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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik(a)redhat.com> 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
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