Re: [Balloon] Balloon Developers Meeting - Friday 13th July

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Author: Jim Rayner
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To: Balloon
Subject: Re: [Balloon] Balloon Developers Meeting - Friday 13th July
I'll be there

Also limited to morning only

Best regards, Jim


On 7/4/07, Wookey <> wrote:
> Sorry for the late announcement - this should have gone out last week.
>
> The next Balloon developer meeting will be at Toby Churchill Ltd,
> 10:00 am, Friday 13th July. This is rescheduled from last month, as
> previously posted.
>
> We'd like to try and keep this to a half-day rather than have it take
> all day, but we'll have to see how things go.
>
> There has been a great deal of activity on the balloon front in the
> last couple of months with the software now in much better shape
> (although still in need of plenty of work).
>
> We are very close to the point where CUED can start shiping developer
> boxes and want to try and deal with any outstranding issues at this
> meeting so it can happen.
>
> All are welcome; please reply so we have an idea how many will be
> there. Some sustenance will be provided.
>
> Agenda will cover these issues - please reply if there are things you
> things should be added:
>
> * Balloon Open Hardware License - needs finalising enough that we can
> release stuff (expect more mail about this next week)
>
> * Demo systems:
>    Brainstorming cool demo ideas

>
> * Balloon dev system distribution list
>    - who gets them?
>    - community mobilisation - communication issues

>
> * Software Build System
>  - current status, outstanding issues:
>    bootldr: port to gcc 4.1
>    kernel: RNDIS support
>        balloon2 support
>        ucb1400 codec improvements
>    debootstrap:
>        1st stage booting issues with USB
>    makefiles:
>        better module set handling

>
> * Out-of-box experience
>    Windows and Linux conectivity (USB serial/ethernet,RNDIS, adaptors, vnc, X, nomachine etc)
>    IDE?
>    Examples?

>
> * Armel (EABI) status and issues (toolchain, kernel bugs)
>
> * Docs status - wiki conversion?/tidying
>
>
> Wookey
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