Re: [Chromium-announce] Commercial Support for the Chromium Projec

[John C. <cl...@cy...>]

Randy, this is some exciting news. When does the contract go into effect? 
Will development proceed in parallel between Stanford (I.e. Greg) and 
VA Linux? How will these efforts be coordinated or is Greg simply handing
over the reigns to VA Linux? Will there still be a mechanism for the 
community to provide enhancements/fixes  to Cr? What will that mechanism
look like?

thanks - jc

What will the relationship be between 
Randall Frank writes:
> 
> Hello,
> 	As I alluded to at the earlier kick-off meeting at
> Stanford, I would like to announce the following:
> 
>         Commercial Support for the Chromium Project
> 
>      As part of the ASCI VIEWS project PathForward funding,
> the DOE/tri-labs have signed a contract with VA Professional
> Services (VA Linux) to enhance and extend the Chromium
> framework.  This effort includes development of formal
> testing suites, additional features (e.g. multi-context
> support) and optimizations.  This 14 month, multi-person
> effort is to be lead by Brian Paul.  We believe that the
> addition of these dedicated resources to the current Open
> Source Chromium effort will aid in our ultimate goal of
> making available a distributed, scalable, parallel
> rendering framework robust enough to support "real-world"
> applications and extensible enough to encapsulate new
> parallel rendering research.
> 
> If you have any questions regarding this announcement,
> please contact Randy Frank <rj...@ll...>.
> 
> Thanks.
> rjf.
> 
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