| Summary: | ChrisWhite - Video Hardware Request | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Foundation | Reporter: | Chris White (RETIRED) <chriswhite> |
| Component: | Proposals | Assignee: | Gentoo Board of Trustees <trustees> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | finance-audit:2016/08/20 | ||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Attachments: |
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Description
Chris White (RETIRED)
2005-07-11 21:30:08 UTC
Created attachment 63198 [details]
video_hardware
Request Form.
Created attachment 63199 [details]
video_hardware
Line wraps plus slight spelling fix.
This has my vote of approval, with emphasis on the condition that the equipment is loaned, and if developer status changes the hardware is sent to someone else. Corey: That's the plan as outlined by the proposal. I vote yay since it's a relatively small amount. Ideally, we would get some sort of status report X months after the purchase to explain how it has directly led towards better video support in Gentoo. I'll happily vote "aye" as well, although I think we should also consider asking the manufacturers for sample versions of their products (in general, anyway, if not necessarily in this particular case). They'll probably say "no", since sending one widget to each distro could get really pricey, but I can't see where it would hurt to ask. I'm not against purchaising, but did somebody ever asked the vendor or a local dealer if they want to sponsor us with the hardware? As per request I'm currently contacting the vendors to see if a hardware donation is possible. If it is not, I will post a link to the email stating refusal. Ok, the card is going to need to be purchased. I wish I had a refusal email to go by, but it's been 1 full week without any form of vendor contact (not even a "we've recieved your email" sort of thing). I'm contacting logitech today, since I finally have a weekday off and time to call them :P. I'm fine with this...seems like it would be a worthwhile expendature. So yeah...I vote yes. It has my vote as well. Sorry for being tardy, but I vote yay as well. Please keep us up-to-date on how well the purchase has been! Ok, this is good to go. We'll have to do this from Netbank. Grant, can you send him a check for $62.58 please? Thanks, -C Check sent (or, to be more precise, entered into netbank's online bill pay system, so it may take 5-7 business days to receive it). Check recieved on 8-02-2005 PDT (GMT-7) for $62.58. Intention to deposit on 8-03-2005. Intention to purchase equipment on 8-04-2005, allowing the check to go through properly. Check deposited 08/03/2005. Webcam purchased on 08-03-2005 at 4:34AM (yah yah.. I know..) for $23.28. I'm going to have to wait till next friday for the video capture card unfortunately... it seems that newegg raised the price while I was waiting :|. It's now $41.99+$5 shipping :|. Corey, I need your information to stal* I mean.. send you a copy of the receipt for your records. Capture card purchased at $50.02, same time as the webcam. I just found out I had more money than I thought I did. So that takes care of that business, now I sit and wait. Ok updates, I got the webcam, it's b0rk3d, maybe I'll try hacking the stupid thing or wait till logitech gets back to me. the video card, as a contridiction, works damn nice. In fact, it has a remote so I can bonusly work on lirc stuff :P. So far I've got the fm tuner stuff working, all that took was a trip through /dev searching for device nodes until I found it. Now I'm gonna play around with a couple of radio apps in media-sound to see what it's like. I've already got a doc in my head :P. I also see the need for an lirc doc. That's something that we definately need. Also, Corey will get the reciepts at LWE today, as I will see him there (well, I saw him yesterday, but didn't know I was going to see him yesterday). Chris -- from what I overheard at LWE, my understanding is that the webcam is broken. Can you please advise us as to whether or not you've sent it back to the vendor/company for replacement? If you haven't yet sent it back, please advise on a date that you plan to have it sent back by. As far as the webcam, I'll probably re-imburse the foundation on my next paycheck. It's gonna cost me more time/money/etc to get RMA's and return this thing that it would be to just give the money back. I'll just have to hope for something better like this Logitech contact going through (still haven't heard back from them, I'll try later on today). (moving this bug to the Foundation component) Chris, what's the latest on the webcam? -C Chris, do you have an update on this? This should probably be closed if it relies on chris - he retired last year (but I think it was a quiet retirement - I've talked to him recently, and he said as much). No clue how to resolve this, so WORKSFORME works for me. ;] |