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Harald Welte laforge at gnumonks.orgHi Holger,
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:36:44PM +0200, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
> * I started with specifying simple tasks and offering guidance when
> someone wants to implement that. One could go to Universities and
> hacker spaces to find people motivated to try it. So if there is
> 1/10 success rate on such projects it would already be positive.
Good idea.
> * Obstacles. One needs to have access to a base station to do meaningful
> work. Now thanks to you there are plenty of individuals with a BS11,
> and then there are Nokia/Ericsson/nanoBTS and sysmoBTS out there. We
> also have public events like the XXC3, Camp, OHM. So maybe we should
> be more active in announcing that we want implementers at these
> events?
> Or maybe even hold a two day event in Berlin to ask interested people
> to implement things?
Might be worth trying, but I don't think there will be many people whom
we don't already know that would travel to Berlin just to work on some
code.
> * Seek for monetary support. Sure some of our commercial users, use
> the software because it is of zero cost and would never pay a dime
> for anything. But maybe there are others that want to contribute some
> money for features? We could do some more ads that companies like
> sysmocom offer high class, cost-effective customisations to OpenBSC.
I don't like that option. If at all, it would be the business interest
of such companies to do so (and they are free to do so), but not
something that should be advertised on / in relation to the OpenBSC
project and/or websites.
If at all, we could have a wiki page that contains a simple list of
businesses who are able to provide commercial customization / support /
R&D related to openbsc.
> * Adopt a model like it is/was(?) used by PackageKit. Contributors
> do get direct access.. the public needs to wait a penalty time to
> see the code. It makes it clear that value contributors more than
> users.
I dislike that even more.
> man regcomp, it is part of posix.
ok, thanks.
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- Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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