David, Your idea has a ~lot~ of merit. I suggest it would be best if this "user app store" is independent of Sharisim and qi-hardware to avoid ongoing concerns or issues on whether a given app is appropriate. There might be a way to designate "patent free" apps, but I propose we ~not~ make that purity a condition of being listed. --- Ron K. Jeffries
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 13:40, David Kuehling <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> "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 > > _______________________________________________ > Qi Hardware Discussion List > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion > _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
