Very nice. Thanks for photos and sharing goals and results. Really interesting.
Marek On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 4:09 PM, H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > http://www.ohsw.de/ > Open-hard-software-event mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/open-hard-software-event -- as simple and primitive as possible ------------------------------------------------- Marek Belisko - OPEN-NANDRA Freelance Developer Ruska Nova Ves 219 | Presov, 08005 Slovak Republic Tel: +421 915 052 184 skype: marekwhite twitter: #opennandra web: http://open-nandra.com _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community http://www.tinkerphones.org
