Congratulation for this new sponsor and contact :) 2011/11/5 <[email protected]>
> 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 >
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