Hello there! I told few words about it in the latest weekly news and things went faster than expected :). I'm very glad to announce that we're going to receive several ARM based devices from Genesi [1], an American company, thanks to their projects sponsorship program. The application of our project for this program was proposed and achieved [2] one week ago by Gérald who's been working on our ARM port since months. This is of course an incredible opportunity since the ARM platform is quickly growing, congratulations!
We have exchanged several emails with Genesi within the past few days. I invite you to browse their product catalog online [3]. They're about to ship us several “old” laptops based on iMX51. As the sponsorship program is about their new products based on iMX53, we'll receive new hardware later (it's not ready yet). As you guess, the priority for these devices is set to developers and then graphic designers. Genesi will likely be able to provide additional devices for testers in early 2012. [1] http://www.genesi-usa.com/ [2] http://projects.powerdeveloper.org/program/imx53/accepted [3] http://www.genesi-usa.com/products Concerning the company, we don't know much about it yet (investigations are welcome). They highlighted the existence of a non-profit organization called Power2people [4] which seems strongly linked to Genesi. Their goal “is to provide very low cost and very reliable end-user computing devices in emerging communities that can be competently managed locally”. I let you read their website. Concerning the Genesi program, as it is just starting, we have to discuss internally about how to manage it. Their goal is to have DDL in their list of supported distributions, at the bottom of their homepage [5]. We then have to clarify who does what. We have already organized a short IRC meeting with Elisa and Gérald [6] and will organize new ones in the upcoming days and weeks. Of course you're invited to join these meetings, I'll send an URL to let you indicate your availability for the next IRC meetings. Finally, I'm about to organize kind of small information campaign on our website and on Debian derivatives through their Planet Derivatives [6]. If you own a blog, don't hesitate to tell the news too :). [4] http://power2people.org/ [5] http://www.powerdeveloper.org/ [6] http://planet.debian.org/deriv/ All the best! JM. _______________________________________________ Doudoulinux-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-dev
