Sean Moss-Pultz wrote:
Dear Community,
OpenMoko is built around the philosophy that far more knowledge exists
outside the walls of a corporation than within. Internally, we're
struggling with two issues. So we're throwing this out, hoping that some
of you have can help us move past our current crossroads:
1) We can't find a WiFi Chipset with GPL'ed drivers -- We know
this has been discussed (to death) on this list, but as we're
beginning work on the next summer hardware refresh we still can't seem
to find a vendor that meets our strict requirements: Namely, we refuse
to put anything binary in the kernel.
Marvell has some nice for larger devices (the 8388). But we need
one specifically for mobile phones (like the 8686). If somebody
can help us find the right vendor, we'll give you a free Neo1973.
If you're a vendor and want to work with us to GPL your driver, we'll
give you lots of business -- and a free phone ;-)
2) We don't have enough UI / Application developers -- If anybody
meets (or knows somebody who can meet) the following qualifications:
* >= 2 years experience with GTK
* object oriented design and implementation w/ GObject
* experience with writing GUI applications from scratch,
* has software quality assets like:
o writing maintainable and reusable code
o refactoring
o design patterns
o identifying and extracting common application code
into frameworks
Familiarity with collaborative development tools such as:
* bugtracker,
* source control management,
* wiki,
* mailing lists
is a necessity.
We've love to talk with you! Please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
links to your previous work and a resume if you have one. (The latter
is nowhere near as important as the former.)
Thanks in advance for any help!
-Sean
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Good to see things moving forward on the wifi issue. But,
I was going to be a developer for this platform, but in light of my
recent thread, and the lack of wifi support, I don't think I can, at
least not until it's launched to the general public, which defeats the
entire purpose of the developer release phase. It's because of the
following:
1. The sheer quantity of information about finding a mobile provider
with a data plan that will support the neo, as indicated by the useful
responses to my recent thread. And the lack of certainty of that
information. "I think this will work". I appreciate those responses
from non-openmoko people, because it's all we've got to go on. And that
brings me to problem 2:
2. The fact that the openmoko guys have apparently just washed their
hands of the entire issue of which services will work, and aren't
providing any information on the site (and very little on the wiki). (At
least start with the big countries/regions). Your device is great,
guys, your platform sounds great too. But you can't leave us all on our
own when it comes to getting the thing on the net. Your neo is a $350
doorstop without a working service provider.
3. If there was wifi on the device this wouldn't be nearly as much of an
issue, obviously, because we wouldn't need to rely on the provider to
get on the net.
Either give us detailed information on which providers and plans will
work, or get wifi on the device. Those are the two roads at the crossroads.
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