some things that we need to allow a better comunity: standard better hardware documents manyyyyyy hardware documents (since we can do every think with onewire (slow control) an plc could be replaced with some computers nanoitx or wireless routers...) a world wide test server ( i will put my onewire at owfs to allow everyone to connect it, but i need an firewall working ok since it's my business machine and i only use output connections no input connections) since we will work with network (intranet and internet) UDP could be a very good feature to work with itnranet and microcontrollers (an small PIC 18fxxxx could do the work) a nice logo :) for software and hardware
David Lissiuk escreveu: > Standards are a good thing. And OWFS has become a major player in terms > of 1-Wire work. As an end user, I'd like to know that my hardware is > fully supported and tested by OWFS and uses a wiring standard like > 1WRJ45 when I buy the product along with knowing any enclosures IP > rating. (Weather proof level). Seeing this on packaging and advertising > would be a real plus to me. > > Since some PCB's are sold as bare boards, a PCB logo would be a way for > a manufacture to indicate that this product is fully supported by OWFS. > As such, a logo need to small and legible and designed for a single > color silk-screen. Also if it's to be used in a wide variety of places, > such as web sites, black and white printed material and packaging or > advertising it has to be highly visible while simple and legible. As a > manufacture, this is import if I want to push OWFS support. > > My general idea of where a logo can take us would be that it that it's > the start and a can be used as a good reason for manufactures to submit > hardware samples to the OWFS group (numbers to be determined). And in > return, receive the limited rights to use the logo for packaging or > advertising purposes. Along with knowledge that the manufactured > submitted product would be fully supported and tested by official OWFS > software releases for some period of time (minimum to be determined > also). Over time this could develop into a fee based system, though at > the moment it is much too early for that. Maybe adding the word > certified under the logo would be a way of handling this? > > The benefits is that it would provide more hardware to the group for > testing purposes, and give a central way to insure that software testing > is done by the group. End users would be reasonably sure that the > hardware will work in OWFS systems. To get there I'd like to see even > greater testing done of official major releases in the future (something > that is never easy) and the development of some standard automated test > scripts. (excuse me, as I don't really know what sort of test scripting > or program is currently done now). Again, having run large major > software projects myself, I know this is not the most attractive thing > that developers want to work on, so the trade of interesting hardware > would help make this an easier burden to bear. Good standardized testing > would be of benefit to all in the long term. > > I see a possible explosion of different 1-wire equipment coming and many > difficult challenges ahead, so starting to have some more structure > would be a good thing I think. So developing standard ways of dealing > with board manufactures is a good thing and gives the group some > benefits, and could eventually help offset the costs of running the > group. And a good simple logo is a decent start towards that. > > Cheers, > Dave > > David Lissiuk > Sr. Computer Scientist > Springbok Digitronics > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Owfs-developers mailing list > Owfs-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers > > Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo E-mail Protegido Terra. > Scan engine: McAfee VirusScan / Atualizado em 12/02/2007 / Versão: 5.1.00/4961 > Proteja o seu e-mail Terra: http://mail.terra.com.br/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Owfs-developers mailing list Owfs-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers
