Hello Boudewijn Thank you so much for this summary, I appreciate it very much because I could not be there. I'm very happy to see that our community is still alive, so thank you very much!
Best regards, Matteo Il 05/feb/2014 23:25 "Boudewijn" <wankelwan...@yahoo.com> ha scritto: > Hi List, > > As you know, last weekend FOSDEM was held at the Brussels Free University. > For > the first time in years, OpenPhoenux didn't have its own stand. Luckily > enough > Michael from OpenPandora/Pyra offered to use part of their stand. > > There were a GTA04 in Freerunner case and a Freerunner to admire, both > running > QtMoko (v58/56), and lacking a spare GTA04-board I put the old Freerunner > board next to it for the idea (it had been nice if all visitors had > recognized > the imposter immediately, they didn't though ;-) ) > > Besides the hardware there were some flyers for the GTA04 as well as the > Neo900. There were a couple of people dropping by thinking of their > Openmoko > in a drawer, pleasantly surprised by the looks of QtMoko and asking about > the > battery life of the new boards. I can get by, with about a day of battery > life > with light usage. That seemed reasonable to them, one of them got just six > hours out of his Freerunner. > > There was quite a lot of interest in Neo900 as well, even though the flyers > were not more than the specs page of neo900.org. > > OpenPandora's successor, DragonBox Pyra was on show. With OpenPandora > being a > sister project, running very similar hardware and production facilities, it > would be nice if we can keep sharing hardware. The Pyra got a fast dual > core > A15 CPU, and it seems you can throw anything at it. We haven't spoken about > power consumption though, I just know one of the strong points of > OpenPandora > is its huge battery. > > The stand next to us was about power savings in software ( > http://mageec.org/), > such as optimization flags at compile time. Perhaps some of their findings > are > applicable in ARM as well. > > There were more than a few list members; Chris pointed me to the > powersavers > above and we had a general chat, PaulK came by to talk about Replicant and > the > kernel. I haven't had time to do much more than keeping up with the > mailinglist, so there wasn't anything I could tell him first hand. GNUtoo > was > at the CoreBoot stand, I only spoke him shortly. > > Later on the day I got my new SIM for the Limesco network. Limesco is a > MVNO > in the Netherlands, run by hackers and activists for the same. In case > you're > in the Netherlands, give them a look (Disclosure: I'm involved in Limesco, > so > I'm a bit biased ;-) ) The nice thing is that this way you can run the > whole > mobile stack "in house": we got either our own hardware or firmware, our > own > printed case, on our own network, and perhaps we can use Sysmocoms > programmable SIMs. > > We ended with a dinner with members of different projects. I had a great > time, > enjoyed meeting old friends and telling people about our project. Thank you > all for making it possible! > > Best regards, > > Boudewijn > > > PS: I got some photos, I'll send an update when they're available online. > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > >
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