Hi everybody, back to the basics! That's the main news from Taipei last week. We decided to focus our engineering on just the basics, even less eye candy: Robust kernel, fast boot time, basic telephony with great audio quality, powerful configuration from the command line, hardware quality. That's it. We will stop working on our Installer, Locations, Diversity and Settings applications. We will get back to all this when the rest is rock solid, but now is not the time. Feel free to pickup any of these projects in the meantime, it's a great way to get affiliated with Openmoko as we will surely get back to them later - hardware features of GTA03 remain as currently planned. To support the new strategy, we have made some organizational changes. The way we are funding freesmartphone.org and Mickey's framework team has been changed (http://www.vanille-media.de/site/index.php/2008/10/14/ci61-0650-fra/ ), John Lee will form a group of Taiwanese software engineers whose focus will be on optimizing various parts of the software stack. We are working on a new way to empower Andy and have him build and lead a kernel team.
Some lighter news from the office: Sean found an article about Pixar's "Collective Creativity" and we are now creatively interpreting the article for our Taipei office life :-) See the article: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/hbr/articles/article.jsp?articleID=R0809D&ml_action=get-article&print=true Somewhere it mentions "inadvertent encounters", so we randomly shuffled everyone's seats! A lot of fun! There are indeed lots of new inadvertent encounters in the office now, as everybody is scrambling to find their colleagues... The head of our testing team, Regina Kim, moved to Australia and will continue to work from there. We hired a new IT person, Ray Chao, to work full-time in Taipei. He will co-work with roh + gismo in Berlin. One of his first big tasks will be to take over responsibility to keep our automated daily builds running. We hired Christopher Hall, a very experienced engineer who will start in production testing software and may later help us a lot on bigger tasks. More next week, everybody here stays focused on GTA02 bug fixing and GTA03 development... Best Regards, Wolfgang & Marek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
