On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:35:36PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > 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. People who are inclined to do non-trivial contributions to ARM will probably just go out and buy some ARM hardware themselves, particularly given how cheaply you can obtain the hardware. For others, having a central pool of Fedora managed/owned ARM hardware they can get temporary access to for the purpose of troubleshooting is likely a better use of limited funds. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
