RoundSparrow
03-01-2009, 09:46 AM
I saw this challenge getting little to no attention. I have been actively working on the Atheros AP81 (ar913x/ar910x chips) in consumer routers I could locate. So despite being constantly in touch with ar71xx platform and OpenWrt, I was shocked to stumble into this challenge. Nobody on the forums, IRC, was discussing this.
I am currently president of the Austin Texas Linux Users Group - and members were similarly surprised how this had gotten no attention. We had our meeting Thursday night. So I looked around Friday some more and found no mentions... and in the interest of Linux and the OpenWrt community - I spread the word.
Saturday, Slashdot front page story:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/28/200204
I tried hard as an outsider to field questions and try to steer people toward positive mutual OpenWrt and Ubiquiti objectives. I am always welcome to feedback and corrections.
(For the record, the Slashdot editors extensively rewrote the submission, including changing OpenWrt to "Open-WRT". Such is the press ;) )
A similar thread was on Linux.Reddit.com page:
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/80xdz/openwrt_200000_cash_prize_for_open_source_router/
I again encourage anyone knowledgeable of the challenge to publicly correct any mistakes or misinformation.
I think at minimum this challenge legacy should serve that it helped promote a great Linux distribution (OpenWrt). The recent Kamikaze 8.09 release did not get a lot of outside attention - and I feel this challenge did Linux router community as a whole a marketing and promotional service.
I have even encouraged the concept that we try to get additional router companies to coattail this contest and offer additional prizes. Suggestion would be that they offer $25,000 and independently evaluate the submissions and reward the prize to who they think is best. Would be a very open way of encouraging more participation in the interest of OpenWrt. Any ideas on how to pursuit this are welcome.
I am currently president of the Austin Texas Linux Users Group - and members were similarly surprised how this had gotten no attention. We had our meeting Thursday night. So I looked around Friday some more and found no mentions... and in the interest of Linux and the OpenWrt community - I spread the word.
Saturday, Slashdot front page story:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/28/200204
I tried hard as an outsider to field questions and try to steer people toward positive mutual OpenWrt and Ubiquiti objectives. I am always welcome to feedback and corrections.
(For the record, the Slashdot editors extensively rewrote the submission, including changing OpenWrt to "Open-WRT". Such is the press ;) )
A similar thread was on Linux.Reddit.com page:
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/80xdz/openwrt_200000_cash_prize_for_open_source_router/
I again encourage anyone knowledgeable of the challenge to publicly correct any mistakes or misinformation.
I think at minimum this challenge legacy should serve that it helped promote a great Linux distribution (OpenWrt). The recent Kamikaze 8.09 release did not get a lot of outside attention - and I feel this challenge did Linux router community as a whole a marketing and promotional service.
I have even encouraged the concept that we try to get additional router companies to coattail this contest and offer additional prizes. Suggestion would be that they offer $25,000 and independently evaluate the submissions and reward the prize to who they think is best. Would be a very open way of encouraging more participation in the interest of OpenWrt. Any ideas on how to pursuit this are welcome.
