Re: letter of recomendation
Yogiz wrote: Seems like a nice recommendation letter, just a couple of observations: 1) Letter of recommendation is an official document and thus contracted forms are not advisable. what's = what is 2) Isn't two-week trip supposed to be without the dash? 3) Sincerely and your contacts should be aligned to left as all the rest of the text. Other then that it looks fine. I might be mistaken about the second point, English is not my first language. Best of luck to you for your next writing task and I can assure you that we all hope that Jodie will get the job! I hope we can read your next piece of writing soon. Thanks and regards, Yogiz On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:42:39 -0800 Ben Hussey brettja...@frumppyoldwoman.com wrote: Jodie, Here is the letter; let me know if you need any changes. I'll print a copy out to sign and have you send out, see you at home! -Ben Oh man, this is really awkward. ...Yet somehow awesome; I have new hope for the openmoko community. -Ben P.S. Thanks for all the proof reading, your pointers are appreciated. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
letter of recomendation
Jodie, Here is the letter; let me know if you need any changes. I'll print a copy out to sign and have you send out, see you at home! -Ben letterOfReq-Jodie.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [SHR,FSO] Serenity theme for illume
Joel Newkirk wrote: I know it's been a few weeks since I said I was going to try to get this out, I apologize. I've released what is essentially an alpha test for the Serenity theme, therefore named serenity-0.2. It's incomplete, and may be broken in some ways I've not seen yet. Comments/criticisms/advice on structural and functional aspects are welcome, those on visual style should be limited to points of inconsistency with the rest of the theme or problems like scaling. (specifically, if you don't like the look of the theme that's fine, but don't bother with comments like I don't like dark themes or what-not - the point is to present the theme to those interested, and hopefully discuss improvements/fixes, not take a poll of the appeal) Note that this is just an Illume/Enlightenment theme, NOT Elementary or any specific apps. (like Paroli, Zhone, SHR phonegui-efl) I'm working on those as well, however. I use it currently with SHR-unstable and FSO-MS5.1. You can download it from http://newkirk.us/om/serenity-0.2.tar.gz and extract - it opens to a folder named serenity, which contains usr/share/enlightenment/data/themes/serenity.edj and usr/share/enlightenment/data/config/serenity folder holding a few files. Copy themes/serenity.edj and the config/serenity folder to /usr/share/enlightement, then you can select it in Illume Settings under Look-Theme, select 'System' at the top-left to see themes installed globally. (/usr/share/...) NOTE: Wallpaper and Theme, at least, may segfault if you are using Software_16 rendering. Once I'm satisfied that it doesn't break anything, and all the main elements are rethemed, I'll release it as an ipk. (of course, at any time if someone wants to they can extract the serenity.edj file and have their way with it - anyone who wants to enhance or alter it in any way is free to do so, so long as 'simple' alterations like changing some images files retain a credit that the new theme is based on Serenity by Joel Newkirk - 'major alterations' or extraction of some portion of Serenity to use in another theme is fine without attribution) What I'm doing: Start with Illume and default themes (anything not defined in illume.edj will 'fall through' to default.edj, like battery and clock) basically renaming illume as serenity, and merge more groups up from default (battery, clock, desktop icon, etc) then work to simplify the structure (graphically and visually - most significantly, making icons two images instead of about eight images each) and shift toward the desired visual appearance. Ordinary buttons are translucent white, though on the black default background they appear grey. Selected/pressed buttons are an 'openmoko-orange' tinted rendition of the same translucent button image. Icons are just icon image at rest, are translucent white when highlighted by keyboard or mouseover (IE dragging on FR) and translucent orange when clicked/tapped. Battery applet is the green one from Illume, but narrower. Tapping it displays the battery percentage and time overlay. GSM applet is the same as Illume but colorized red/yellow/green based on signal quality, with carrier name above signal. Clock applet is more heavily altered, displaying digital time with date below it. Keyboard has been visually/structurally simplified - removing two transparent overlays from each key - resulting in (for me at least) significantly faster keyboard response. (and About:Theme is reworked, though you can only see it if you enable the 'Start' Top Shelf Gadget, then select Enlightenment-Theme from the menu - the animation there is one I've used for splash and busy screens as well, but the FR doesn't seem to have sufficient horsepower to do that without noticeably slowing load times, so I axed them - eventually I may end up with a 'pretty' and a 'functional' version of the theme) Still to do: Several components (like keyboard suggestion popup, tasklist) are still black-text-on-grey-gradient, will be changing to light-on-black. Some visual elements (like left-right arrows on top bar) are still IMHO pretty ugly with software_16, which I hope to fix. I'm hoping within a couple weeks or so to have finished at least the structural/composition changes, resulting in a leaner and faster theme that can easily have any/all images altered to result in a completely different yet still leaner/faster theme. I've also worked on theming Elementary, Zhone, and SHR's telephony GUIs, (just looked at Paroli so far) but haven't yet seen any way to do so without overwriting the original files - which of course is a no-no, being subject to reversion whenever the package owning them is updated. (Can anyone tell me a 'right' way to override them? Does it require rewritten apps that explicitly support theme selection or something?) For those unaware, a .edj file is essentially an archive containing one or more .edc (text)
Fennec Beta 1 Released
I can't wait to see how this is on the Freerunner. I tried a version some months ago, but it was to slow to be worthwhile. It sounds like there are a lot of speedups in this version. http://blog.pavlov.net/2009/03/17/fennec-1-beta-1/ http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fennec/1.0b1/releasenotes/ ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Bounties?
