[hpsdr] TAPR

[Ahti Aintila]

Eric,

Very good decision! Well done.
Thank you for all your selfless activity.

73, Ahti OH2RZ


On 08/06/06, Eric Ellison <ecellison at comcast.net> wrote:
> Ahti
>
> Several weeks ago a few of the project leaders working on boards which have
> been pretty much designed, and I got together to brainstorm how we could
> advance to the future, with an open source hardware and software scenario
> and how we could finance the various projects, beyond just 'board' only,
> projects, like the Atlas board.
>
> About a week ago, Lyle put us in touch with the Directors and Officers of
> TAPR, still in a small group to discuss what was do-able. TAPR is an obvious
> choice, since their 'objectives' in R&D and DCC, have been well known for
> many years. Also as mentioned in the announcement, they have a storefront,
> and resources to provide state of the art products at virtually no mark-up
> beyond costs. They are a non-profit organization, dedicated to advancing the
> state of the art in digital communications. HPSDR although 'without formal
> orgainzation' has been dedicated to almost the same goals, but without
> financial and organizational resources. Some of the project leaders are
> prominent TAPR leaders also.
>
> It was not too difficult to make a decision, based on Atlas, Janus and Ozy
> orders alone, that the HPSDR group just does not have the resources to
> produce the end product. Group buys, without even knowing final cost would
> be a nightmare for our HPSDR group.
>
> TAPR requested very little in return.
>
> Briefly they would like more people to run for the 3 upcoming vacant
> positions on the Board of Directors. I will be at least volunteering my
> willingness to run, however, it is a nominated position. I would suggest
> that HPSDR List folks here also consider doing that.
>
> They are looking for people from this the HPSDR list, to help with the
> process to getting from alpha to product, that they can offer. It might be
> putting kits together, or mailing or other. We will have to see how that
> goes, and how many might volunteer to do some behind the scenes work. I will
> also be one of these volunteers and probably coordinate things between HPSDR
> group and TAPR.
>
> They are also interested in publications on this project, I think that means
> in any publication, however, the Packet Status Register and Papers at the
> DCC in September are also obvious choices.
>
> The last request, basically was that we realize that they have a
> responsibility to their membership when investing in this project.
>
> My request in return, was that this be an association between HPSDR group as
> it exists now, with the HPSDR Reflector, and all the donated resources
> (Wiki, Web Page, etc. remain as a 'functional' organization. Whatever TAPR
> offers in the way of 'purchases' will be HPSDR - TAPR projects. Call it a
> 'simple form' of branding and association.
>
> The current project leaders, myself, and TAPR representatives to the
> discussion group all agreed. The first product of that agreement is the
> Atlas Kit of Parts. Expect to see additional offerings to appear and be
> announced in the near future.
>
> In the meantime, even though TAPR will probably offer the Ozy and Janus and
> re-run of the Atlas for sale in the future, I am going to keep the HAMSDR
> 'order page' open for those three products. The Ozy and Janus 'orders' give
> a fair estimation of interest as TAPR approaches these product decisions.
>
> Of course, all of the Gerbers and files, and as far as I know, software will
> always be 'open source'. So anyone can download and execute anything they
> wish to do with the Intellectual Property. Although protected now by
> individual copyright notices, this has been done so that HPSDR does not lose
> the rights to their own property. Other methods of doing this will be
> discussed in the future.
>
> I think this is a 'Win-Win' all the way around.
>
> Thanks!
> Eric
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hpsdr-bounces at hpsdr.org [mailto:hpsdr-bounces at hpsdr.org] On Behalf Of
> Ahti Aintila
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 2:54 PM
> To: HPSDR List
> Subject: [hpsdr] TAPR
>
> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
>
> All,
>
> TAPR is joining forces with the HPSDR group:
> <http://www.tapr.org/kits_atlas.html>
>
> Any more details and background?
>
> 73, Ahti OH2RZ
> _______________________________________________
> HPSDR Discussion List
> To post msg: hpsdr at hpsdr.org
> Subscription help: http://lists.hpsdr.org/listinfo.cgi/hpsdr-hpsdr.org
> HPSDR web page: http://hpsdr.org
> Archives: http://lists.hpsdr.org/pipermail/hpsdr-hpsdr.org/
>
>

 1149738083.0