| 19 Jan 2017 |
 er1n | @xj9 a stupid-simple framebuffer that can plug into Linux would probably be a good place to start; imo we already have enough on our plates w/ just a CPU | 02:14:39 |
 xj9 | good point | 02:37:50 |
|  @cow2001:matrix.org joined the room. | 08:20:24 |
| xj9 | RISC-V seems like the best option at the moment, unless we want to spend a lot of time modernizing SPARC | 16:03:18 |
| xj9 | er1n you seem like you know your stuff as far as hardware goes. do you want to lead on the board design? i can do OSdev or any other software work we need. | 16:21:13 |
| xj9 | i purchased sophia-project.us | 16:35:33 |
| xj9 | i will put the site up within the next few days | 16:37:08 |
| er1n | Sure! I'd be happy to lead board design. | 19:06:51 |
| xj9 | moce | 19:35:27 |
| 20 Jan 2017 |
|  @JohnWick:matrix.org joined the room. | 01:14:03 |
| @JohnWick:matrix.org | I keep thinking of Alpha testers. We could get people that use Windows to test this product, once it's mostly made. See if we can make it common-man friendly. Too challenging? | 01:16:38 |
| xj9 | windows? why? | 01:20:25 |
| xj9 | that's proprietary software | 01:20:49 |
| xj9 | also note that we aren't fabbing x86 | 01:21:51 |
| @JohnWick:matrix.org | Yes. And I'm wondering how user-friendly we/you all could make this product. | 01:22:01 |
| @JohnWick:matrix.org | Could an idiot operate it? | 01:23:39 |
| xj9 | my goal is that it Just Works | 01:23:51 |
| @JohnWick:matrix.org | Understood. | 01:23:58 |
| xj9 | free software isn't intrinsically hard to use, but the community doesn't pay a lot of attention to UI/UX | 01:24:35 |
| xj9 | UI/UX is my life. | 01:24:48 |
| xj9 | as in, it pays my bills | 01:25:08 |
| @JohnWick:matrix.org | My tech skills are pretty outdated. To the point of needing to go back to college. Yet I'm sitting here wondering how fast I could learn this product. | 01:27:40 |
| xj9 | all of the core components are already there. we only need to liberate the hardware and create an intuitive user experience. | 01:28:16 |
| xj9 | Linux has excellent hardware support, a large library of software, and all of the developer tools you could want | 01:29:21 |
| @JohnWick:matrix.org | I'm struggling to find a way my people could/would help. There's money, that's a given, but my son is fighting me tooth and nail on that. | 01:30:03 |
| @JohnWick:matrix.org | He got pretty pissed I tried to volunteer his time, too. | 01:30:32 |
| xj9 | right now our focus is on hardware and os dev | 01:30:43 |
| xj9 | later we will need application developers | 01:31:12 |
| xj9 | last of all investors to build the fab pipeline | 01:31:39 |
| xj9 | ^^ the last bit is really, really expensive | 01:32:13 |
