[Discuss] Google the game changer?

Marketply contact at marketply.org
Fri Nov 29 09:04:17 UTC 2013


Google Summer of Code
<http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/about_page>
pays students to write code for open source projects. Thus increasing the pool
of people introduced to open source while at the same time improving the health
of open source.

Android has helped to get open source operating systems into people's hands (and
smart handhelds) globally.

Project Ara
<http://motorola-blog.blogspot.com/2013/10/goodbye-sticky-hello-ara.html> could
similarly help propel the global reach of the open source hardware movement:

Project Ara is developing a free, open hardware platform for creating highly
modular smartphones. We want to do for hardware what the Android platform has
done for software: create a vibrant third-party developer ecosystem, lower the
barriers to entry, increase the pace of innovation, and substantially compress
development timelines.

Aside: the next logical progression could be a Motorola Summer of Hardware.

How do you feel about this and who else do you see as a game changer for the
rise of open source hardware?

Marino Hernandez
(just a founder of Marketply <http://www.marketply.org> )
203-429-4205
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