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Hello All,
I see there are some concerns. Some people are afraid of changes, others see 
them as an opportunity for improvement. Without changes there would be no 
progress.

I think it would be unwise to jump to conclusions. Therefore my intention is 
to wait for feedback from companies, and see what their interests are and 
what kind of proposals they have. Based on that I will select a company that 
will bring the most benefits to OpenCores community. Until I receive some 
solid feedback and see in what direction their proposals are going, I think 
any discussion based on speculation will do more harm than good.

regards
Damjan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Damjan Lampret" <damjanl@o...>
To: "Discussion list about free open source IP cores" <cores@o...>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 12:31 PM
Subject: [oc] The next step in OpenCores evolution

> For your information
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> When I started OpenCores back in 1999, I didn't think it would become as 
> popular as it is. These days it has on average 80,000 different visitors 
> every month and 7.5M web hits. More than 10,000 companies have downloaded 
> from OpenCores. However it is time to take OpenCores to a new level, from 
> which both users and developers would benefit.
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> It is time for some major change. My intention is to sell the web site to 
> an industry leader in semiconductor or EDA industry. The idea is to find a 
> strategic partner, whose core business is not competing with OpenCores 
> activities. This strategic partner should be in the right business so that 
> the partnership with OpenCores would create a synergy effect from which 
> both the partner company and OpenCores would benefit.
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> This could mean a number of benefits for OpenCores developers. Partnership 
> with an ASIC vendor or a semiconductor foundry could enable developers to 
> prototype/silicon prove IP in silicon, while partnership with an EDA 
> company could provide access to the latest EDA semiconductor tools. 
> Partnership with an FPGA vendor could mean access to FPGA boards and 
> tools.
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> Partner company should also invest certain amount of funds to make 
> OpenCores more professional organization, resulting in new business models 
> for developers and users. For example, that developers could choose a 
> business model for distribution of their IP and get financial 
> compensation. Imagine that developers would be able to put their IP onto 
> silicon MPW every six months - users would see higher value in such IP and 
> be willing to pay for such IP - developers getting financial compensation 
> would in return be able to put more time into development. You can see 
> that this is a self sustainable model. Of course this is just one 
> example - there are many other ideas but they all require a serious 
> partner with motivation and financial backing. An industry leader would be 
> a perfect fit.
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> The benefits for the users would come from the fact that developers would 
> have access to new services and resources, which means positive 
> consequences for the quality of IP.
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> The next step is to get proposals from industry leaders and see what are 
> their interests. There is going to be a press release about this - however 
> if you happen to work for a company, such as an ASIC vendor, foundry, EDA 
> vendor or FPGA vendor, you are welcome to get in contact by emailing 
> partnership@o....
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> kind regards,
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> Damjan Lampret
>
> Founder OpenCores.org
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