Hi, I was at FOSDEM too and very lucky for been seated at second row, just behind the video camera. The organizers said that all presentations will be in the FOSDEM website, so in the followings hours/days it should be there.
In the "Open Embedded" booth they had a Neo1973 that I could play with for around 5 mins!!! Here's my first experience/feedback: Hardware: The design is similar to the images we have seen in the web. This one was white with the orange edge. The only difference was that it said "Nomad" instead of Neo1973 below de screen... I couldn't see the internal board. The mini USB was connected to a laptop, they told me not to unplug-it otherwise bad things could happen so I stayed close to the laptop. Software: Although the device was not completely functional, I was able to use the "Contacts" app and a shell. The UI is beautiful, quite clean and simple, with the 3 areas well identified: top panel, bottom panel and the central "fullscreen" app. The look & feel was not yet as the imgs we have seen in the web, if you have used Matchbox before, you could realize that it was running there. The performance while navigating through the folders was really good, the touchscreen was very responsive! The contacts software, similar to evolution (not sure if it was evolution) worked quite well, I was able to add a "test" user without any problem (of course, with the help of a stylus that the guy next to me gave me, thanks!) Only the app start-up was not very fast. Then, I opened a shell and could entered some commands, this was not that easy because the virtual keyboard is very very small. I could type top, uname, had a look at /proc... Of course, X was the must resource-hungry process (DirectFB came to my mind ;). The kernel running there was a 2.6.17. The overall experience was quite good, the device is great!!! Since I was just able to use a couple of apps, I got worried about the availability of the others, so I asked Sean if they were on-time for the March launch and he said that he was confident with the dates! Regarding the presentation, you can view it at google video and make your own idea about it, although the slides are not clear. Sean is very enthusiast and convinced about his ideas and you can perceive it easily, the whole presentation was very charged with this! Mickey was very clear and precise too! From the technical point of view, the most important thing was that OpenMoko provides the _building blocks_ and a _set of rules_ for creating a new paradigm. Of course, these two things are open source, so you can create/modified your own blocks/rules and potentially creating new apps and devices. However, the most important thing, as Sean said, was the slide regarding their business model, this answered a lot of questions. Regards, Pedro Aguilar On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 14:20 +0100, Richard Bennett wrote: > On Monday 26 February 2007 13:20, Rod Whitby wrote: > > >> Ole Tange wrote: > > >> > I had hoped there was video coverage of the event. When I found out > > >> > there was not I asked one of the better seated persons to record the > > >> > event using my pocket camera. I have yet to see if the recording is > > >> > acceptable. > > >> > > > >> > What is the easiest way to distribute the video? > > > > Thanks to Ole and SpeedEvil (on IRC), the FOSDEM talk is now on > > video.google.com - search for "openmoko" and you'll find it. > > > One interesting thing is said at 30:20. > Food for speculation... > Would they really add *that* so late in the process? > > Richard > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Pedro Aguilar _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
