A buddy of mine named Jason back in Oregon and I have come up with a great idea for a piece of open source software. We think we can have a lot of fun and maybe even make a medium sized splash in a small pond with our work. I am the technical side of the venture while he is the marketing and business side. We are going to put together product we think has value for a fairly large industry made up of a ton of mom and pop companies. They use technology, but their technology is expensive so they spend all their capital on the equipment that actually does the work that they do and have little left for things like quality control tools. Therefore, they have to go through quite a laborious process to assure quality in their products. We think we can put together a piece of open source software that will allow these people to automate their quality processes. They can use their existing computers, buy a few webcams, combine that with our software, and have a full blown, machine vision based, SPC tool. I am working on it now, but do not expect to have anything to show for my efforts before January.
