Wow !!! I'm very curious to listen more.
I wish you a bright future for you and your new company. Giovanni On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Steve Mosher <st...@openmoko.com> wrote: > Community, > As many of you know may 25th was my last official day at Openmoko. > Since that time I have been focused on two > things: First, putting my Openmoko business in order. There were several > tasks that got cut off midstream by the layoff > and I felt I owed it to the community to see those jobs through to some > sort of conclusion. Having relied on volunteer work > from the community for so long, it only seemed right that I contribute. > I wanted to see the buzz fix program successfully > implemented both in the EU and in North America. With help from Dr. > Schaller, SDG, and Sean I was able to get that > done. Next on my list was the GTA02 core project. When we canceled the > GTA03 Werner and others started a community > effort to do a phone design that was completely community driven. That's > no small task, but it keeps the dream alive so > I will continue to support it. On that front, we have met with some > success. Building Open Source hardware requires money > at some stage, money to buy parts and money to build prototypes. > Openmoko has graciously agreed to donate some components > to the project and I've put Werner in contact with people who can help > with the prototype runs. It's still early and there is a > lot of work to do, so pitch in if you can. I also wanted to see the > foundation work kicked off. And lastly I tried to find some of my > Openmoko friends employment which brings me to the second major thing I > have been working on: Starting a new company. > Wolfgang has alluded to this in a previous post and now is a good > time to let you > all know what we have been up to since late May. In the coming days as > we get the web page together and lists set up > I'll make some announcements and blog about the company and its > mission. The key elements are 1. Using existing hardware rather than > designing new hardware. 2. Focusing the software effort below the user > levels, 3. targeting the linux developer community. The most important > thing from our perspective is that there is no conflict with OM. > Wolfgang and I met with Sean on Saturday and explained our plan. OM will > focus on Project B so there won't be any conflict. We also agreed that > in the future the two companies will be able to find ways to work > together with OM perhaps picking up some of our products and applying > their focus-- Industrial design and user interface. > I'll be back to announce the name of the company in the coming week > or so as we build out the web page. You can write me > here or at my personal gmail account. (moshersteven@) > > Best Regards All, > > Steve. > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
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