Hello friends,
With reference to earlier mail, we had met at CCD yesterday and discussed a few things. So as per the mentioned agenda we want to take open source to academia where the students can interact and contribute to open source. Well this is in the context of embedded systems. So our next target: 1. Design a circuit board which would be priced at less than Rs. 500 2. Combine open source tool chain, libraries which students can use to develop something of their own. 3. The product should be self sustaining, i.e. we don’t want to do door to door selling. So if we put this on Google code ,sourceforge, etc it should run on it’s own. In short we want to develop a strong ecosystem around the product which would make it obvious choice for any student who wants/forced to do some project. 4. Write some code (approx 5 man month worth of code) for the circuit board. Folks aligned with similar vision are welcome for the next meet.We would chalk out a realistic road map for the same with tangible deadlines in the next meet. I would put more details in a day or two. BTW Abhijeet Bopatkar Kapil Agarwal Amit Karpe Sushil Thanks for coming. Cheers !!! Chaitannya follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/chaitannya -- I believe there's a hero in all of us who keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most... even our dreams. - Spider Man 2 On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Chaitannya Mahatme <chaitan...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello friends, > > We would meeting on Saturday, a casual chit-chat over opensource and the > real world. > We are planning to take opensource with a pragmatic approach to the > universities. Also lot of us have talked about the void between academia > and > the industry. I guess it's time we contribute our two cents for the cause. > > Well we would also celebrate the launch of ubuntu 10.04 (Some good reason > to munch pastries / cakes over the coffee ). > > Place: cafe coffee day (a lot can happen over coffee) , law college road. > Time: Saturday 3 pm > > P.S. We are not forming any group, it's just a casual meeting. > > -- > Cheers !!! > Chaitannya > > follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/chaitannya > > -- > I believe there's a hero in all of us who keeps us honest, gives us > strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, > even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we > want the most... even our dreams. > - Spider Man 2 > _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
