[cip-dev] Use cases behind CIP story

[agustin.benito@codethink.co.uk (Agustin Benito Bethencourt)]

Hi,

CIP is doing a significant effort to be present in many events to 
explain what are the motivations and goals of the group. The technical 
activity is about to start so there is very little to show and it will 
be the case for some time.

What can we focus on the coming months from the communication point of view?

I think there is a huge value in advertising the use cases that justify 
the commitment from companies like Toshiba, Hitachi and Siemens in CIP.

Some of those use cases are completely unknown for a wide range of 
developers, even many of those who are "Open Source veterans".

By exposing some of the challenges involved in those use cases CIP would 
not just provide a meaningful inside about our environment but also the 
opportunity to have a fruitful conversation with many of those engineers 
who might think that CIP idea of a Super Long Term Support kernel 
(system) is "anti-cultural".

So I would like to encourage CIP main drivers to provide and advertise 
some of those unique use cases. I find them extremely interesting. I 
hope many others will too.

Best Regards
-- 
Agustin Benito Bethencourt
Principal Consultant - FOSS at Codethink
agustin.benito at codethink.co.uk