社区驱动

(translate by renna <renna.w at gmail dot com>, Yi <yi at qi-hardware dot com>)

由 于有着自由软件运动的强壮根基，Qi Hardware（Qi：气）了解软件能给设备带来生命，给产品添加不同的特性，并允许用户更改硬件以适用于一些特殊需求。我们深知我们并不了解所有的一 切：在公司的墙外，有着极大的智慧和创造力，这些智慧和创造力会在做出正确决定的艰难过程中引导我们。而这个过程正是由我们的客户驱动着，他们最了解他们 在设备中想要什么，并且会要求一个公开的对话。

我 们将创造机会加入到这个对话中，并积极寻求您的参与。Qi 的侧重点在于硬件生产过程中必经的商业交易，如供应商关系，NDAs，资金，物流，销售和市场。在软件方面我们则注重于提高低层软件栈的稳定性。社区越多 地参与到我们低层软件栈以上的开发，就越能促进我们往低层深入，将主要精力集中在半导体，引导程序和内核（Linux）上。我们将以硬件供应商的身份，奖 励和推广那些大有希望的项目。我们使用自由软件，如Trac问题跟踪系统， Git的版本控制 和 mailman 邮件列表等，使这一过程达到最大可能性的开放。

Community Driven

With strong roots in the free software movement Qi Hardware understands that software brings life to devices,adds character to otherwise empty shells and allows users to adapt hardware to their particular needs.We know we don’t know everything: the wisdom and creativity outside the walls of the company,therefore, guides us in the difficult process of making the right decisions.Our customers drive that process; they know best what they want in a device and demand an open dialog.We will create opportunities to join that dialog, and actively seek your participation.Qi focuses on business transactions that need to take place for hardware production: vendor relations, NDAs, financing, logistics, sales and marketing.Our own software effort focuses on the lowest layer of the software stack that needs improvement.The more community participation emerges above our efforts, the lower we can go, concentrating mainly on semiconductors, the bootloader and kernel (linux).We will use our position as a hardware supplier to reward and promote projects that we find promising.Standard free software tools are used to make the process as open as possible: Trac for issue tracking, git for version control and mailman for the mailing lists.