Re: OE Booth during fosdem

[Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>]

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.
 -- Tim

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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Electronics
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