>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Pulster <[email protected]> writes:
>>> I prefer read notes about SW and HW development, >> More of that would indeed be welcome. > Talking from the sales frontier, the interest has dropped. I suggest > to consider much more, how to get interesting customers like > university projects, solution providers, value added resellers (VARs). > I am not talking about the big or fast money, but just to finance the > project and its future. My suggestion is to strenghten the cartridge > idea as mentioned on the Wiki. Ready-to-use microSD cards with > self-installing applications which make the "basis unit" to a > Wikireader, retro gaming console, PDA etc. I've been thinking about that and came to a similar but simpler idea: what about a "program archive" website dedicated to sharing Nanonote programs? Currently people have to checkout the full open-wrt toolchain and invest some hours of compile time before they can get any new software on their nanonote. And on the other side the only viable means of publishing new ported/created software is for using this mailinglist and getting the stuff added to official images. This is a very huge barrier to entrance. During my time at the high-school I was part of the TI-92 assembly programming community which hacked texas instruments graphing calculators to run self-made machine code programs on them. I think this community was so highly productive because not only did we have a mailinglist to share development ideas, but because there was a huge program archive where everybody could contribute new software to. It was as easy as zipping a program with a short readme file, then uploading it, with a short description via a webpage form. Then editors sorted it a little, sometimes added screenshots and stuff. The website is still there and still productive: www.ticalc.org . I really think this is a great example for how a website can enable and support a development community. The wiki+git-based qi-hardware.com does currently not even come close, IMO. Nowadays such kind of website might be called an app-store :) For the nanonote, such software distribution could be used to distribute non-official .ipk packages. Though I think barrier to entrance might be greatly reduced by getting more *scripted* programs (python/lua/tcl etc) out there. People would normally not bother getting such stuff into the firmware images, but they might consider uploading it to a program archive (for example I currently have some NanoNote Forth scripts sitting in my SVN archive since I don't know where else to put them. There they are just invisible to most people). Also having this stuff readily available for others to look at and learn From would help new-comers a lot. Just what I'm thinking. Getting such a programming archive up and running will require quite a lot of work. I know, everybody is already very busy with the more important stuff :) cheers, David -- GnuPG public key: http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~dvdkhlng/dk.gpg Fingerprint: B17A DC95 D293 657B 4205 D016 7DEF 5323 C174 7D40
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