On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Speaking about hardware - and that's more a question for Spot - could >> be possible to organize another round of HW give away as we did with >> Raspberries? With a different HW, that's supported in Fedora and it >> seems like there are pretty cheap options either. With some metrics, >> like commits/packages/packages that need significant effort to make >> it working on ARM... > > The sentiment is nice, but I don't think that last hardware give away > went all that well. Also, to get something competent is going to cost > money. I have no idea what the Fedora budget looks like, but frankly > I'd rather use money on something more beneficial than buying hardware > for a bunch of people that aren't already working on ARM. It will > likely have a shiny factor of about 1 week, and then it will sit on > their desk collecting dust. I agree, not sure what the contribution to the RPi stuff was like but for the XOs that were given away I'm not aware of a single contribution to any of the Fedora/OLPC/Sugar projects as a result of it. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
