On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 21:20 +0100, Attila Kinali wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:11:38 -0500 > "Timothy Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But no one should want to buy OGD1 to get a graphics card. They might > > get one if they want to help DESIGN a graphics card, however. > > Exactly. The problem is, how do we manage the PR, that > 1) We can sell an FPGA board, while > 2) promoting the development of an graphics card
How about this: Sell the card at a good price for a FPGA development card. Make it just cheap enough that it will appeal to that market. Then, state that: If you register the card, and if you help with development of the OGP video card, you will be given a large rebate on the card later when you meet certain requirements. Timothy would have to pick carefully what the requirements for the rebate would be. I would suggest something like: 1) At least 250 lines of code was submitted by the card owner and accepted into the project. or 2) Some third party is chosen to declare who has made a significant contribution and their decisions are final. or 3) Something else or 4) Some combination of the above This would have the advantage that the OG Project would be getting and giving value for value. If you want a decent FPGA dev board, you can buy it from OGP at a good price. If you want to develop a cool open source graphics card and actually do so, then you get a reasonably priced platform on which to do so. In a way, OGP pays you (your own money) for your work. This would have the advantage that people will be encouraged to follow through on their dreams of helping OGP development. ;-) What do you think? Cheers, Ray _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
