That's a though question, especially due to the differences between a car and a phone. :) When it comes to pure Community building, IMHO the leaders seem to be Ubuntu; so you should probably talk to Jono Bacon or read his book. ;) Regarding the Openmoko community, I think it works better now that we don't expect anything from Openmoko the company -- this has freed everybody to assert their own targets and roads, and get down and dirty instead of waiting for the next disclosure. So, not having a "benevolent dictator" over the community makes it proliferate and flourish. On the other hand, we now have almost as many distributions as we have phones out there. ;) And many of the applications are being redundantly developed in parallel, instead of collaboration. So, my humble advice to you: if 40fires wants a coherent community, focused on a small set of defined goals, you must be the benevolent dictator and you must have a single communication channel that is extremely clear (see linux or perl); if on the contrary, you seek variety, chaotic innovation, and surprise, then just throw it up on as many channels as you like and watch the feeding frenzy. :)
BTW, congratulations on the project. The world needs it. Roland Whitehead escreveu: > I am working with the 40 Fires Foundation [http://www.40fires.org] to > try to build a framework for the development of open source hardware. > You might have heard that the first project is the "hyrban" car - a > car powered by a hydrogen fuel cell - the prototype of which was > revealed by Riversimple [http://www.riversimple.com] earlier in the > summer and whose designs have been licensed to 40 Fires. We have had > input from Mozilla and other software foundations but of course the > design of something like a car is a little harder to manage as an open > source project. Openmoko.org is frequently raised in discussions and > has lead me to push forward a wiki, mailing list and nabble based > forums. Before we commit to this, how well do you think that this > technology serves the Openmoko community? If you had the chance to > build a community for the development of the Openmoko (hardware as > well as software) what would you do and why? > > TIA > > Roland > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community