Treviño, > However there's another question to Openmoko: another important > developer left openmoko; unfortunately he's not the first of the list. > Why this happens so often? In every message I've read about, it's > always > stated that there's no so much "openness" as it should be.
This happens because Free Software is driven forward by highly motivated and opinionated individuals. 'pro-active' people rather than people waiting for orders. Openmoko is brave enough in hiring a whole bunch of them and trying to make them work together. I think I can say we are moderately successful at that, at least we are shipping actual phones and have actual software running on them. I know about the bugs... We are constantly looking for people who want to join, right now especially in graphics (with focus on 3D) and kernel work. As raster says on his blog, Openmoko was a "non-working thing" for him, and he is now a "free man" and can work "without interference". I think that's great! Openmoko cannot possibly fund all Free Software projects in the world. We can only use our very limited financial resources (which come from phone sales), to pay for certain things that are _MISSING_ in the Free Software world and we feel won't be created by themselves or by others. Going forward we want to have a much stronger focus on quality, bug fixing, kernel robustness, automated testing, production testing, etc. For the Openmoko factory images, everything stays the same with regards to Enlightenment, in fact we have only just started to use it more and more. Going forward, EFL and Edje will become central pieces in Openmoko's factory images. I think that's a pretty big commitment, and I hope raster will appreciate. It's because his software is good! Maybe one day we can convince him to "take one for the team" again and work for Openmoko. Maybe not. Our doors are open, for raster and others who think they can help Openmoko. Email us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Best Regards, Wolfgang On Sep 16, 2008, at 12:06 PM, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: >> On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:13:39 +0200 Bumbl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> babbled: >> >>> http://www.rasterman.com/files/illume-new-01.png >>> http://www.rasterman.com/files/illume-new-02.png >>> http://www.rasterman.com/files/illume-new-03.png >>> >>> Are these mockups or where can I obtain this theme. >>> >>> It looks amazingly good. >> >> i don't do mockups... :) they pollute! :) it's real. ignore the >> clock and its >> background - that's just a test app i wrote (called Ello). i'm in >> the middle of >> doing illume extensions to e17's nw default theme. > > Woow! That's really amazing... Rasterman you're always the only who > can > make us dreaming even more. > > Btw I didn't read before the bad news about leaving Openmoko [1]... > This > made me really so much sad. Reading your latest mail I figured that > your > relationship with Om was not going so well (didn't they leave you > enough > space of developing how and what you'd have liked?), but I really > hoped > that this wouldn't ever happen... :( > > Now that enlightenment is so important for Openmoko, what will be our > future? Since the main E developer isn't anymore part of Openmoko, its > development won't be anymore Om-focussed; then Rasterman in the near > future could be occupied in other things, so his interest for e- > embedded > could decrease and with it also the quality of the software that > we'll use. > > However there's another question to Openmoko: another important > developer left openmoko; unfortunately he's not the first of the list. > Why this happens so often? In every message I've read about, it's > always > stated that there's no so much "openness" as it should be. > This won't to be a flame, but we all know how people like Rasterman > are > important for the project. I can't really understand how we can throw > those opportunities away... > > > [1] http://www.rasterman.com/index.php?page=News > > -- > Treviño's World - Life and Linux > http://www.3v1n0.net/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
