[VOTE] Endorse the creation of OpenWrt One

[John Crispin]

OpenWrt One will be a wireless networking device designed for free and 
open source software enthusiasts, encouraging people to tinker with and 
learn about embedded development and Linux networking.

OpenWrt One is intended to benefit OpenWrt as the project shall receive 
a share of the revenue for each unit sold.

Our intent is to build a unit with OpenWrt friendly hardware 
specifications which makes it well supportable and serves as a potential 
role model for manufacturers - it will receive the same level of 
community support as other OpenWrt capable devices, there will be no 
priority tier, no paid support channels and no dedicated OpenWrt 
flavours or similar. The device support shall be fully upstreamed into 
vanilla OpenWrt.

OpenWrt One is a private voluntary initiative led by me (John Crispin). 
The initial R&D cost for the ODM design is privately paid for by me, 
without utilising any OpenWrt funds. I will not be making any profit 
from this. To reduce liabilities, time to market and burden on 
individual developers or the project as a whole, I propose to co-develop 
the OpenWrt One PCB together with the ODM behind the Banana Pi 
community. The OpenWrt One will reuse design aspects as well as the form 
factor of existing Banana Pi PCBs and enclosures.


  OpenWrt One is *not* intended to be:
   - A contender for commercial off-the-shelf Routers or APs.
   - A wired router achieving gigabit NAT speeds
   - A bleeding edge Wi-Fi 6e/7 access point
   - A Network Attached Storage device
   - A high speed ethernet switch

The "One" rather aims to be:
   - As open as possible and fully compliant with all copyleft and other 
FOSS licenses it uses
   - An educational platform for tinkering with/learning about open 
hardware and Linux
   - A way to donate to the OpenWrt project while receiving a nice 
gadget in return
   - Provide expansibility through mikroBUS, GPIOs and PCI/e M.2
   - Software unbrickable and easily recoverable without additional means
   - The satisfaction of achieving an overdue personal objective


By starting this vote, I am asking fellow developers of the OpenWrt 
project to:
   a) Endorse the usage and mention of the OpenWrt trademark and logo 
for the OpenWrt One hardware device, allowing the ODM to print the 
OpenWrt logo on the silk screen and enclosures as well as branding the 
resulting device "OpenWrt One" and marketing it as such. Software 
Freedom Conservancy (SFC) agreed to take care of the legal agreement 
with the ODM if the vote succeeds.
   b) Authorise SFC, Inc. to register an IEEE MAC Address Block Large 
(MA-L) on behalf of OpenWrt. The required one-time payment will be 
covered by private, non-project funds.
   c) Agree that SFC will receive a percentage of the revenue of each 
unit sold by the ODM, on behalf of OpenWrt with the received funds being 
directed towards the OpenWrt project under the existing fiscal agreement 
in order to cover future expenses. Right now I am aiming for a share of 
around 10% with an expected price tag of around 100$ per unit.


The vote shall be concluded within 10 days.

In case the vote succeeds, the next steps will be:
  - Finalise the hardware design with the silicon vendor (MediaTek) and 
ODM (Banana Pi) - expected to take 4-8 weeks
  - Receive engineering samples (15 units) and distribute them to 
interested parties
  - Provide samples to SFC for copyleft/FOSS license compliance 
verification.
  - Once the engineering samples are confirmed to be working, the ODM 
will start producing the initial batch of units

Please understand that until the vote succeeds I do not have the 
mandate/authority to further any discussions with the involved entities 
on behalf of OpenWrt. Final technical and legal details will be 
clarified once the consent is given through this vote.

     John