Thanks Lothar. I think Dr N and I will have some fruitful discussions on how to start this. I'll contribute my time and experience as I am able to to get this going.
Lothar Behrens wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
