History & Name

[Tim Hutt <td...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I just discovered this project and had a go at building bleprph for the
nRF51-DK. It worked perfectly, which is very impressive! I'm just curious -
there's a lot of code in implementing a BLE stack. Where did it all come
from? Was it all written by volunteers, or are some of you employed to work
on it? Basically what is the history of the project. Also why the name
"mynewt"?

Cheers,

Tim

Re: History & Name

[Tim Hutt <td...@gmail.com>]

Thanks, very informative! You should add it to the website.

Cheers,

Tim

On 18 August 2016 at 19:27, Sterling Hughes <st...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>
> Welcome!
>
> The BLE stack was written primarily by Chris and Will, who work at Runtime
> (https://runtime.io/, with contributions and support from Johan at
> Intel.)   I’ll point out: as an Apache project, neither Runtime nor Intel
> “own” the direction of this project: it’s direction is decided by the
> committers (who happen to be majority Runtime at the moment: but we’re
> looking to expand that!)
>
> The project was started because we believed there needed to be a community
> driven open-source project out there that provided an operating system for
> these constrained embedded environments (cortex-m*, pic32, riscv5).  After
> having spent years at various product companies spending the majority of
> our time essentially building our own operating systems from pieces and
> parts.  We had looked at mbed, and weren’t happy with both the software
> design and community model — so we thought “let’s build one ourself.” :-)
>
> Mynewt is a play on the term “minute” (tiny.)   It also happens to be
> easily trademarkable/doesn’t infringe on people’s trademarks.  The project
> was originally called Stack, but that had all sorts of issues.
>
> The goal is to create a full operating system environment that makes it
> easy to build connected products — from an open source Bluetooth stack to
> secure boot loader and software upgrade.  You can see the original Mynewt
> proposal here: https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/MynewtProposal
>
> Best,
>
> sterling
>
>
> On 18 Aug 2016, at 3:19, Tim Hutt wrote:
>
> Hi,
>>
>> I just discovered this project and had a go at building bleprph for the
>> nRF51-DK. It worked perfectly, which is very impressive! I'm just curious
>> -
>> there's a lot of code in implementing a BLE stack. Where did it all come
>> from? Was it all written by volunteers, or are some of you employed to
>> work
>> on it? Basically what is the history of the project. Also why the name
>> "mynewt"?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Tim
>>
>

Re: History & Name

[Sterling Hughes <st...@apache.org>]

Hi Tim,

Welcome!

The BLE stack was written primarily by Chris and Will, who work at 
Runtime (https://runtime.io/, with contributions and support from Johan 
at Intel.)   I\u2019ll point out: as an Apache project, neither Runtime nor 
Intel \u201cown\u201d the direction of this project: it\u2019s direction is 
decided by the committers (who happen to be majority Runtime at the 
moment: but we\u2019re looking to expand that!)

The project was started because we believed there needed to be a 
community driven open-source project out there that provided an 
operating system for these constrained embedded environments (cortex-m*, 
pic32, riscv5).  After having spent years at various product companies 
spending the majority of our time essentially building our own operating 
systems from pieces and parts.  We had looked at mbed, and weren\u2019t 
happy with both the software design and community model \u2014 so we 
thought \u201clet\u2019s build one ourself.\u201d :-)

Mynewt is a play on the term \u201cminute\u201d (tiny.)   It also happens to 
be easily trademarkable/doesn\u2019t infringe on people\u2019s trademarks.  
The project was originally called Stack, but that had all sorts of 
issues.

The goal is to create a full operating system environment that makes it 
easy to build connected products \u2014 from an open source Bluetooth stack 
to secure boot loader and software upgrade.  You can see the original 
Mynewt proposal here: https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/MynewtProposal

Best,

sterling

On 18 Aug 2016, at 3:19, Tim Hutt wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just discovered this project and had a go at building bleprph for 
> the
> nRF51-DK. It worked perfectly, which is very impressive! I'm just 
> curious -
> there's a lot of code in implementing a BLE stack. Where did it all 
> come
> from? Was it all written by volunteers, or are some of you employed to 
> work
> on it? Basically what is the history of the project. Also why the name
> "mynewt"?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim