On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 04:13:30PM -0500, Tom Rondeau wrote: > "Everything's shiny, Cap'n. Not to fret" > > That was just a little something for the Firefly fans in the audience.
You've just received +10 geek cred plus a personal "favourite OSS project leader of the month" award from myself :) Since I *actually* started this thread (sheesh, I'm such a buzzkill somethimes) to motivate people to have a look at the GSoC page, I'd like to throw out a couple of points: - An 'application' does not have to be a perfect, end-user friendly product. It can be anything as simple as a grc file that lives in gnuradio-examples. If it just outputs stuff on the command line that's OK for me (if it does something cool). - Also, there's no obligation to maintain an application until the end of days. If there's a cool demo available, adding some 'evidence' to the project page (and this could simply be a page on CGRAN), such as pictures, or perhaps a Youtube video, is already enough to make GNU Radio look better as a backend. So, don't be discouraged! MB > No, we're not interested in that level of involvement, and I understand why > there is varying levels of friendliness and/or bitrot occurring in some of the > CGRAN projects when you don't have someone who's motivated in keeping it up to > date. Many of the projects out there were student projects and those students > then went and got jobs that are paying them to do other things. And I'm > incredibly grateful to those people who took the time to publish there work at > all, lest anyone think that I'm critical of the contributions made! > > > On the other hand, there are definite rewards that come from open source > development, many of which are monetary. There are an increasing number of > jobs > out there that are requesting GNU Radio experience. When you can point to your > published code for your resume, that could be pretty convincing. > > > I won't get into all of the ways that open source works as a model, even for > complex programs. I'll just point to Linux, GCC, Apache, and Python. There are > a variety of reasons people contribute to those projects, sames as GNU Radio. > > > Much application development for Gnu Radio is going on in the background, > on private projects that will never be published. So it's easy for people > to get the impression that Gnu Radio has no apps. That's just plain not > true. > > > And that's a really good point. There's lots of work that's been done out > there. My specific issue was that there's not necessarily a lot > "out-of-the-box" that people can point to and get working. A lot of the > high-quality apps that exist are not distributed (and as far as I've seen, no > one is breaking the GPL with what they are doing), so that model doesn't help > with the general outside perception that I was discussing in my post. -- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Communications Engineering Lab (CEL) Dipl.-Ing. Martin Braun Research Associate Kaiserstraße 12 Building 05.01 76131 Karlsruhe Phone: +49 721 608-43790 Fax: +49 721 608-46071 www.cel.kit.edu KIT -- University of the State of Baden-Württemberg and National Laboratory of the Helmholtz Association
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