Hi List, As you know, last weekend FOSDEM was held at the Brussels Free University. For the first time in years, OpenPhoenux didn't have its own stand. Luckily enough Michael from OpenPandora/Pyra offered to use part of their stand.
There were a GTA04 in Freerunner case and a Freerunner to admire, both running QtMoko (v58/56), and lacking a spare GTA04-board I put the old Freerunner board next to it for the idea (it had been nice if all visitors had recognized the imposter immediately, they didn't though ;-) ) Besides the hardware there were some flyers for the GTA04 as well as the Neo900. There were a couple of people dropping by thinking of their Openmoko in a drawer, pleasantly surprised by the looks of QtMoko and asking about the battery life of the new boards. I can get by, with about a day of battery life with light usage. That seemed reasonable to them, one of them got just six hours out of his Freerunner. There was quite a lot of interest in Neo900 as well, even though the flyers were not more than the specs page of neo900.org. OpenPandora's successor, DragonBox Pyra was on show. With OpenPandora being a sister project, running very similar hardware and production facilities, it would be nice if we can keep sharing hardware. The Pyra got a fast dual core A15 CPU, and it seems you can throw anything at it. We haven't spoken about power consumption though, I just know one of the strong points of OpenPandora is its huge battery. The stand next to us was about power savings in software (http://mageec.org/), such as optimization flags at compile time. Perhaps some of their findings are applicable in ARM as well. There were more than a few list members; Chris pointed me to the powersavers above and we had a general chat, PaulK came by to talk about Replicant and the kernel. I haven't had time to do much more than keeping up with the mailinglist, so there wasn't anything I could tell him first hand. GNUtoo was at the CoreBoot stand, I only spoke him shortly. Later on the day I got my new SIM for the Limesco network. Limesco is a MVNO in the Netherlands, run by hackers and activists for the same. In case you're in the Netherlands, give them a look (Disclosure: I'm involved in Limesco, so I'm a bit biased ;-) ) The nice thing is that this way you can run the whole mobile stack "in house": we got either our own hardware or firmware, our own printed case, on our own network, and perhaps we can use Sysmocoms programmable SIMs. We ended with a dinner with members of different projects. I had a great time, enjoyed meeting old friends and telling people about our project. Thank you all for making it possible! Best regards, Boudewijn PS: I got some photos, I'll send an update when they're available online.
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