Follow their path from GPL misunderstandings to releasing source code on GitHub, upstreaming MT7688 SoC support in U-Boot, and allowing root access for hackers. Gain insights into GARDENA's Sub-GHz IoT gateway, based on the MediaTek MT7688 SoC, Yocto framework, and U-Boot bootloader. Learn about the challenges faced, including court rulings and certification issues, and understand the current state of GARDENA's open source involvement. Delve into topics such as open hardware, mainlining, and the company's smart system project background.