[yocto-ab] YP Advisory Board: April meeting minutes & new member info

[Otavio Salvador]

Hello Philip,

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Philip Balister <philip at balister.org> wrote:
> On 04/18/2016 01:05 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Erway, Tracey M
>> <tracey.m.erway at intel.com> wrote:
>>> The purpose of upping the dues was to cover this year's shortfall.  We need a solution that raises funds in the immediate timeframe, so future guidelines will not address the issue.
>>> /t
>>
>> Raising the dues may make it worse. We can see members not renewing
>> due the raise of the cost and it can become a real nightmare.
>>
>> I think instead of raising it, we try to find new members. Otherwise
>> we reevaluate our roadmap to make it fit in our budget.
>
> Otavio, OSS Systems is definitely a leading technical contributor and is
> showing leadership for small companies by being a member of the Yocto
> Project.
>
> What I struggle with is that OpenEmbedded is providing tremendous value
> to the embedded Linux community, but until the arrival of the Yocto
> Project, we received very little back from the user base. Now, as the
> user base explodes, the developers load increases. These are issues we
> are struggling with.
>
> I see two key issues:
>
> 1) Expanding the developer base.
> 2) Spreading the financial costs of the project across the user base.

Absolutely. I am not saying we shouldn't revise the costs or member
fees but we ought to avoid putting all this on top of current members.
Current members were critical to provide resources and the need
environment for all those changes to happen and deserves some kind of
pride for it.

I think the members size ought to influence where the member need to
sign in, as well as the fee cost, but more important is to grow the
members number. Doing that we get new energy inside of the project and
new resources. I think we are not being good in finding new members,
and we are not being good and getting from current members more
development resources commitment.

Intel and Wind River has been in the core development, of the project,
however we need new members to get into this as well. Several members
rarely send patches to the core and this is surprising...

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Otavio Salvador                             O.S. Systems
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