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Can small companies upstream? The story of and Industrial Camera manufacturer.
Ricardo Ribalda, PhD
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Small vs BIG
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Employees
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Budget
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Scope
Industrial Grade
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Commercial Grade
Problem6
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Starts easy
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Complicates...
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Complicates...
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Complicates...
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Light at the end of the tunnel….
Iván Alvarado / Reuters
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It works!
Benefits15
Access to Developers
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Reduce Maintership cost
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Reduce Maintership cost
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Training
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Recruiting
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Visibility
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FREE HUGS Features!
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Access to documentation
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Influence in APIs
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Drawbacks25
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CONTRIBUTE!
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Our experience- Linux Kernel: 200+ patches. Including a 9+ year old bugfix.
- U-boot: 48 patches. Maintainers of Virtex PowerPC boards.
- Yocto project: 60+patches. Supporting organization of the project.
- v4l-utils/libv4l2: 10 patches.
- Gstreamer: 5 patches accepted.
- Coreboot: 6 patches accepted.
- Flashrom: Support for the first board with EEprom memory.
- Gerbil, Clpeak, Video Lan Client, neard...
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Can small companies upstream? The story of and Industrial Camera manufacturer.
Ricardo Ribalda, PhD
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