On 30/06/07, Timothy Normand Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/29/07, Josephblack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>snip
> Looking at some of the talks, some just are business people - not sure
> about number of attending uh, who get the tech.snip
I just added this to the slides:
Community involvement
Assistance from companies
Ad this to the notes:
We have had a lot of help from the community
Various companies have helped us out: discounts, use of facilities,
licensing of IP
Our progress is slow but steady: persistence
snip
This seems to be a very business-oriented conference, as you say. Not
like, say, the Ohio LinuxFest, which has lots of talks on projects
being worked on.
I'm sure lots of tech and geek people will be there, though.
--
Timothy Normand Miller
hmm. With business guys, unfortunately some still dont see why they
shouldnt go to the big names and let their designers & programmers
just work it out. somehow.
looking thru the slides - which are really good, and nice graphics
too.. some random thoughts:
Slide 2:
Free Software puts power into the hands of the users, graphics cards
were taking that away, we wanted to fix that problem.
This may impact a Linux Enthusiast but I wonder about companies?
How about uh..I am not good at this.. that you as a small company
have access to programmers around the world - all who could fix a
problem for free because it benefits them too. Eg. I listened to a
talk that IBM has not that many programmers for the kernel. Yet the
company depends upon it for a significant portion of income. Compare
that with MS which may have bet the farm on Vista, I wonder how many
work on Vista?
OGP will allow that to happen with embedded systems. A Lone Programmer
working on this part time in companies around the world will allow
them to work together with graphics cards that meet their needs.
Smaller companies can now innovate with low overheads. Bigger
companies can experiment without taking the whole risk themselves, and
they all benefit to some extent. I think I heard that pj from groklaw
said it something like: Bring a brick and you all get a house. Each.
The talk also doesnt yet explain why the existing status quo is not
acceptable. Can embedded developers distribute compiled code that uses
propriatry drivers? And some companies have made seemingly vapourous
promises to eventually release their drivers as Open Source. Some
comments about them may help.
slide 7 is perhaps a point you could mention embedded applications.
(did I miss them?)
slide 10." Not for high end games". While we dont want to raise hopes
about games - could we just mention that we are leaving high end
games for later, as extreme gamers are not our target. Yet we do
expect many games to be playable, though to a point.
slide 12. Any platform - could this be important to them? They can
write a driver based upon the existing drivers with are open and the
developers are accessable.
PCI that is open source and already is working in this demo board -
would this be worth a mention? If the lattice and PCI code were to be
used in a nother board would we require their seperate chip's code to
be open source as long as the PCI was left open source and in a
separate chip? And will you mention that you will license the PCI and
eventually graphics under other licenses as well.
I like 12. this might be a good slide before q&a.
throwing it out into the hat<g>
jb
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