[Introductions] forkinspoonz:
Just a bit about my experience here, I had an account a long time ago that I don't have the email address for, but its been ages since I used it anyways. Thanks for all the work you collectively put into everything. I have been a noob since roughly 2018, and I have learned so much just traversing this site and reading. You guys are like the dream of a dev team! I am posting this because I figure you don't get enough praise for the countless hours put into helping ppl learn Android and escape the mediocrity of base os-sandboxing and otherwise relentless adware. If I had large amounts of extra coin I'd send donations of some sorts your way, but I thought I'd do something a bit different this time and offer some well paid work for anyone who can help me engineer something using an Android base at multiple layers of machine controls and interaction. The project is going to be open source, but I'm not in the business of not paying people for good work as I'm a worker too and I hate that ****.

THE project is open ended and has no definitive start or end date as of yet. I'm in the process of DESIGN right now, and the last time that I did this it was a much smaller project I worked on with a minimal budget. This project is much larger and has plenty of room for all personality types who are keen on getting paid to do something you love.

What is the project?

Open source robotic farming for large scale agriculture. The pinch is on with food worldwide and food security is a issue I'm not comfortable with ignoring at all. Several years ago we started with farmbot.org and the team there has done a wonderful job at making it perfect for the hobby gardening. But we have some serious issues on the table that cannot be solved with conventional farming.

How does Android fit in?

I like reusing perfectly good equipment. And there are anticipated to be at very least 18-20 mini computers necessary to communicate between eachother and display info or have a means of exchange to display data in real time. There are camera systems and comprehensive steams of sensor data, switches and I prefer Android over scada because at least Android is a bit more secure and can host a real varietyof different solutions.

What's the job and how will I get paid.

THERE ARE SEVERAL JOBS WHICH WILL NEED PEOPLE WITH VARIOUS TYPES OF EXPERIENCE.

Android app development of a application for the robotic agriculture system.

Android os development of a os that can be copied and deployed by any of the other devices in the series of deployed devices. Also a web development team and integration with android/iOS

That is the beginning project. We are expecting over the next 5 years to spend close to 5 million on development alone. That's if we don't get any grants approved (looking like we may get some of those as well which just increases the budget. I'm gonna leave that at that and post and I'll answer any questions I get when I'm done the next month of meetings and actually have answers. Basic assumption at this point is that all work will hav3 escrow and be scrum based work from anywhere.

Let's get to know each other and maybe if you like the idea of impacting the world positively with a open source agricultural products that can be deployed in a week and be making food in 5 weeks, then maybe drop a comment on the thread. Much love to all of you devs and Android gurus and much love to all the noobs asking noob questions like I have periodically.

Cheers

AIECAN