Hawkboard/earlyadopter

Introduction

  * What is hawkboard.org ?
    Hawkboard.org is a Open Community Portal for OMAP L 138 ( ARM 9 and C674x Floating Point DSP) Applications

  * What is hawkboard ?
    A OMAP L 138 based Open Platform designed by a small team of engineers @ Innovate Solutions

  * What is Early Adopter Program ?
    Honestly, this is an exercise to educate the community on OMAP L 138 offerings and technology

  * Who can participate ?
    Passionate Open Community members, 
    Technologists interested in leveraging the OMAP L 138 technology and developing innovative applications,
    Team members who would want to drive and educate the community on the correct or right usage of the platform.

  * Last day for submissions?
    November 30th 2009

  * When will I receive the board if selected?
    By Dec 15th 2009

  * What is the selection Criteria ?
    A group of Community members will be identified as Judges to review the proposals. The judges will choose the early adopters

  * What after winning a board ?
    The Board is all yours, we look forward to the execution of your proposed solution. 

  * Should the solution be open ?
    Yes, after or while execution of the project you are requested to give the details to make this a successful open source program

Proposals

<below is a template / example, please keep the heading and use the same for your proposals>

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Linux Driver Development for HawkBoard Peripherals

• Title  : Driver Development

• Short project description:
  • The project will add the Linux driver support, following are the drivers I will be interested in developing and maintaining
    • VGA
    • Composite In

• Homepage: http://hawkboard.wordpress.com

• Why not on other board ?:
  • Hawkboard is a open community platform
  • My contributions will be leveraged by global open community
  • My efforts will be recognized and appreciated by world wide hawk, beagle, OMAP, Davinci communities.

• Duration: 3 months

• Expected results:
  • VGA and Composite drivers will be implemented and submitted to davinci mailing list for kernel.org submissions.
  • Wiki page to describe the entire development method here ...

• Contact: khasim[at]beagleboard[.]org

• Will you support hawkboard.org initiative ? How :
  • By creating wiki's of my understanding
  • By being on mailing lists and IRC and try to answer the questions

• One thing you like about this platform or initiative:
  • Open Platform

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SIP client demo

• Title  : SIP client on hawkboard

• Short project description:
  • Get a SIP client working (linphone), maybe use DSP to off-load audio processing.
    • Use audio, network and DSP.
    • Maybe use video later-on.

• Homepage: http://pmeerw.net (nothing hawkboard specific there)

• Why not on other board ?:
  • Have some experience with beagleboard, but hawkboard seems to have more complete interfaces.
  • Cheap platform, DSP.

• Duration: maybe one to three month, depending on scope (DSP, video).

• Expected results:
  • Audio and network working.
  • Maybe extend user-interface later-on using VGA, video in.

• Contact: pmeerw@pmeerw.net

• Will you support hawkboard.org initiative ? How :
  • Contribute as open source. Provide demonstration image.

• One thing you like about this platform or initiative:
  • Seems promising given beagleboard's success; visibility.

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Hawk Media Server

• Title  : Hawk Media Server

• Short project description: This project aims at achieving the following:
  • A media server for homes, that will be a central repository for all media - video/ audio/ pictures and documents
  • Long term goals:
    • Subject to feasibility, Probably a PVR using video in or video over IP
    • A video surveillance application in conjunction with leopard board, where the media server can be used for recording surveillance videos.

• Homepage: http://www.firstpenguin.org/projects/HawkMediaServer (under construction)

• Why not on other board ?:
  • Hawk has a SATA interface, ideal to interface with internal hard disks.
  • Cheaper than Beagleboard

• Duration: Three months

• Expected results:
  • A ready to install image that others can use to configure Hawk as a media server
  • All details shared up on a wiki

• Contact: sradhakrishna@firstpenugin.org

• Will you support hawkboard.org initiative ? How? :
  • Would like to provide any help with developing drivers or maintaining uboot/ kernel.

• One thing you like about this platform or initiative:
  • Open Source
  • A platform for hobbyists to try out new ideas in a quick manner

Next topic

• Title  :

• Short project description:
  • Description
    • x
    • y

• Homepage: Your Link

• Why not on other board ?:
  • reason 1
  • reason 2

• Duration: time

• Expected results:
  • output 1
  • output 2

• Contact: mail ID

• Will you support hawkboard.org initiative ? How :
  • 1
  • 2

• One thing you like about this platform or initiative:
  • 1