Have you study how the milkymist project have grown ? The project has been done mainly by a single guy : Sébastien Bourdeauducq. He first design the verilog model in an open source way, which was the most time consuming task (5 years ?). When the design is ready, it could make an affordable product (400€) that could be reprogram by any one, by the use of spartan device that is include in the xilinx free web kit.
http://www.milkymist.org/ So it first began with the design, then the fpga became cheap enough to be include in web kit, then a fully workable product could be sell, to raise enough money for a custom chip. It use less money, and more people could be involve. Regards, Nicolas 2011/5/16 Timothy Normand Miller <[email protected]>: > Dear OGP members, > > Andre Pouliot and I have been strugging with the problem of how to > make the OGP productive again. The OGP has made a lot of > accomplishments, but activity has been dead for quite a while now. We > believe that part of the problem has been how we tried to go about > funding development. It was all wrong, because we shot too high with > OGD1, and we couldn't afford to go into production until after > interest had waned considerably. Some serious restructuring is > necessary, and we've been working on a plan for that. In short, we > need a way to create cash flow to fund hardware production, and we > believe we have come up with a solution that includes every > contributor in both the design and economic aspects. We will spread > out the cost burden, spread out the profit among contributors, and > invest in less ambitious projects, with broader appeal. At the > moment, the plan is about 75% baked, and we want to make sure it's > very clear and logical before we publish it. For that, we'd like some > feedback from a small number of people who would be willing to look at > it in confidence. Once it's finalized, we'll publish it. The next > problem is that we need a web site upon which we can implement some of > the automated aspects of this plan. Here, we lack expertise. Even > before that, we will need to have the front page up, with basic > information. > > So, in short, we're asking for these kinds of volunteers: > > - Planners and architects willing to carefully consider the plan we're > writing up and assist with expressing it well. > - Web designers willing to construct and maintain the web site, > ultimately implementing the heart of the plan in software. > > BTW, we need a small number at first to look at the plan. We need to > avoid having too many cooks in the kitchen. We want an idea that's > good, not one that's perfect. Too much feedback, and it'll never get > off the ground. That's why we're not publishing openly early. > > > -- > Timothy Normand Miller > http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti > Open Graphics Project > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) > _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
