Hi, looking at the Nanonote sales, not saying I'm disappointed, but,
this thing should be selling way more. The device is great, so this
could be purely a marketing problem. One marketing problem is that the
nanonote is universal - you can use it for almost anything. This is
great practically, but is not a very well defined marketing message. I
know some will say that the nanonote's message is one of open source and
open hardware - I will agree that that is a vision, but hardly a
marketing message for a specific product (from most users perspective).
Maybe some focus on specific functionality could really boost the sales?
For instance, we could choose to focus a bit on gaming, and porting more
half-decent, higher-graphic arcades like the supertux we have now. If we
have 5 - 10 "good" games we could put gaming as part of the marketing
message. Or, we can focus on porting bits from different office suites,
and make sure we have a good word/sheet processor. We can then tell our
less tech-savvy potential costumers what they can expect from this
device (play simple arcade games, edit basic documents on the go), much
like Apple goes through great paint to state the obvious fact you can
watch a movie and surf the web on an iPad.
The greatest obstacle right now to any such focused marketing message is
the fact the Nanonote *software* is a random collection of whatever we
could port. I love this fact, there is nothing wrong with that, but as a
marketing massage, "a random collection of whatever we could port" will
send less tech-savvy users away screaming. If we could decide on a
functionality (i.e. - gaming) and then focus all our joint efforts on
building that functionality in (i.e. porting a few more supertux-like
games), we could then add that to our marketing message (i.e. "The
NanoNote - A Great Gaming Device!) and move on, until we have something
like "The Nanonote - A Great Device for Gaming, Office apps, and Making
Espresso IN YOUR POCKET!" or whatever. If we have that, ladies and
gentlemen, I can start pushing the thing without diving into complicated
explanations about the advantages of Open Source. Open Source is and
should be our main commitment, but we should do everything we can to
make sure Open Source is accompanied by the best message it will sell with.
Maybe we already have enough bits to sharpen our functionality message
with current software? If not, which functionality should we focus on,
and how could we get a few people to hammer on a project until its done
instead of focusing solely on random bits?
Ernest Kugel
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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:19:17 +0000
From: Wolfgang Spraul<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Nanonote sales to date?
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A thought occurred to me- are there still 1500 or so Nanonotes in
circulation? I am wondering how many precious Nano's are floating
across the globe.
Yes, sales are slow (5-10 / month) so it's still around 1300.
And yes, they are precious :-) I think I will move to the next level
of using mine, and move my irc/jabber and email to it (networked via
my notebook). That should be fun! :-)
By the way, come xmas time I am ordering another to cast my vote for
non-intel and for Freedom as a sustainable future! Hats off to Qi!
Definitely. I should write up some thoughts for the next steps in
another mail, I'm just hopelessly behind the new news, so that first...
http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Qi_Hardware_2011-11-20
Thanks a lot for the Christmas gift!
Wolfgang
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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:19:06 +0800
From: Xiangfu Liu<[email protected]>
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On 11/23/2011 04:02 PM, [email protected] wrote:
OK I left listener on for about 15 minutes and conversed with my
brother and it picked up everything. Thanks for the 'aplay' tip and
what an interesting program to hack with!
cool.
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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:27:59 +0100
From: David Kuehling<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: New OpenWrt Release: stable 2011-11-13
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"cenobyte" == cenobyte<[email protected]> writes:
I forgot to mention a tip I have found useful for making ogv videos. I
use ffmpeg2theora to convert clips I save from Youtube or what have
you to Nano size. I pass along the -x 320 -y 240 options as well as
the -sameq. Make sure not to use the ffmpeg syntax of -s 320x240, that
won't get you far. I have been experimenting with ripped DVD's and
have converted one to size, but it is off sync (it was encoded off
sync, not played back off sync). I have tried passing the --sync
option along but so far no luck, the program will not begin
encoding.
ffmpeg2theora seems to have some problems with syncing against mpeg
streams. As a workaround, you could use mencoder (i.e. the one that
ships with mplayer) to first transcode to a losslessly compressed .avi
file, then feed that .avi into ffmpeg2theora. Mencoder's sync handling
is superb. The resulting .avi file will have no per-frame timestamps so
ffmpeg2theora conversion won't introduce audio desync.
mencoder -oac pcm -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=huffyuv:vstrict=-1 \
-o intermediate.avi
(maybe you'd want mencoder to already do the scaling:
-vf scale=320:240)
cheers,
David
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