On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 19:18, Randall Arnold <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I don't see anything in those comments that is a show-stopper for the Linux
> Foundation fronting the program. As I mentioned earlier in this thread,
> there's no 'one size fits all' so any program, even if run as a proxy for all
> providers, would naturally need to accommodate individual goals of the
> providers.
Indeed, I wasn't suggesting that it was insurmountable; just that each
vendor will want to enter into a device programme to get something in
return. The things they want in return will vary (I guess) depending
on the end-user readiness of the boards; their involvement in the
community to do; their other programmes; the cost of the hardware etc.
> I don't see that as insurmountable. We simply design those requirements into
> the program.
Yes, and this seems to be the core of the programme. Perhaps some kind
of profile-based approach; i.e. a collection of programme *templates*
which can be picked and chosen from?
My main point was that it needs to be kept agile enough to handle the
(potentially) wildly different requirements from hardware vendors.
For example...
> I specifically involved TI at the start because I was approached by
> their OMAP community manager with the proposal to get Pandaboards into the
> hands of developers.
So, a rough process for approaching such a vendor could be:
What do XXX's requirements boil down to? For TI this seems to be simply:
* Get Pandaboards into the hands of developers. Do we know what kind of
"developers", I'm going to assume "platform"?
Then the other questions are:
* How many have they got to allocate?
* Are there strings attached?
* Do they want any say in who they go to, or is it entirely at the
discretion of the MeeGo project?
* Will they ship directly to a set of names & addresses?
* Is there a cost to the developer? (i.e. is it free or discounted?)
* How does "the MeeGo project" decide?
o Ask for volunteers?
o Go forth and tap people up?
o Who is involved in the decision?
o How does the institutional memory work if someone turns out to
be all talk?
If we can answer those, we should have an initial sketch of a device
programme :-)
Cheers,
Andrew
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