Am 05.04.2009 um 21:00 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller: > Hi Lothar, Jörg, Sean, Steve, and all others who are interested in a > future GTA03, >
[snip] > * funding of the project organization (e.g. we can set up a > community funds or society or association or however the legal form > has to be choosen). Funding levels could start at 5€ per year for > students and go upwards for individuals and companies. And special > services (e.g. managing the production of 100 customized units) > could even provide more funding for the organization. And indeed we fund with the purchase of our phones. I mostly played with the navit package and done some bug reports. It's a hobby and thus it would also move someone to fund in comunity sub projects when there is a way of hand on soldering and the like. Also I played with the CAD files, wrote a script to convert some of them, that costs me about 1 day. It is a fund. The idea behind that was to make the CAD files available in more formats and thus propably push private case mods. > > > A word to all those who think Hardware can not be developed by a > community should take a look at: > > http://www.amsat.org/ > > Building, launching and operating not only 1 but approx. 50 > satellites in the past 30 years is definitively more complex than > building an open smartphone. Hmm. Then open source projects were not the first movements in the spirit of openess :-) This is a great sample. Here are some links about mobile equipment resellers: TFT displays: http://www.cartft.com/catalog/gl/111 USB display http://www.cartft.com/catalog/il/1057 carPC site (german): http://www.car-pc.info/ A link to books about building car PC's (linked in the carPC site): http://www.amazon.de/dp/0071468269?tag=cartftcom-21&camp=1410&creative=6378&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0071468269&adid=044B8W2G03ATQDZ5ECZK&; This is unrelated but there are always people who build their own :-) Lothar -- | Rapid Prototyping | XSLT Codegeneration | http://www.lollisoft.de Lothar Behrens Heinrich-Scheufelen-Platz 2 73252 Lenningen _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
