Hi, as you might know we have had the 8th Open Hard & Software Workshop in a row last weekend. As in the previous years we were in rooms of the faculty of Mathematics and Information Science of the Technical University of Munich (thanks!).
Well, if you look at some photos, you may get the impression that it wasn't a technical university but a hospital [3]. You may have always known that mathematics and information science is something that needs to be cured and GTA04 and other devices need to be treated :) The solution of the puzzle is that there were movie makers who did rent the floors to capture their scenes and they posted fake banners and room numbers etc. to make it look like a hospital. We did even see them taking a scene on a balcony (director crying "action", "cut")... Sunday morning all was back to the original setting as we did know it from last year. Independently of that amusing environment, we were treated very well by some donator who helped to fund the pizza service, dinner to avoid that we were starving. In total we had 10 participants on Saturday and 7 on Sunday [1]. The topics were proposed by the participants and we then formed and worked in groups. The main topics were [2]: * renovate the tinerkphones.org web page * try to get Replicant 6 compiled and working on GTA04 * discuss software rendering for Replicant 6 * try to build F-Droid from sources * try to get U-Boot 2016.11 compiled and working on GTA04 * develop a hardware concept for a bicycle tracker * work on Letux Kernel for GTA04 * develop a Debian installer concept for the GTA04 * find methods to skip U-Boot and launch the kernel directly Most topics have been worked on and did lead to patches in the git repositories and wiki pages. The most amazing achievement is that we got Replicant 6.0 boot on the GTA04 and demonstrate that it is operable [4]! Await more specific announcements soon. All other topics (except Kernel patches for GTA04, which could easily fill a full week) did show a lot of progress. Not to forget: it was also a lot of fun learning new things from each other and wrestling with nasty bugs :) So in summary such a 2 day hacking weekend with such a powerful team working face to face is worth being organized! Therefore we agreed to plan repeating such an event in ca. 6 months (i.e. before the summer break). Please consider to participate next time (your own topics are very welcome and might find a group). Finally, let me say thanks to all participants and supporters who were not able to participate this time and all those who helped to make it possible! BR, Nikolaus [1]: welcome presentation: http://download.goldelico.com/default/Presentations/20161210%20OHSW/1%20OHSW%20Welcome.pdf [2]: Etherpad copy with topics and results: http://download.goldelico.com/default/Presentations/20161210%20OHSW/Etherpad.html [3]: "Hospital" scenes: http://download.goldelico.com/default/Presentations/20161210%20OHSW/DSC00605s.jpg http://download.goldelico.com/default/Presentations/20161210%20OHSW/DSC00603s.jpg http://download.goldelico.com/default/Presentations/20161210%20OHSW/DSC00601s.jpg http://download.goldelico.com/default/Presentations/20161210%20OHSW/DSC00617s.jpg [4]: Replicant 6 running on GTA04: http://download.goldelico.com/default/Presentations/20161210%20OHSW/DSC00621s.jpg http://download.goldelico.com/default/Presentations/20161210%20OHSW/DSC00619s.jpg http://download.goldelico.com/default/Presentations/20161210%20OHSW/DSC00620s.jpg http://download.goldelico.com/default/Presentations/20161210%20OHSW/DSC00622s.jpg _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community http://www.tinkerphones.org
