[Battlemesh] [OpenWrt-Devel] Request for Feedback - prplwrt Software Support Program - initial draft

[Eric Schultz]

Felix,

Oops, forgot to respond to the prplwrt repo question. When prpl was getting
started, it wasn't clear if we wanted to create our own fork of OpenWrt or
not. There wasn't much interest in doing that so I just ended up deleting
it. I think we're more interested in working with the core OpenWrt
community than building our own separate version of OpenWrt.

Eric

On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org> wrote:

> On 2016-03-04 18:42, Eric Schultz wrote:
> > Saverio,
> >
> > No problem, I'm happy to clarify. prplwrt is a working group in prpl
> > Foundation, which is a membership organization focusing on open source
> > and industry. prplwrt in particular has the following mission: "The
> > mission of the prplwrt PEG is to enable close collaboration between
> > users, hardware manufacturers, semiconductor companies, and the broader
> > OpenWrt ecosystem in a community-run fashion. The focus of the
> > technology enhancements are centered around creating a robust, flexible
> > open source platform suitable for mission critical, highly reliable
> > products. We encourage innovation and applicability to a wide variety of
> > hardware platforms."
> >
> > As the mission has said, prplwrt focuses on ways to improve
> > collaboration between community and industry. We've done that in a few
> > different ways:
> >
> > * organize weekly, public meetings open to anyone interested to discuss
> > OpenWrt (Meeting videos can be seen at
> > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXrC-Z4UIvYqa_oNtj0Y9_NBDlQhTSXNk
> )
> > * funding and organizing the first OpenWrt Summit in October 2015 in
> > Dublin (Videos are at
> > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXrC-Z4UIvYpSV5WcjEVgz6boq30GOFPf
> )
> > * improving and generalizing the BoardFarm testing work that QCA
> > released (https://github.com/qca/boardfarm)
> > * organizing an effort to discourage the FCC from restricting
> > modification of devices, particularly routers
> > (
> http://prpl.works/2015/09/21/yes-the-fcc-might-ban-your-operating-system/)
> >
> > Over the next year we have the following goals:
> >
> > * Funding OpenWrt work through the PSSP
> > * Keeping the community and industry up to date on how regulations
> > affect OpenWrt
> > * Organizing and funding the next OpenWrt Summit in Berlin in
> > conjunction with ELCE
> > * Continuing improvements to BoardFarm to make it a general testing
> > framework for OpenWrt
> >
> > We're flexible though and open to new goals and collaboration with the
> > community. I hope that gives you a better sense of what we do. We'd also
> > love to have you join our mailing list by visiting
> > http://lists.prplfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt
> So what volume of funding does prpl have for OpenWrt related projects?
> Also, I noticed that the prplwrt github repo was taken down. Is the idea
> dead and buried, or will is there a plan to resurrect it and give it
> another shot?
>
> - Felix
>



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