Embedded Linux developers meet for a Yocto project summit

I'm just getting into embedded development and know very little about Yocto and how it came to be. However, I wonder if this project can somehow help other embedded distributions like Buildroot or OpenWrt?

I appreciated Andy Green's comments [1] on the FOSDEM talks on cross-build systems [2,3]. It seems like a large effort sink for these distros is private patches against upstream. send-patches.org was to provide a common location for these patches, but it looks like not much is going on. Perhaps Yocto can help with this situation.

[1] http://warmcat.com/_wp/2010/02/08/fosdem-and-the-linux-cr...
[2] http://archive.fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/emb_cross_...
[3] http://www.send-patches.org/news/20100211-1-FOSDEM-Crossd...