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Open Source Lighting System

stuart naylor — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:15:43 +0200

I have a design that is already at a prototype stage. I need help as the idea is to provide a system to provide modern residential lightging system. The whole industry is choked with IP, protocols and licensing agreements.

I have a design to provide a system that scales from residential to large commercial concerns. It provides a series of common building block components to enable a low cost net work via a protocol specifically designed for lighting control. Its main design goal is to provide cheap inteligent control systems with energy savings in excess of 80%.

I need help as my background is with embedded and network control protocols. Firstly chosing a GPL and protection or at least the ability to stop the design being bastardised for comercial gain needs to be discussed.

What I mean if the standard is released with a plethora of non compatible protocol modifictions then the design would be dead in the water.

Is there a open GPL that allows cottage industries to manufacture limited(generous) qty of the design but would require low bulk manufacturing licences. I am open to any sugestions.

In terms of communication I have a hybrid powerline that is unique in implementation as it cost requirements use low-end Lin_Bus microcontrollers to provide a hireachy of simple intelligence that scales to the future of modern intelligent lighting control.

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Creative and Innovative Business Solutions

Aleksandra Kalinowska — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:01:54 +0100

Dear Enthusiasts of Open Development,

INNOVATION is everyone's business and we all know that!
So why not share our knowledge, expertise, experiences, ideas and/or expectations about creative and innovative approaches to business services, already existing ones and not yet thought of...
Out of these awesome ideas new projects may come up and this is always worth talking about!

Looking forward to getting creative with you!

Yours sincerely,

Aleksandra Kalinowska
Founder/Owner/CEO

European Innovations Consulting
office@e-innovations.info

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Open Source Technical Documentation

Martin Brüggemann — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:07:22 +0100

Hi @ all,

for some time now, I have been thinking about the feasibility of "Open Source Technical Documentation" or, OSTD.

What made me think this could be a good idea was the observation, that manuals (for whatever product...) always contain some or all of the following content:
- About this manual
- Warranty issues
- Signs and Symbols used
- Various warnings, such as "caution, hot, do not touch" or the like.

My idea of OSTD would be to make such content publicly available, e.g. in DITA-XML or LaTex or ... file formats, so that the maintenance could be handled by a community.

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You might say "Already right in place, it's called GFDL".
My idea is not about the grassroot-style collaborative creation of new content, but about making available existing content.
I have seen manuals for OSS, e.g., Gimp.
These are written quite well, but unfortunately do not comply with any regulations, such as ANSI or DIN.
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Feedback welcome!

-Marty

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