Hi Emmet. Thanks for your response. My responses inline. Steve. > > > My question is, can we do this in some semi-formal way? I want to post > > an article (today if possble), place a promotional ad button and donate > > some equipment to Oliver. Can someone from Canonical informally > > 'approve' and 'recieve' our support such that the community sees that > > it's a two-way link? > > I can't speak on behalf of Canonical, but speaking from my > experience in Ubuntu, it's generally better to get more people who each > have their own hardware involved than to send lots of hardware to some > specific person. More developers with more hardware would help get > Ubuntu Mobile from being something that a couple people fiddle with to > something rich, robust, and widely supported. While Oliver would likely > enjoy being drowned in hardware, it's unlikely that such a model would > result in the significant ongoing testing that is required to ensure > that the releases meet the desired level of polish.
I was proposing that I send an SC3 to Oliver (mainly as I know him and he's not far from me in Germany) to help out with the SCH/Poulsbo testing, not buying up the contents of Dynamism and shipping it to him ;-) I doubt you'll find many devs with poulsbo/touch hardware out there to be honest either so unless Canonical are sending engineers devices, where do they start? How many people on the Ubuntu Mobile (distro) team right now though? I get the impression that its, er, not many more than Oliver? > > Also, I think that rather than creating a link between a "UMPC > Portal Ubuntu Mobile Community" and a "Canonical Ubuntu Mobile > Developer", it may be more sensible to join both as part of an "Ubuntu > Mobile Community" using Ubuntu resources (forums, wiki), this mailing > list, and the IRC channel, to discuss items of interest. Such a group > may also pull other interested parties, from other sources, where all > can collaborate towards a common goal. No problem. you tell me where people should gather. I'll try and promote that meeting point. Dont say IRC or mailing lists though. Open, easy to use forums is probaly the best way to achieve the critical seeding process. > > > > One note - I also want to promote Ubuntu Mobile as > > a potential distro for the larger Poulsbo-based UMPCs and possibly MIDs. > > I know Ubuntu-MID is there for that but I see Ubuntu-MID more of a > > 'developer' or 'OEM' edition and as such, it doesnt connect with the > > community as well. This is the key element and advantage I see with > > Ubuntu Mobile. > > Well, no, Ubuntu MID specifically isn't there for that. Ubuntu MID > is very much not ideal for use on the larger devices (speaking as > someone who used Ubuntu MID on a 7" laptop as a primary computing > platform all through Intrepid UDS). These larger devices are definitely > a target for Ubuntu Mobile, and if sufficiently large, may even be > better with Desktop than either MID or Mobile. Dont forget, touch-interfaces are important here with the mid-range devices. With either large or small screen, the finger doesnt change its size so moving to desktop just because a device has a large screen is a mistake. I see Ubuntu Mobile targeted at the nobile devices. Sub 1KG, often without keyboards. > > > -- OK. I'm happy to promote Ubuntu-Mobile for UMPC-sized Poulsbo devices and very happy to see it happen. Send me details of the ubuntu forum that people should plug into, details of the team and its project wiki/plan and I'll create a news item to say that we're behind Ubuntu Mobile as our #1 hope for UMPCs. Some promo work has to be done somewhere along the lines, I hope this little bit will help to seed enough support and action to get things moving quickly. Netbooks, MIDs and UMPCs are the biggest chance that Linux has ever had to get into the hands of millions but in my opinion, you havent got long before others come in on the scene. Steve -- Steve 'Chippy' Paine Promoting mobile computing devices to over 220,000 people per month through UMPCPortal.com
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