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Can small companies upstream? The story of and Industrial Camera manufacturer.

Ricardo Ribalda, PhD

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Small vs BIG

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Employees

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Budget

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Scope

Industrial Grade

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Commercial Grade

Problem6

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Starts easy

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Complicates...

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Complicates...

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Complicates...

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Light at the end of the tunnel….

Iván Alvarado / Reuters

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It works!

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Benefits15

Access to Developers

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Reduce Maintership cost

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Reduce Maintership cost

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Training

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Recruiting

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Visibility

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FREE HUGS Features!

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Access to documentation

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Influence in APIs

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Drawbacks25

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CONTRIBUTE!

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Our experience- Linux Kernel: 200+ patches. Including a 9+ year old bugfix.

- U-boot: 48 patches. Maintainers of Virtex PowerPC boards.

- Yocto project: 60+patches. Supporting organization of the project.

- v4l-utils/libv4l2: 10 patches.

- Gstreamer: 5 patches accepted.

- Coreboot: 6 patches accepted.

- Flashrom: Support for the first board with EEprom memory.

- Gerbil, Clpeak, Video Lan Client, neard...

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Can small companies upstream? The story of and Industrial Camera manufacturer.

Ricardo Ribalda, PhD

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