Agreed, when opkg.org started I insisted a bit with Tobias so that he wouldn't make it a distribution point but a facilitator towards finding interesting apps *from*the*repos* :)
Rui On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 09:01:56AM -0400, Warren Baird wrote: > Frankly, I'm not that fond of the name opkg.org... > > As I said, I'd rather have some kind of an application database - something > that explicitly *does not* provide opkg files. > > Maybe we should get something like frappdb.org or something like that? > > Warren > > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 01:46:05PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 03:25:25PM +0300, Risto H. Kurppa wrote: > > > > Opkg.org seems to be owned by the author so if the author is not > > > > co-operative (cannot be reached, doesn't answer e-mails or jabber) > > > > there's not much we or OM can do about it. > > > > > > Have any of these physical contacts been tried? > > > > > > We probably need a "foundation" of sorts to handle this kind of things, > > > anyway, but I'm willing to donate the reasonable expense in order to buy > > > the domain either from Tobias or if I manage to buy it after expiry and > > > donate it to a foundation. > > > > > > r...@roque:~$ whois opkg.org > > > (...) > > > Domain ID:D154421724-LROR > > > Domain Name:OPKG.ORG > > > Created On:08-Oct-2008 07:38:10 UTC > > > Last Updated On:08-Dec-2008 03:51:51 UTC > > > Expiration Date:08-Oct-2009 07:38:10 UTC > > > Sponsoring Registrar:ASCIO Technologies, Inc. - Denmark (R76-LROR) > > > Status:OK > > > Registrant ID:AT21297988-052 > > > Registrant Name:Tobias Kuendig > > > Registrant Organization:Tobias Kuendig > > > Registrant Street1:Sagenblickweg 6 > > > Registrant Street2: > > > Registrant Street3: > > > Registrant City:Ebikon > > > Registrant State/Province: > > > Registrant Postal Code:6030 > > > Registrant Country:CH > > > Registrant Phone:+41.793909805 > > > Registrant Phone Ext.: > > > Registrant FAX: > > > Registrant FAX Ext.: > > > Registrant > > > Email:[email protected]<email%[email protected]> > > > > Ijust tried the phone number, a woman who couldn't speak english or french > > (just german) but understood enough to answer «no Tobias». > > > > I guess I'll just have to try to buy opkg.org > > > > Rui > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Openmoko community mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > > > > -- > Warren Baird - Photographer and Digital Artist > http://www.synergisticimages.ca > _______________________________________________ > 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
