Revision as of 19:53, 5 March 2011

Texas Instruments Program Details

(Jayabharath Goluguri, OMAP community manager)

Our intent is the following:

1. To provide boards that helps make MeeGo rock on ARM hardware (in our case OMAP :)
2. Enable meego community access to HW to do the necessary optimizations for ARM SoC's (in our case OMAP)
3. Enable innovation with MeeGo that is typically possible only with development platforms (e.g., multiple display support, boot from MMC, interfacing & integration to various sensors)

When the above happens we all will benefit from it.

Constraints (we prefer but not absolutely need to make this happen):

• We would 'prefer' these board not be used for work that can be done on more available hardware e.g., MeeGo running on Netbooks. i.e., community council can factor if there is a need for these devices for the project.
• If boards are not activitly being used by a developer we would 'enourage' developers to pass it onto someone else in the community who can make better use of these platform.

The boards that I plan to use for this activity are coming out of quotas allocated by TI to sponsor various PandaBoard community activities (including MeeGo). I might be able to find more boards if I can get TI marketing team to foot the bill (I havent had a discussion with them yet - but can do so based on the MeeGo community needs)

With the current plans - I might be able to provide (I can confirm the exact number within the next week):

• 4-5 Boards in Dec 2010
• 1 Board/month in 2011 (i.e., 12 boards)
• In addition: I am planning having PandaBoard.org participate with key projects to collaborate for GSoc 2011. We can also explore other opportunities e.g., MeeGo 2011 Google Summer of Code projects that required ARM/OMAP hardware. I can certainly get board allocated for Mentors as well as students.

Request form: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dG5mcVNXSFFleVZjVFNtMVVqXzVYY1E6MQ