[VOTE] Endorse the creation of OpenWrt One

[Christian Marangi]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 04:25:32PM +0100, John Crispin wrote:
> 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.
> 

+1 by me. I also wrote a mail to Daniel to an additional idea that can
be applied with this project. Wonder if it went to spam. I will add you
in Cc hoping it doesn't go in spam.

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