[oe] OE Booth during fosdem

[Koen Kooi]

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Jim Thompson schreef:
> On Feb 14, 2007, at 12:22 PM, Tim Bird wrote:
> 
>> gerwin van der kruis wrote:
>>>>>> Is it a good idea to make a hardware donation box where companies
>>>>>> donate hardware that we port to openembedded ?
>>>>> idea like idea - we need to consider how to server such requests
>>>> Do think of promoting this beforehand. I don't think there will  
>>>> be many
>>>> people going: "Oh I have this ${DEVICE} in my bag somewhere with all
>>>> cables and power supply. Please have it." People usually don't carry
>>>> surplus HW with them. A little money donation box might be a good  
>>>> idea
>>>> as well. It is easier to organize and people usually carry money to
>>>> FOSDEM (you just need to convince them to give it to you instead of
>>>> O'Reilly :-)
>>>>
>>> Maybe an idea to promote it on linuxdevices.com ?
>>>
>>> Do we have a fund where we can store the funds we get ?
>>>
>>> I was thinking to set up like a hardware distribution list
>> FYI - I'm not offering anything specific at the moment,
>> but CELF has a fund for making hardware donations for
>> interesting OSS projects.  If there's some piece of hardware
>> that someone thinks would really advance the goals of
>> the OE project, please let me know, and I can have CELF
>> consider donating it.
> 
> Ya know, I'd consider donating hardware (see www.netgate.com for what  
> we have) and/or cash if someone would put up a
> "build the bootable ISO so you can boot-n-install an OE image on a   
> HD on ye-olde-random PeeCee" set of patches, or even a recipe for same
> 
> Or, equivalently, an image (complete with boot sector) that one could  
> DD onto a CF card or actual IDE drive that would boot a given root  
> image on ye-olde-PeeCee.
> 
> OpenEmbedded would go a lot faster if people could experiment on  
> garden-variety PCs rather than go through the "fun" of getting it up- 
> n-running on more esoteric hardware.

Marcin, Jamie, Phil, Gerwin and I are using OE to build for vairous x86 machines
(MACHINE={guinness,epia,x86). For some graphic pleasure:
http://dominion.kabel.utwente.nl/koen/cms/madness

regards,

Koen


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