This site looks like what we should start using. I'd be willing to add money to a bounty for several things - a good integrated media player, decent volume control, wifi that 'just works', etc. Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Sargun Dhillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just out of curiosity, how many OpenMoko users out there would be willing to pay for bounties? Additionally, how many developers would work for bounties? What sort of bounties would you guys request? How much would you pay? How about using http://cofundos.org/ for this? Cofundos helps to realize open-source software ideas, by providing a platform for their discussion enrichment and by establishing a process for organizing the contributions and interests of different stakeholders in the idea. It's bit like http://www.getacoder.com/ or http://www.rentacoder.com/ but geared towarads FLOSS. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: New home for the New FDOM
ftp://ftp.tuxbrain.com/openmoko/fdom/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, There is a new FDOM release uploaded at ... no, NOT at compartida.net as the topic suggest FDOM has a new home at http://www.tuxbrain.com/fdom_en.html and if you ask yourself why is because Tuxbrain is my brand new company and I finally have my own server to upload those light images Saergio please configure compartida as mirror if you don't mind This release is plenty of new things, the first and I believe the most Important is that you don't need to reflash your neo to FDOMize it :) Thank's to Nacho, Armin and all of you who have give us ideas and links we have created the FDOMizer :) It can be considered a instruction's log of what we do from a OM2008.X to transform it to a FDOM, The script has been structured to be able to update previous versions of FDOM to the latests one. even it has a only fix option in case some opkg update upgrade mess up things... better to say try to put order in the mess we created without success :) I have to say we have no much time to test it so surelly this is the most unstable release of FDOM we have released, but thanks of the script you will know exactly what we have done an will be easy to know how to fix it, if you want to collaborate to improve Fdomizer for next release fell free to register on the devel list. Here is a few of the improvement we have added to this new version (maybe some of them will half-work and one or two doesn't work at all yet but surely in near future they will) you can take a look directly at the script to see what and how is installed. here I post a list commented that can be used as guide to next steps (fix all that doesn't work out of the box) *dillo (this is FAST app definition ;) it's a pity it doesn't comes with ssl included) *ePdfview, not tested yet *gutenflash (is so geek app that is a must), *qt-x11 calculator works fine :) *lint-wifi(no wifi arround when I tested) *fbreader(install but not apear on the main screen, must investigate why) *Updated remoko to 0.3.2 (do not work for a dependency problem python-textutils packages seem to have bad MD5 from every where I try to download) In the game part :) *Updated Duke3D a version without sound but that works like a charm an has a semitransparent buttons *Pingus :) since I know it exists I was willing to have them on the neo *of course the venerated openmoocow!!! so silly that you must smile any time you upside down your neo *And this one is for steve GNUChess ;) And a lot of cosmetic fixes(arrange icons, submenus, search bar on contacts...) and some no so cosmetic (hwclock, alsa states, storage issue...) thanks to Armin And if you visit the page you will see one thing even my coadmins doesn't wait for }8-) Things to improve that I'm not proud of, GPL stuff, I was intended to document where any piece of code comes from but I have no time to do that, so I will try to improve this making comments on the script itself any time I put a binaries directly and revamped confs. Pindgin It has been update in angstrom repository and it segfaults, surely is dependency issue but I need more time to test. In the first start you must disable automated sleep for a couple of minutes to let the system time to stabilize. Well surely you will discover a lot more things to not to be proud of, but that's what we like it, FAT and DIRTY ;) David Reyes Samblas Martinez http://www.tuxbrain.com Open ultraportable solutions, watch out!! there is a Linux in you pocket ;) The link titled, ftp://ftp.tuxbrain.com/openmoko/fdom/releases, points to the same url but with FDOM in capital letters. So I get a file not found error. The fdom needs to be changed to lowercase in the url. -Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Back to the basics: improving user experience
Citando John Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What do you want us to work on? Prioritized: 1 - Solve the call quality problems (echo, buzzing, volume) for 99% of the users. 2 - Solve the illume resume problems. They have been talked about over and over, but unfortunately the information is scattered and imprecise. the tickets themselves have misleading info (I should know, I helped confuse you...), so maybe this deserves a new single ticket, where everyone contributes with more exact information; 3 - Get the wifi driver corrected, so that it does not create link association and stability and problems; 4 - Finish/validate implementation of the networking stack (all the way up to resolv.conf and friends); 5 - Merge the GPRS muxer into the stable distro, so that it works out of the box; 6 - Integrate the main applications with the power management: if QPE wants to index the whole friggin' filesystem right after boot, then give it time to do so before going into suspend; if you don't, it just bogs down the CPU for many suspend/resume cycles, creating all sorts of problems, and we don't know what is going on... 7 - Accelerate Qt applications - they respond so slowly that a normal user will shoot itself in the foot everyday (i.e. pushing the Answer button twice because it didn't appear to respond, effectively killing the call; or taking the phone to the ear after pushing Answer and having it rind loudly one last time in the ear); 8 - Work with the people of FDOM to integrate the best workarounds and hacks - they did the work already, just use it. 9 - Get all the bluetooth support organized out-of-the-box. I haven't played with it in a long time, but it looked like black voodoo to get a simple pairing and OBEX exchange going... forget about PAN!... 10 - Put a speaker button on the dialer app. This is my only GUI desire for now... Vasco. Yes to the call quality(#1)! Please fix this, I hate talking to people on my Freerunner since they can't hear me well, and I can't hear them. I used a friends phone the other day and was blown away by how good the people on the other end soundedThis should be a non-issue. I wholly agree with this list, in this order. +10! -Ben ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
