TY - JOUR T1 - Establishing and Engaging an Active Open Source Ecosystem with the BeagleBoard JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2010 A1 - Jason Kridner AB - There should be little doubt that any given area of technology will eventually be occupied by open solutions. Rather, it is a question of "who" and "when." In mobile and embedded platforms, there is not a single dominant proprietary solution to displace, unlike desktop software. Instead, open software produces interface and compatibility experiences on par with proprietary software. At points where no proprietary solution is clearly differentiated from open solutions and the barriers to participation are kept low, open innovation thrives at the forefront of the technology. This article introduces BeagleBoard, a project that creates powerful, open, and embedded devices based on the BeagleBoard hardware, a low-cost, fan-less single-board computer. By lowering the barriers to participation and making commitments to support and sustain the architecture to preserve the innovation from that participation, BeagleBoard.org has built an active and growing community of hobbyists and professionals advancing the state of the art in low-power embedded computing, here and now. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/331 IS - March 2010 U1 - Texas Instruments Jason Kridner is the open platforms principal architect at Texas Instruments Incorporated. He is passionate about pervasive and accessible computing platforms. Kridner graduated from Texas A and M with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and was drawn by the allure of digital signal processing to TI in 1992. He began as a hardware developer, working on board, FPGA, and ASIC designs. Utilizing software experience prior to TI, Kridner transitioned to lead software development of low-power media software, audio processing, file systems, USB drivers, digital rights management, and video codecs. He now defines software architectures that enable a broad body of developers on TI's ARM and DSP based catalog processors. ER -