Re: [myhdl-list] Commercial support / training classes

[Christopher F. <chr...@gm...>]

On 4/4/11 10:19 PM, Christopher Lozinski wrote:
> Looks great.
>
> This is particularly useful for beginners, .... It is particularly
> useful if you want to move your design between Verilog and VHDL.
>
> redundant, how about especially convenient the second time.

Ok, change made and uploaded.

thx, chris

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> On 4/4/11 7:59 PM, Christopher Felton wrote:
>> I uploaded a new version 3 poster,
>> http://www.myhdl.org/doku.php/users:cfelton:fpgacamp:fpga_camp.  I added
>> credit to Jan Decaluwe for information / media used from the
>> www.myhdl.org site.  I also used Thomas Traber's plots from the projects
>> space.
>>
>> Thomas would you like credit mention on the poster as well?  The rest of
>> the plots were mine.
>>
>> .chris
>>
>> On 4/4/11 4:30 AM, Jan Decaluwe wrote:
>>> On 04/02/2011 09:01 PM, Christopher Lozinski wrote:
>>>>> As for training, the biggest issue is probably that
>>>>> there is no ready-to-use  material yet.
>>>> I totally agree.  Chris Felton has a hardware project that generates a
>>>> sound that we could
>>>> use as the basis for the project.   I think a number of us could try to
>>>> duplicate it, edit up the training
>>>> materials in some shared environment, like Google Docs, and before you
>>>> know it we would have a
>>>> training class.
>>>>
>>>>> And before that,
>>>>> the first issue is probably to determine what public we
>>>>> would be targetting and what kind of prelimary knowledge
>>>>> we should/can assume.
>>>> I think we should target the mass market of python developers who want
>>>> to tinker with FPGA's.
>>>> People like me.  For us, meaning experienced python developers, it is
>>>> obvious this is the way to go.  Trying to sell a hardware engineer on
>>>> dynamic binding is going against the flow.
>>> Ok, agreed.
>>>
>>>> Chris Felton recommends that we do a distributed class.  We would like
>>>> you Jan to do a general presentation on the software and theory, and
>>>> then dive into hands on application. I think we should be done in a
>>>> day.  I think the Silicon Valley standard is do it on a weekend.
>>>> Better yet, you might want to do a video presentation one Saturday,
>>>> people can read the web site during the week, and then come back the
>>>> following Saturday for a class room class, where the "experts" look over
>>>> your shoulder to help you.
>>>>
>>>> Next question can we use the content from the website for the flyers?
>>>> Since the back side of the flyer will sell the class, this is commercial
>>>> use, and needs your approval.
>>> I notice that the content licensing on the website is confusing -
>>> my idea was  to use the GNU free documentation license but the
>>> create commons license is still there, apprarenlty I forgot to
>>> remove it from the wiki template.
>>>
>>> I have not yet studied the details of these licenses.
>>>
>>> Note that the wiki content is contributed by several people.
>>> We probably should discuss the license we should use, so that
>>> everyone knows what he/she gives way. I think I would be in favour of
>>> license that requires honouring copyright notices (refering to the
>>> myhdl.org contributors) and that lets one use the content
>>> for any type of use. For the texts that I have written, you
>>> can use it along those lines.
>>>
>>>> And would you be willing to introduce the class?  How many hours of
>>>> presentation would you like to do?
>>> If someone drives the development of a class in a shared
>>> environment, I'm prepared to review and offer suggestions.
>>> After the material is ready, we can see for what part
>>> my involvement could be useful, and I certainly would
>>> be willing to contribute.
>>>
>>> My availability until April 24 is very limited though (milestone)
>>> and it will be on best effort basis.
>>>
>>> Jan
>>>
>>
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