[CREATE] Re : LGM is about libre software & libre graphics; what about libre hardware?

[Jon Phillips]

Hi Jan and Ivan, this is what I'm working on with many others at
http://qi-hardware.com

We are working on copyleft hardware, and making nanonotes: http://nanonote.cc

Elphel is quite cool and there are other projects as well which one
can consider as copyleft hardware.

I'm working hardest personally on the two biggest broken parts in the
stack, networks and hardware. Right now, software, content, and people
are free. Networks are being freed through efforts like Status.net and
hardware, the hardest part, through http://qi-hardware.com

Please join us there to talk about! I encourage all too! We need more
developers!!!

Jon

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Ivan Louette <ivan_louette at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> That's good news !
>
> Of course, synchronizing that to a future LGM would be desirable and helpful
> to open other doors again.
>
> Now encourage hardware constructors to open more and more their material
> specifications (I think of course at graphic cards) would be also of a great
> help to create decent drivers...!
>
> ivan
>
> ________________________________
> De : Jan Claeys <lists at janc.be>
> À : create <create at freedesktop.org>
> Envoyé le : Lun 7 juin 2010, 23h 36min 29s
> Objet : [CREATE] LGM is about libre software & libre graphics; what about
> libre hardware?
>
> When I was at LGM, (almost?) all talks concentrated on free or open
> source software, using it, and/or the creation of free/libre graphics,
> fonts, movies, etc.  And there was a lot of stuff to discover there,
> both from well-known and from new projects.  And of course the diversity
> of software developers vs. users was great...
>
> But what about the hardware parts?
> There are some people working on actual "libre graphics hardware" too!
>
> I list a couple of hardware(-related) projects below, but I'm sure they
> aren't the only ones, and it might be great to invite some of these
> projects to future LGMs?
>
> http://www.elphel.com/
> A company providing camera hardware based on "off-the-shelf" hardware
> components connected by open source wiring diagrams & FPGA programs.
>
> http://cinema.elphel.com/
> A community project to create an "open source" digital movie camera good
> enough to create cinema quality movies.
>
> http://chdk.wikia.com/
> Open source firmwares for "Canon PowerShot" photo cameras that give you
> more control over your camera than the official firmwares.
>
> Does anybody know about other similar interesting hardware(-related)
> projects?
>
>
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