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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:52:02 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@lsi.com>
To: "Nahum, Nelson" <Nelson.Nahum@lsi.com>
Subject: Re: Updated: Idea of Open Source forum
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Hi Nelson,

It's looking like I won't be well enough in time for this discussion,
so let's reschedule it for next week.  I've been out for two days now
with some kind of creeping crud that's got me by the throat.

Thanks,

a


On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 11:28:03 -0700 "Nahum, Nelson"
<Nelson.Nahum@lsi.com> wrote:

> When: Friday, February 12, 2010 09:00-10:00 (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time
> (US & Canada). Where: 1 866 214 7945 INTL 1 702 696 4029 code 949 255
> 4623
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> *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
> 
> Moving to Friday per Rod's request.
> 
> Ken, Rod,
> 
> Andy had a very good idea to start a "forum" of people that will
> promote the adoption of open source inside LSI. (or at least ESG). I
> would like to setup this call, to do more brainstorming and define
> the next steps.
> 
> We had an initial discussion of 30 minutes, and it seems that will be
> a lot of value to start doing that. Here are some of the thoughts we
> discussed:
> 
> 
> 1 - A group of people with the expertise to help LSI IT to adopt Open
> Source products. 2 - The same about which open source components can
> be delivered with our products. 3 - A group that will encourage
> engineers to join and learn/develop for the open source community.
> (this will also motivate engineers to work on "fun" projects in their
> "spare" time) 4 - Possible outputs of the forum (needs to be
> measurable)
>     - provide assistance to LSI teams and product managers wishing to
> use specific open source component (legal and technical)
>     - webinars and training to other engineers about Open Source
> software (technical)
>     - an internal newsgroup where engineers can ask questions to
> others.
>     - development of open source projects. (a good example could be
> the development of an Eclipse IDE, that will be customized to develop
> "OSA apps." for Orion and that LSI engineers (or anybody) could start
> developing a "hello world" OSA App. in seconds. (even that connect
> with real hardware running predefined Linux VMs with all the OSA
> drivers and sw needed for Orion.
> 
> 1 866 214 7945 INTL 1 702 696 4029 code 949 255 4623
> 
> Nelson
> 
> 
