Monthly meet of India Linux User Group - Hyderabad Chapter Date: 28 Oct 2007 Started: 14:30 IST Venue: Auditorium, Dept of Astronomy, Osmania University
This month's meet was at a new place and a new schedule The venue had been moved to the Auditorium of the Dept. of Astronomy, Osmania University (opposite Arts College, beside Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics) and the time also had been changed to the last Sunday afternoon 14:00 First Talk: Introduction to OpenMoko By Shakthi Kannan The speaker started off with an intro to the device and the accessories that came with it - Neo 1973 he also showed the openmoko.org site and its wiki Then we went on to the presentation he mentioned that recommended flavor for working on openmoko is debian or debian based like ubuntu we went on to installing it: the two ways... online - add openembedded.org to the apt repository list and install openembedded-seesntials and its dependencies using aptget offline - wget the source and then make setup building the applications: openmoko can be run in qemu... but then qemu had issues in dev version so we SSHed into the phone and forward the GUI to the PC we tried building a simple "Hello World" app for the Neo He explained about the basic of building the application and Makefile Then, the speaker introduced the Autotools we discussed about ipk packaging and bitbake for the openmoko and building using make we even played a Linkin park track off the phone! got a glimpse of its clear sound and video also tried to check out some of the videos of the phone on youtube but then the site was blocked on the proxy!!! also a quick look on the online docs on what can be done with the openmoko on the phone current one even has a terminal to play around with He also mentioned that the phone uses matchbox lightweight window manager and so some features similar to iPhone are also possible to built into it and its very customizable The next version of Neo and Openmoko should have a better hardware and lot more features. There are feeds of Neo and OpenMoko on http://scap.linuxtogo.org Second talk (The last 15 mins): K C Ramakrishna from rKnowsys Technologies also gave an insight on how to get involved with free-software projects He also briefed about the advantage it has over the other regular oppurtunities Regards http://www.cheedhu.name Get the freedom to save as many mails as you wish. To know how, go to http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html
