Press Release: For release April 21, 2008

Neuros, in partnership with Texas Instruments, is pleased to announce the creation of a new bounty program for its Open Internet Television HDPlatform. Patterned off Neuros’ previous successes with community bounties and the Google Summer of Code Program, TI and Neuros have partnered to support the free software developer community with a six month phased program that will release a host of bounties to build and optimize this new platform.

Come join us in building the Neuros Embedded Hardware Module. Let's make this the best open-source, video-focused, Internet enabled media center platform available!

Update Apr-14: due to confusion on this bounty, we have split it into two.

Bounty 1401: Add and optimize NTFS support to the OSD2.0 platform.
Amount: $3,000
Code due date¹: 30-May-2008

Bounty 1402: Add and optimize SD, SDHC, and MMC support to the OSD2.0 platform.
Amount: $2,000
Code due date¹: 30-May-2008

Bounty 1301: USB host hub support.
Amount: $5,000
Code due date¹: 30-May-2008
This bounty has been completed.

Bounty 1302: USB WiFi dongle support.
Amount: $3,000
Code due date¹: 30-May-2008

Bounty 1303: USB Mass-storage hotplug and multi-partition support.
Amount: $2,000
Code due date¹: 30-May-2008

¹ Tentative. Please indicate in your proposal what you believe the code due date should be.

Bounty 1201: Build DaVinci HD framebuffer and V4L2 support
Amount: $4,000
Code due date¹: 16-May-2008

Bounty 1202: FFMPEG VLC DaVinci porting and optimization with audio codec support for Ogg/WMA/AC3/AAC/FLAC/MP3
Amount: $6,000
Code due date¹: 30-May-2008

¹ Tentative. Please indicate in your proposal what you believe the code due date should be.

Please read about the TI-Neuros Bounty program to learn more.

We are pleased to announce the availability of two bounties for our OSD community that will help us bring the OSD20 development environment up and running. To apply please submit the form below. For questions, feel free to submit the form below or head to the #neuros channel on IRC or the dev mailing list.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Bounty 1101: OSD20 build system

Once again, it's time for Cash Money for you!
We need an enterprizing Neuros hacker to allow ordering pizzas directly from the OSD. You can port Pizza on Demand from our friends over at AwkwardTV, but you don't have to. To claim the prize you simply have to allow ordering a pizza from Domino's or Jimmy John's directly from the OSD using the remote. Use the emerging QT Based firmware. That reminds me, we desperately need an OdNT posting on that. Nero , Crweb can someone post something on that? Anyone? Anything? Please?

If you are looking for detailed rules, regulations and pages of legal boilerplate to wade through etc, well this contest is not for you. If you want some loose and vague idea of what's going on, look here . Best place for questions is probably #neuros on freenode.net or here if you don't have an IRC client handy.

Neuros and DVRupgrade have partnered to bring hackers two new cash money bounties to allow an OSD to synchronize with TiVo's electronic programming guide.

The OSD is primarily used to consolidate all your DVDs and VHS tapes into one box, but, due in large part to it being open source, more adventuresome users are already benefiting from its ability to do so much more (like record live TV, stream YouTube to your TV and music to your stereo, play photo slide shows on TV). And now you can get paid to help it do even more.

from the DVRupgrade forums Posting (click for details)

"People love TiVo for its robust program guide and related features, and people love the OSD for the portability of its recordings. So, we've come up with a bounty for a project that combines the best of both devices. Namely for the OSD to piggyback on the TiVo's recording schedule and make portable MPEG-4 recordings of those shows that you choose. It's essentially like having TiVo simultaneously record onto a portable device at the same time that its recording to its hard drive. With no file transfer or conversion, you could have all your favorite shows automatically on your laptop, iPod, iPhone, Blackberry or whatever portable device you prefer. Ultimately, this functionality would be perfect for commuters, road-warriors or anyone that spends their days on the go."

I believe the significance of these bounties goes well beyond the immediate benefits of these specific features.

Thanks to the Google Summer of Code Program, Your cash money prize for integrating XMMS2 into the OSD has gone waay up.  XMMS posted student application, and check out the

Neuros is offering "Cash Money" FastBounties for the launch of our new Neuros OSD; There are seven "FastBounty" projects: