Re: Freedom Redfined.
Hi Steve, That's great news. It sounds like you're not giving up on something you love, so good for you! I guess we'll find out once you make more announcements and get your website up, but I'm curious how this impacts the need for the community to create an organization. It sounds like a community organization might not be such an urgent need if your new company will be hosting some or all of the community projects. If that's the case count me a little relieved. A community organization might still be a good idea to complement your plans, but creating it will probably take a lot of time. I still want to help, but I can really only commit to it part time. Good luck and keep us posted! Jeremy On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Steve Mosherst...@openmoko.com wrote: Community, As many of you know may 25th was my last official day at Openmoko. Since that time I have been focused on two things: First, putting my Openmoko business in order. There were several tasks that got cut off midstream by the layoff and I felt I owed it to the community to see those jobs through to some sort of conclusion. Having relied on volunteer work from the community for so long, it only seemed right that I contribute. I wanted to see the buzz fix program successfully implemented both in the EU and in North America. With help from Dr. Schaller, SDG, and Sean I was able to get that done. Next on my list was the GTA02 core project. When we canceled the GTA03 Werner and others started a community effort to do a phone design that was completely community driven. That's no small task, but it keeps the dream alive so I will continue to support it. On that front, we have met with some success. Building Open Source hardware requires money at some stage, money to buy parts and money to build prototypes. Openmoko has graciously agreed to donate some components to the project and I've put Werner in contact with people who can help with the prototype runs. It's still early and there is a lot of work to do, so pitch in if you can. I also wanted to see the foundation work kicked off. And lastly I tried to find some of my Openmoko friends employment which brings me to the second major thing I have been working on: Starting a new company. Wolfgang has alluded to this in a previous post and now is a good time to let you all know what we have been up to since late May. In the coming days as we get the web page together and lists set up I'll make some announcements and blog about the company and its mission. The key elements are 1. Using existing hardware rather than designing new hardware. 2. Focusing the software effort below the user levels, 3. targeting the linux developer community. The most important thing from our perspective is that there is no conflict with OM. Wolfgang and I met with Sean on Saturday and explained our plan. OM will focus on Project B so there won't be any conflict. We also agreed that in the future the two companies will be able to find ways to work together with OM perhaps picking up some of our products and applying their focus-- Industrial design and user interface. I'll be back to announce the name of the company in the coming week or so as we build out the web page. You can write me here or at my personal gmail account. (moshersteven@) Best Regards All, Steve. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Freedom Redfined.
Community, As many of you know may 25th was my last official day at Openmoko. Since that time I have been focused on two things: First, putting my Openmoko business in order. There were several tasks that got cut off midstream by the layoff and I felt I owed it to the community to see those jobs through to some sort of conclusion. Having relied on volunteer work from the community for so long, it only seemed right that I contribute. I wanted to see the buzz fix program successfully implemented both in the EU and in North America. With help from Dr. Schaller, SDG, and Sean I was able to get that done. Next on my list was the GTA02 core project. When we canceled the GTA03 Werner and others started a community effort to do a phone design that was completely community driven. That's no small task, but it keeps the dream alive so I will continue to support it. On that front, we have met with some success. Building Open Source hardware requires money at some stage, money to buy parts and money to build prototypes. Openmoko has graciously agreed to donate some components to the project and I've put Werner in contact with people who can help with the prototype runs. It's still early and there is a lot of work to do, so pitch in if you can. I also wanted to see the foundation work kicked off. And lastly I tried to find some of my Openmoko friends employment which brings me to the second major thing I have been working on: Starting a new company. Wolfgang has alluded to this in a previous post and now is a good time to let you all know what we have been up to since late May. In the coming days as we get the web page together and lists set up I'll make some announcements and blog about the company and its mission. The key elements are 1. Using existing hardware rather than designing new hardware. 2. Focusing the software effort below the user levels, 3. targeting the linux developer community. The most important thing from our perspective is that there is no conflict with OM. Wolfgang and I met with Sean on Saturday and explained our plan. OM will focus on Project B so there won't be any conflict. We also agreed that in the future the two companies will be able to find ways to work together with OM perhaps picking up some of our products and applying their focus-- Industrial design and user interface. I'll be back to announce the name of the company in the coming week or so as we build out the web page. You can write me here or at my personal gmail account. (moshersteven@) Best Regards All, Steve. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Freedom Redfined.
Wow !!! I'm very curious to listen more. I wish you a bright future for you and your new company. Giovanni On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Steve Mosher st...@openmoko.com wrote: Community, As many of you know may 25th was my last official day at Openmoko. Since that time I have been focused on two things: First, putting my Openmoko business in order. There were several tasks that got cut off midstream by the layoff and I felt I owed it to the community to see those jobs through to some sort of conclusion. Having relied on volunteer work from the community for so long, it only seemed right that I contribute. I wanted to see the buzz fix program successfully implemented both in the EU and in North America. With help from Dr. Schaller, SDG, and Sean I was able to get that done. Next on my list was the GTA02 core project. When we canceled the GTA03 Werner and others started a community effort to do a phone design that was completely community driven. That's no small task, but it keeps the dream alive so I will continue to support it. On that front, we have met with some success. Building Open Source hardware requires money at some stage, money to buy parts and money to build prototypes. Openmoko has graciously agreed to donate some components to the project and I've put Werner in contact with people who can help with the prototype runs. It's still early and there is a lot of work to do, so pitch in if you can. I also wanted to see the foundation work kicked off. And lastly I tried to find some of my Openmoko friends employment which brings me to the second major thing I have been working on: Starting a new company. Wolfgang has alluded to this in a previous post and now is a good time to let you all know what we have been up to since late May. In the coming days as we get the web page together and lists set up I'll make some announcements and blog about the company and its mission. The key elements are 1. Using existing hardware rather than designing new hardware. 2. Focusing the software effort below the user levels, 3. targeting the linux developer community. The most important thing from our perspective is that there is no conflict with OM. Wolfgang and I met with Sean on Saturday and explained our plan. OM will focus on Project B so there won't be any conflict. We also agreed that in the future the two companies will be able to find ways to work together with OM perhaps picking up some of our products and applying their focus-- Industrial design and user interface. I'll be back to announce the name of the company in the coming week or so as we build out the web page. You can write me here or at my personal gmail account. (moshersteven@) Best Regards All, Steve. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Freedom Redfined.
Indeed, we're interested to see where this will take us. Please try to do it better this time with the community! I wish you all the best luck. r -- | risto h. kurppa | risto at kurppa dot fi | http://risto.kurppa.fi ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Freedom Redfined.
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote: Indeed, we're interested to see where this will take us. Please try to do it better this time with the community! I wish you all the best luck. Its so nice to know that OM will get more strong backing because the community has matured but without a company backing, its not easy to manage things. Wish you best of luck and we will do as much as possble. Keep it up. r -- | risto h. kurppa | risto at kurppa dot fi | http://risto.kurppa.fi ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Shaz ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
