[Openswan Users] Open Source Developer Contest - Assistance Request ( Openswan 2.x )

[Ted Kaczmarek]

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 20:50 -0700, Robert MacFarlan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> IBM is very interested in seeing an optimized port of Openswan 2.x to
> LinuxPPC64 being available. We're considering running a promotion to
> reward both the development of new applications and ports of existing
> projects like Openswan 2.x to LinuxPPC64. 
> 
> We're keen to operate in the spirit of the Linux/Open Source community
> and so want to defer to the maintainers of the various applications
> we've identified to judge the suitability of the port and to ensure
> the port was done in an acceptable manner.
> 
> We plan to work with a contest vendor and publish a list of
> applications that we'd like to see optimized, ported or written for
> LinuxPPC64. Our hope is this initiative will help more developers
> become familiar with working on LinuxPPC64, add some key applications
> to the overall "roster" of those available for LinuxPPC and, perhaps
> most importantly, ensure other developers and users have access to
> applications like Openswan 2.x if they're running on PPC hardware.
> 
> So with that preamble, I understand you are the maintainer for
> Openswan 2.x and as such I'm wondering if we can enlist your support
> in this process! :)
> 
> The process should, we hope, be pretty straight forward. A list of
> applications and their maintainers (including you and Openswan 2.x )
> will be created along with a list of entrants for each application. If
> you receive a PPC64 port of Openswan 2.x we'd ask you to compare the
> details of the submitter with those that have entered in the contest.
> (All this will be via a website that we'll give you access to) If you
> accept the port we'd ask that you notify the contest team - an email
> to an address to be provided later is all that is required.
> 
> To keep the playing field fair maintainers identified with a
> particular project won't be eligible to enter the contest in relation
> to that/their own project. Obviously you're welcome to work on others
> in the contest if you so wish though!
> 
> If you'd be interested in assisting with this effort please let me
> know and I can follow up with some more information.
> 
> All of this of course is subject to the published rules and
> regulations of the contest which will be published very shortly on the
> web.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Robert MacFarlan
> Strategist
> ISV Global Solutions Enablement
> IBM
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Robert MacFarlan
> Strategist
> ISV Global Solutions Enablement
> IBM
> 
The maintainers are not allowed to enter a contest in relation to
that/their own project.

Sure, we want OpenSource to work with OUR hardware, but we won't let it
benefit other hardware users.

Ted