[gentoo-project] Send a collaboration propossal to the Raspberry Pi team

[gentoo-project] Send a collaboration propossal to the Raspberry Pi team

[Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)]

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Hi,

Today some devs in the #gentoo-hardened channel have shown interest in
supporting the Raspberry Pi board in Gentoo. I was going to send them a
proposal in the name of Gentoo Hardened project but it seems it will be
more interesting to send one in the name of the whole project and,
maybe, even try to get Gentoo as one of the initially supported distros.

Well, what do you think about it?


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Re: [gentoo-project] Send a collaboration propossal to the Raspberry Pi team

[Diego Augusto Molina]

Great!

Well I'm not gentoo dev at all, but that's an interesting project I
see. I had worked on other kind of developments and I'm currently
working at my country's government. I may be a dreamer... but it would
be great if I can help introducing gentoo on a Raspberry Pi _and_
(even further) introduce it in my country's educational system.

Anyway, I have used other distros than gentoo (even the evil $$$) and
never looked back after I came here. If the project is going to happen
you can count on my humble collaboration :)

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Re: [gentoo-project] Send a collaboration propossal to the Raspberry Pi team

[Rich Freeman]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Diego Augusto Molina
<diegoaugustomolina@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well I'm not gentoo dev at all, but that's an interesting project I
> see. I had worked on other kind of developments and I'm currently
> working at my country's government. I may be a dreamer... but it would
> be great if I can help introducing gentoo on a Raspberry Pi _and_
> (even further) introduce it in my country's educational system.

So, not speaking officially for the trustees, the typical way that the
Foundation gets involved in these sorts of things is for developers to
first step up and declare that they would like to support something
like this, and then figure out what they need to make it happen.
Ultimately being a volunteer-driven distro having people who want to
see something happen ends up being rate limiting.  Given the prices of
the hardware/etc I can't imagine that cost is going to be the
determining factor here.

So, if anybody who is a dev wants to step up and get involved I'd
recommend declaring your support for this as a starting measure.
Those involved can then set up a project, elect a lead, and work with
the Raspberry Pi folks as well as the Foundation to make it happen.

I'd love to see some kind of official involvement here, but either way
Gentoo being what it is I'm sure people will be fiddling around with
these as soon as they are available.  Official involvement might of
course give us more opportunity to get involved earlier.  As we've
already seen with ChromeOS, Gentoo is a great place to start if you
want to create an embedded experience that is a bit more
full-featured.

Rich

Re: [gentoo-project] Send a collaboration proposal to the Raspberry Pi team

[Michael Weber]

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On 10/21/2011 02:59 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> So, if anybody who is a dev wants to step up and get involved I'd
> recommend declaring your support for this as a starting measure.
here!

> I'd love to see some kind of official involvement here, but either way
> Gentoo being what it is I'm sure people will be fiddling around with
> these as soon as they are available.  Official involvement might of
> course give us more opportunity to get involved earlier.  As we've
> already seen with ChromeOS, Gentoo is a great place to start if you
> want to create an embedded experience that is a bit more
> full-featured.
My last arm fried and I'm eager to resume my arm involvement (arch testing,
home server, embedded fun) on this hardware.

Michael

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