Re: [YBA] Freescale i.MX27 project

2009-08-16 Thread Marc Volovic
On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: [giant snip] Here is what could have been done to make things better. The client issues a request for a project at cost+, asking for a discount on the hourly rate in exchange for a significant bonus in case the project is delivered on

[YBA] Freescale i.MX27 project

2009-08-13 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Dear Linux-IL members, A potential customer of mine has designed a board based closely on a Freescale i.MX27 reference board. He has just received a few samples of the board from manufacturing this week. The customer is looking for someone who can a commit to doing the board bring-up

Re: [YBA] Freescale i.MX27 project

2009-08-13 Thread sammy ominsky
On 13/08/2009, at 09:04, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: The customer is looking for someone who can a commit to doing the board bring-up process, write the BSP and set up a BusyBox distribution with Qt libraries within five weeks, with significant penalties for late delivery. Are there

Re: [YBA] Freescale i.MX27 project

2009-08-13 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
No, you have to include them in your price quotation. - yba On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, sammy ominsky wrote: Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:34:58 +0300 From: sammy ominsky s...@avoidant.org To: ILUG linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Re: [YBA] Freescale i.MX27 project On 13/08/2009, at 09:04, Jonathan

Re: [YBA] Freescale i.MX27 project

2009-08-13 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
To: sammy ominsky s...@avoidant.org Cc: ILUG linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Re: [YBA] Freescale i.MX27 project sammy ominsky wrote: On 13/08/2009, at 09:04, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: The customer is looking for someone who can a commit to doing the board bring-up process, write the BSP and set up

Re: [YBA] Freescale i.MX27 project

2009-08-13 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: The client is surprised. They usually don't understand that it was their penalty requirements that drove the price up. After all, this is supposed to be a simple project, merely performing adaptations to an already brought up platform,

Re: [YBA] Freescale i.MX27 project

2009-08-13 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: Hi Shachar, Without knowing the details... You don't need any more details, you hit the nail on the head. The question is, who would take such a project? Actually, that's an easy one. Assuming the penalties are capped by the amount you are supposed to receive

Re: [YBA] Freescale i.MX27 project

2009-08-13 Thread Marc Volovic
On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: Hi Shachar, Without knowing the details... You don't need any more details, you hit the nail on the head. The question is, who would take such a project? A kamikaze pilot. Five weeks for an unproven hardware platform is

Re: [YBA] Freescale i.MX27 project

2009-08-13 Thread Shachar Shemesh
sammy ominsky wrote: On 13/08/2009, at 09:04, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: The customer is looking for someone who can a commit to doing the board bring-up process, write the BSP and set up a BusyBox distribution with Qt libraries within five weeks, with significant penalties for late

Re: [YBA] Freescale i.MX27 project

2009-08-13 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Marc Volovic wrote: On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: Hi Shachar, Without knowing the details... You don't need any more details, you hit the nail on the head. The question is, who would take such a project? A kamikaze pilot.

Re: [YBA] Freescale i.MX27 project

2009-08-13 Thread Danny Lieberman
Shachar Shakoof. Well put.I personally would tell the customer hasta la vista danny -- Danny Lieberman - http://www.software.co.il/wordpress - Danny on data security Twitter:

Re: [YBA] Freescale i.MX27 project

2009-08-13 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Shachar Shemesh wrote: Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: Hi Shachar, Without knowing the details... You don't need any more details, you hit the nail on the head. The question is, who would take such a project? Actually, that's an easy one. Assuming the penalties are capped by the amount you are