[Desktop_architects] RE: [os_drivers] open drivers site status (Nov 28 - Dec 2)

Bastian, Waldo waldo.bastian at intel.com
Fri Dec 9 01:09:44 PST 2005


As addition for the Printer section, Till Kamppeter pointed out this
very useful article by Johannes Meixner on the SUSE/Novell website:

http://portal.suse.de/sdb/en/2003/11/jsmeix_print-info-for-manufacturers
.html
 
Cheers,
Waldo

>-----Original Message-----
>From: os_drivers-bounces at lists.osdl.org [mailto:os_drivers-
>bounces at lists.osdl.org] On Behalf Of Leann Ogasawara
>Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 5:07 PM
>To: os_drivers at lists.osdl.org
>Cc: desktop_architects at lists.osdl.org; dcl_discussion at lists.osdl.org;
>dtl_discussion at lists.osdl.org; cgl_discussion at lists.osdl.org
>Subject: [os_drivers] open drivers site status (Nov 28 - Dec 2)
>
>There is still continual updates and modifications being made to the
>open drivers site:
>
>http://developer.osdl.org/dev/opendrivers/
>
>We appreciate your thoughts, input, and feedback.  Keep it coming.
>
>Changes made this week:
>
>1) Added links to:
>      * kernel documentation directory
>      * new kernel HOWTO doc
>      * the linux kernel documentation project
>      * Linux USB driver database - thanks to Randy Dunlap for the link
>      * IEEE 1394 driver db - thanks to Randy Dunlap for the link
>      * HDAPS (Hard Disk Active Protection System) site - thanks to
John
>        Walicki for the link
>      * UBEK Fingerprint Reader information (including the spec) -
>        thanks to John Walicki for the link
>
>2) Created and populated a new navigation link for "Project Requests"
>      * This includes the Driver Matrix as well as a Distributed Driver
>        Test Farm along with details about each
project/request/proposal
>      * Please feel free to make a project proposal/request, we'll see
>        what we can do.
>
>3) Finished installing WikiMedia so that we can have wiki pages for
>certain areas of the website.  We're finishing the initial wiki page
>formatting and content display.
>
>4) We're also continuing work on the Driver Matrix project proposal.
>We're currently investigating the best tools, software, languages,
>design, etc. for the task.
>
>Plans for the upcoming weeks:
>
>1) Finish up wiki page formatting and content display.  Link to the
wiki
>pages from the main page.
>
>2) Continue work with the Driver Matrix project.  We'll begin by
posting
>a more in-depth detailed project proposal. ie tools, software,
>languages, design, etc. that we'd like to use for the project and ask
>for comments/feedback before moving on with actual development.
>Depending on the feedback, we'd like to put together a mock up
interface
>and backend database to verify the look and feel for users.  Then comes
>the fun of populating the database.
>
>3) Continue populating the site with material and information.
>
>Again, thanks to everyone for their feedback and involvement.  We'll
>continue to cross post to the lists for a little while longer and then
>move the discussions and updates strictly to the os_drivers mailing
>list.  If you are not on the discussion list and want to keep up to
date
>on this effort, please subscribe to:
>
>https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/os_drivers
>
>Thanks.





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