On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Thamos <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > i am ambiguous about that. > I think we have already enough Operating Systems with QtMoko and SHR and > Replicant. (Did i miss a really working distro?) > But, as it seems to me, we don't have enough software developers, and as > Mozilla and Ubuntu are big projects, this seems to be a way to use their > ressources to get some nice features to our phones. > > i don't know anything about the OSs themself to evaluate them. > And i don't know if they are really interested in working with us, as > you wrote, they are searching big players.... > > I think the question is if we have people on our side who want to start > such an project (and try to drag some of their developers in). > > greets, > Thamos
Personally, I think that all we need is some good marketing inside the community. For many people that do not track Openmoko by themselves, this project is dead. When I mention it to someone, reaction is very often "is it still alive? Really?". Ubuntu and Firefox OS may be good opportunities to use for marketing. A lot of people inside those two communities will be interested in a phone that is completely free and allows them to run systems they're working on without fighting with some closed source binaries. This will also attract FLOSS-extremists (sorry for term, just couldn't find out anything better at the moment :D) to those OSes, so benefits will be mutual. I think that's the way we should promote ourselves right now. Instead of aiming for end users, we can attract developers of those projects. Most of them probably doesn't know about GTA04 at all, or think about it as a "Freerunner-zombie", which won't last long. If we're able to show them that OpenPhoenux exists and is constantly progressing, without repeating Openmoko mistakes from past, then developers for sure will be interested. Interested developers -> platform support -> way to reach end-users. -- Sebastian Krzyszkowiak, dos http://dosowisko.net/ _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
