[MeeGo-community] Nudging the Community Device Program

[Foster, Dawn M]

On Dec 2, 2010, at 5:11 PM, Randall Arnold wrote:

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>> ----- Original message ----- 
>> From: "a.grandi at gmail.com‎" <a.grandi at gmail.com>
>> To: "Randall Arnold‎" <texrat at ovi.com>
>> cc: "MeeGo community‎" <meego-community at meego.com>, "MeeGo Dev List‎" <meego-dev at meego.com>
>> Subject: Re: [MeeGo-community] Nudging the Community Device Program
>> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 02:03:24 +0100
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>> Hi,
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>> On 3 December 2010 00:40, Randall Arnold <texrat at ovi.com> wrote:
>>> Now that we have a nice offer from TI to get Pandaboards into the hands of
>>> developers [1] it's time as Quim suggested to get serious about the
>>> Community Device Program [2].  I will repost some of the wiki content here
>>> followed by my thoughts and questions:
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>> maybe I' missing something... if TI is going to provide these
>> Pandaboards, why are you talking about budget from
>> Nokia/Intel/LinuxFoundation?
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> I think you did miss something, Andrea-- that's exactly MY question for the wiki page.  ;)
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> I can try to rephrase if it's really that unclear…
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The vision for this program is to put together a framework that makes it very easy for
anyone to contribute devices and have them go to the most qualified community members
in exchange for some commitment to do something cool with the device. The idea is that
we put together one program administered by the Linux Foundation that many companies
can contribute devices to. Intel and Nokia will, of course, want to put some budget together
to contribute our devices into the program :)

I'm guessing the Linux Foundation won't need to contribute any budget, but they might need
to administer some of it.

Dawn