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 ====== Current Version of Weekly AGL Developer Newsletter ======
-==== March 29, 2019 ====
+==== April 12, 2019 ====
-Europe is changing to summer time this weekend so all meetings in Europe will be one hour later starting Monday. Welcome to issue number twenty-three of the weekly AGL newsletter highlighting work going on around the AGL Community. Feedback and comments are welcome. wminer_at_linuxfoundation.org
+Welcome to issue number twenty-five of the weekly AGL newsletter highlighting work going on around the AGL Community. You can also find the latest issue and back issues on our wiki page.  https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/newsletter
+Feedback and comments are welcome.   wminer@linuxfoundation.org
 Regards,\\
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 ==== Highlights ====
+)	In case you missed the big announcement, Volkswagen has joined AGL!  https://www.automotivelinux.org/announcements/2019/04/08/volkswagen-joins-agl
-)	Funky Flounder patch release 6.0.5 was released this week. Release notes can be found here. https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/agl-distro/release-notes#flounder_605
+)	Speaking of the new documentation site, we need some help with HTML5, CSS, and such to improve its look and feel. If you have expertise in these areas and want to help out check out JIRA issues [[https://jira.automotivelinux.org/browse/SPEC-2317| SPEC-2317]], [[https://jira.automotivelinux.org/browse/SPEC-2318 | SPEC-2318]], and [[https://jira.automotivelinux.org/browse/SPEC-2319 | SPEC-2319]]. Please contact me if you can help us out. We will be looking for more redesign of the overall look and feel of the site as well.
-)	The Instrument Cluster Expert Group needs OEM and Tier One members to join the group so we can gather requirements for this project. Contact me or join the next expert group meeting if you want to contribute. https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/eg-ic
+)	The hardware specification being written by the Reference Hardware System Architecture EG will be released to the System Architecture Team in two weeks for review and approval. This should lead to a 2-DIN hardware prototype that can be purchased by AGL Members. A draft version of the spec can be found here for review and early comments. https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/_media/egrhsa/agl_referencehardwarespec_v0.2.0draft.pdf
-)	Monday’s Graphics and UI Expert Group call will review this update (https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/_media/2019-03-28_-_agl_sat_-_window_manager_replacement.pdf) from Daniel Stone on the window manager and compositor re-architecture. Please take a moment to review it before hand and come ready with questions and comments. There are a number of open requirements and timeline questions starting on slide 20 that need to be resolved.
+)	Our next F2F meeting will be held at Igalia’s office in Coruna, Spain on May 7 – 9.  Sign up on the wiki if you plan to make it. A lot of important topics are on the agenda. https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/agl-distro/may2019-f2f
-)	The deadline to submit a CFP for Automotive Linux summit is now Sunday, April 7. https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/automotive-linux-summit-2019/program/cfp/ When you make your travel plans to attend Automotive Linux Summit in July, remember that we will hold a F2F SAT and Expert Group meeting the day before ALS begins. Sign up at https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/agl-distro/jul2019-f2f
+)	When you make your travel plans to attend Automotive Linux Summit, remember that we will hold a Face-to-Face SAT and Expert Group meeting on July 16 the day before ALS begins. Sign up at https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/agl-distro/jul2019-f2f
-)	Our next F2F meeting will be held at Igalia’s office in Coruna, Spain on May 7 – 9.  Sign up on the wiki if you plan to make it. A lot of important topics are on the agenda. https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/agl-distro/may2019-f2f
+)	The uprev to Yocto 2.6 (thud) was merged to master this week. Expect some instabilities on master as some issues still need to be resolved. The guppy patch release (7.0.1) is still held up by some regressions found in our pre-release testing. A new version is being spun today for testing before Tuesday’s developer call.
-)	The patch release for guppy (7.0.1) should be released after Tuesday’s developer call. We will also be making a decision on merging the uprev to Yocto 2.6 (thud branch) onto master during Tuesday’s call.
+)	Once you have finished the newsletter, take a second to vote in my twitter poll.  https://twitter.com/VStarWalt/status/1116654184382726145
 ==== This week’s meetings:====
-=== Monday ===
+===Monday===
 :00 UTC – [[:eg-ui-graphics#weekly_call|Graphics and UI Expert Group]]
-=== Tuesday ===
+===Tuesday===
 :00 pm UTC – [[eg-ciat:meetings|Continuous Integration and Automated Test Expert Group]]
 :00 UTC - [[:dev-call-info|Weekly developer call]]\\
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 ===Thursday===
 :00 UTC - [[eg-connectivity:meetings|Connectivity Expert Group]]
 The full AGL calendar can always be found at https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=linuxfoundation.org_i0rs8amkm0flde7kq5u4b9tef4%40group.calendar.google.com

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