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Originally Posted by Sirtel
"Calibre" is mostly Kovid, and there are limits to what one person has the time and energy to do. There are a few contributors, but Kovid does the main programming work. Calibre is not a team effort in the sense that a room full of programmers is working on it, and could spare a couple to work on other things.
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I didn't realise that calibre is quite so much a one-man band. It totally makes sense why he wouldn't want to take on further commitments.
Though if resources and time is so limited it might be an idea to approach the developers of Quill OS with a partnership proposal. They have a working relationship with Pine64 and have previously developed an OS for Kobo e-readers. Maybe they could create and maintain calibre OS.
Or perhaps ask the developers of Koreader. Maybe suggest a rebrand of Koreader as calibre OS. The OS pre-installed on a Pine64 e-reader.
I suspect that if Pine64 had the prospect of selling a well-promoted* e-reader to calibre's 3 million users they would be interested in developing the hardware and perhaps also supporting the development of the software. They may also offer a fixed % from each sale for the use of the calibre brand. Which could support the long-term development of calibre desktop, server and OS.
It would be especially neat if the hardware and software design could be directed with input from calibre users.
Probably pie-in-the-sky nonsense but surely worth reaching out with an email or two.
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Promotion via a pop-up in new installs and updates of calibre desktop. With one of those 'don't show me this again' option boxes.