Project partners: another trial idea...

Dear all,

Before taking a final decision about which groups will be `official'
partners for OROCOS, I first want to have your opinion on the
following suggestion: what if we would take all 10+ interested
partners, and each gave them 0.5 man year/year + two brainstorming
travel grants?

The advantages:
- more groups are actively involved, hence increasing the probability
of higher quality results.
- nobody has to feel by-passed.
- OROCOS is open source, so we will have to manage input from
many contributors anyway.
- from the start, OROCOS has been seen as a `partially funded' project:
partners are expected to put more man power in the project than the
amount of man months they are funded for. thin


The disadvantages:
- a larger consortium brings more management.
- it 
might be difficult to hire people with only partial funding.

Please let 
me know your feelings about this idea before the end of the
day 
(wednesday).

Best regards,

Herman


Herman, 

I also think that it is a good idea. Involving more partners in the OROCOS
project, although with only partial funding, would increase considerably 
the number of contributions to the different work packages. 

Many research centers have a lot of good quality software that could become
contributions to OROCOS with only minor changes or...simply adding a good
documentation. 

Regards, 
-- 
 
Ernesto Staffetti

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Division of Production Engineering, Machine Design and Automation
(Office 01.015)

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