Hello,
UK folks may be interested to know that there will be an intro to writing applications for the Parallella board workshop hosted as part of OSHCamp 2014, on Sunday 17th August, run by none other than Simon Cook of Embecosm (who works on the GNU toolchain for the Epiphany SDK). Simon will also be giving a talk on the Saturday.
For further details, the full conference programme and registration links etc. see:
http://oshug.org/event/oshcamp2014
Cheers,
Andrew