Hi, > Am 05.02.2018 um 09:54 schrieb rhn <opcomali....@porcupinefactory.org>: > > Hi Nikolaus, > > On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 09:28:20 +0100 > "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <h...@goldelico.com> wrote: > >> Hi rhn, >> >>> Am 04.02.2018 um 23:40 schrieb rhn <opcomali....@porcupinefactory.org>: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Sun, 4 Feb 2018 17:01:55 +0100 >>> "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <h...@goldelico.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> FOSDEM is over and I am leaving for the airport in 10 minutes :( >>>> >>>> FOSDEM was an as interesting experience as every time. >>>> Many people to meet, many talks, (too) many topics in >>>> parallel... You have to decide how to spend time and know >>>> in advance that you miss 90% of important things. >>>> >>>> Unfortunately I didn't notice any talk, booth, presentation, >>>> material to mention OpenMoko. Except some people who did remember >>>> when we came into talking. But as said I haven't been everywhere :) >>>> So if anyone did see something, please share. >>> >>> OpenMoko was mentioned near the end of FOSDEM at a Birds of Feather phone >>> development event that was organized ad-hoc on Saturday: >>> >>> https://bobsummerwill.com/2018/02/03/helping-purism-not-to-make-the-same-mistakes/ >>> >> >> interesting! I think nobody of our tinkerphones, gta04, Pyra, Replicant >> developers did know about it. >> >>> >>> It was focused on Purism as the most recent contender to the title of a >>> free software phone, but the conversation was really about other platforms, >>> as you might guess from the post. >>> >>> There were people present involved with Purism, Jolla, Postmarket OS, >>> Maemo, Mer, but also Fairphone and Plasma Mobile (sorry about those I >>> forgot). Personally, I regret not meeting any people from Pyra, OpenMoko, >>> ZeroPhone or Replicant, but I hope that at FOSDEM was an anomaly and that >>> the community is not splitting in half :) >> >> To me it looks as if the community is already split in half, because the >> projects you list were "missing" on the list by Bob Summerwill. Well, if >> there had been a dedicated devroom it might have been very different because >> we would have known about a meeting opportunity long before. >> >> Another observation is that Bob's initiative seems to focus on mobile >> software while we are more on the interfaces and down to hardware. >> >> BR and thanks for sharing! Next year... :) >> >> Nikolaus > > Some of these projects were indeed missing, but OpenMoko is listed as the > third one ;) (Replicant is also there). You read the message correctly, the > discussion mostly ignored the hardware aspect. However, not all hope is lost, > since Purism and Fairphone both have a strong focus on the hardware, so that > could be a meeting point. > > Perhaps it's worth trying to organize a similar event at the next FOSS event, > but this time plan it in advance and bring the *whole* community together?
Definitively. Maybe a dedicated "Mobile HW&SW Devroom" would help. I think devrooms must be requested around September. Let's hope that it will not be forgotten till then :) BR, Nikolaus _______________________________________________ Gta04-owner mailing list Gta04-owner@goldelico.com http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/gta04-owner