Re: First draft of "OROCOS II" proposal...

Herman Bruyninckx <[email protected]> writes:

> On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Cezary Zielinski wrote:

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> 
> I would love to find a larger group ofpartners that have the required
> expertise! Don't forget that we are putting _very_ high demands:
> - expert software engineers (proven by code).
> - open source experience.
> - control experience, in more than a narrow application area.

At this point, I should butt in and mention two things:

1. The CLAWAR network is now (moderately) committed to developing on an
   Linux/RTAI platform, and it's internal commitment to Open Standards
   leads naturally to the production of GPL'd reference
   implementations. Those of you who saw the SCORE proposal will know
   something of what I mean.
   Hence, CLAWAR (and offshoots) might be a reasonable larger group of
   partners. I've CC'd this to the co-ordinator to see what he says.

> 
> > - better chances of getting funding for the project (3 academic
> > partners will not suffice for an IP Б┬  funding of a STREP can be
> > obtained at the most): lack of the so called critical mass,
> Don't forget that the core is only part of the project: there is also
> the subcontracting part, which is reasonably large.

2. You may find the subcontracting angle to work better if the
   subcontracts are "here is some money for one of your people to come
   to us with some of your hardware and port this system to it" - this
   builds the pool of the involved community more rapidly, as well as
   providing an increased set of platforms the system can operate on.

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cheers, Rich.

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