> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Tim B" <t...@engineering.selfip.org> > Date: 8 Nov 2013 17:57 > Subject: [Hampshire] Next meeting > To: <hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Hi guys. > > The next meeting will be next Saturday (16th November) at QinetiQ Haslar > from 2pm. For those who have not been before, the site is located on the > Haslar peninsula at the South of Gosport. The postcode is PO12 2AG. that's just 2 miles from where i live - it'd be silly not to attend :) hi, i'm luke leighton, software-libre advocate and i recently started an initiative to solve the problem of endemic GPL violations [1] by err... designing mass-volume retail modular hardware that will be pre-vetted to have copyright-compliant software on it before it's permitted to be sold. that sounds ever so extreme but it's a simple logical progression [2] obviously that's not the whole picture - a successful business has to be based around much more than "it mustn't be violating the GPL" :) from beginning over 2 years ago we now have our first CPU Card due to be launched very shortly, as well as the first "I/O Board" - a Micro-Engineeing Board [3], and i have the prototype of the first "real" product (a 7in tablet PCB [4]) which i'd love to show people if they'd be interested, and give a bit more about the background and the goals of the project. would that be of interest to people at all? l. [1] http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/9387.html [2] please ignore the really really annoying mis-quote of $15 for a board that costs over twice that just in components... http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/52054-british-company-looks-to-create-cheap-open-platforms/52054-british-company-looks-to-create-cheap-open-platforms?start=2 [3] http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/micro_engineering_board/ [4] http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/kde_tablet/news/ -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------