2014-12-22 19:12 GMT+01:00 Raphaël Jadot <[email protected]>:

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> 2014-12-22 8:31 GMT+01:00 Per Øyvind Karlsen <[email protected]>:
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>> 2014-12-21 18:02 GMT+01:00 Raphaël Jadot <[email protected]>:
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>>> Yes, I agree totally. And also another important skill is to be able to
>>> attract people and discuss with them etc.
>>>
>>> As I'm not a developer myself, if I come, I'll don't ask to be
>>> reimbursed if I come as my presence is less useful as is.
>>>
>> I might have another event at that weekend, my friend is turning 30 and
>> I've stood her up several years in row for FOSDEM.. :p
>>
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> That's indeed a priority!
>
It was the next weekend, I'm free ;)

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>> But if I'm not busy, I'd be able to participate, but personal financies
>> are nil these days, so unless I'l obtain some new source of income by that
>> time, I'd ask nicely for trip reimbursement, otherwise I cannot
>> justify/afford the cost these days..
>>
> Of course, unfortunately, this is not sure the asso can reimburse for
> now...
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>> I might have some Moondrake ARM Wandboard xbmc/kodi/media center++
>> release that could be interesting to showcase this year too btw., would be
>> nice to have something new to show for, and the other altneratives for this
>> board are rather few and severely outdated as well, giving it a bit more
>> incentive for actual adoption by users rather than the generic desktop
>> distro which we like everyone else provides (without succeeding setting us
>> much apart) everyone provides as well..
>>
>>
> It seems for now, mainly fedya and you have the ability to show what is
> possible with wandboard and cooker... Am I right?
>
Yes, only procrastrination has prevented me from putting together an image
of what I got now, which is:
Current cooker with all pesky vendor provided libraries, firmware, loading
mechanisms and not, all properly ingerated and for those to care (dealing
with these things are generally the most tedious part of doing an arm port,
rebuilding the packages are just like rebuilding the packages as cooker
otherwise, this OTOH is to deal with a specific kernel tree, libaries, +++
proprietary blogs and whatnot making it a not so generic task like
done-once-done-everywhere).
But for the situation of the Wandboard, there's only a few distributions
available: An older version of Ubuntu with ancient 3.0.35 kernel, some
Android distro, a yocto based xbmc distro running 3.0.35, there's also some
of what seems like a "less" official arch version for it, while it seems
more updated, it seems less announced..

The distro I have ready is based on 3.10.17 (latest full-featured for this
board), mainly targetted kodi (former xbmc name, it boots by default, but
can be disabled), with all hardware working wrt. vpu, gpu, bluetooth, wifi
etc., which is a really tedious task to get going.. :p

Considered the lack of such consumer updated distros (that's neither
mainstream or up to date), cooker might just have a popular user base with
this crowd. ;)

I'll be working improving, both wrt. making it easier to build, also
functionality.

We've just had some talks on IRC on the greatness of ABF and how it's like
Github (whihch rules) combined with OBS (which sucks, no git? W00T?!)!.,
had some discussions with other distributions showing interest in this
platform, and unless we start kidding ourself and think we wanna have
anyting of interest to show for our distribution as  before, these things
are more well worth presenting and people beyond die-hard fans might
actually take a genuine interest and get involved.. :)

Well, I'm just about to head out buying last christmas presents, so cya...;)

--
Regards,
Per Øyvind
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