Re: Ask Sean Moss-Pultz about community matters

2008-12-17 Thread Michele Renda
Il 17/12/2008 11:19, Tilman Baumann ha scritto:
 Name a application that you would have expected to be made by the the
 community first but not has been delivered yet?
 (Something quirky but obvious or just in dire need)

 Where do you think has the community let you down? Name a aerea where
 you would have expected more community thrust but has failed.

 Where do you think could any person do the most for the project right
 now? Think of if that person would be ideal and have all the skills needed.
 And then, which skills are in most need right now and in the future?

+1 : The first interessant questions I read in this tread


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Re: Ask Sean Moss-Pultz about community matters

2008-12-17 Thread Tilman Baumann
Name a application that you would have expected to be made by the the 
community first but not has been delivered yet?
(Something quirky but obvious or just in dire need)

Where do you think has the community let you down? Name a aerea where 
you would have expected more community thrust but has failed.

Where do you think could any person do the most for the project right 
now? Think of if that person would be ideal and have all the skills needed.
And then, which skills are in most need right now and in the future?

Minh Ha Duong wrote:
 Dear friends,
 
   Sean kindly agreed to be interviewed for the next edition of the Community 
 Update newsletter. I invite every subscriber of this list to post the 
 question or questions that s-he cares about most. No gloves. The general 
 topic is Openmoko, the community, past-present-future, but yours truly will 
 select with undue care the 3-5 most interesting / provocative / popular / 
 relevant / funny / whatever and forward them to Sean next Monday. You may 
 send your questions in this mailing list thread or privately to me.
 
 Minh
 
 PS: Everybody knows that Sean Moss-Pultz is Openmoko CEO, but you may also be 
 interested to find that many of his past interviews are available here:
 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Openmoko:Current_events
 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Press_Coverage
 
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Re: Ask Sean Moss-Pultz about community matters

2008-12-16 Thread Juergen Schinker

 
 *do you use the FR? As your daily phone? Why not? Which distro do you
 prefer? Which app is your favorite?
 
 *how many FR's haven been sold? (if possible some statistics with
 regards to continents/countries)
 
 * _guess_ the ETA of GTA03
 

which distro allows me to actually place a call?

why don't you develop a laptop with the same ideology as with

the freerunner (i would preorder)?

will GTA03 have 3G?

can you make a short video where you place a call from a freerunner

and call Harald(Welte) the Rasterman and Mickey?

(and they are answering with a FR!)


Flash loose

Juergen

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Re: Ask Sean Moss-Pultz about community matters

2008-12-16 Thread Yorick Moko
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:54 AM, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler
ras...@rasterman.com wrote:
 i listened... i was the one who put it there to start with as i knew it was
 needed/wanted. i haven't been doing ui's for x/linux for over a decade for
 nothing :)


sorry, forget to add an exception for you.
you listened (also on irc) and (i'm sure) defended our interests when
you were employed by openmoko

keep up the good work

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Re: Ask Sean Moss-Pultz about community matters

2008-12-16 Thread Tim Dobson
Ok, since I asked, I'll answer too.

Tim Dobson wrote:
 What phone is in your pocket right now?
none. My Freerunner is on a lanyard round my neck though.
 What distro is it running? Why?
FDOM (latest 'stable' image)
Because I don't like installing applications if I can help it.
I find installing applications (and hacking the installs) a quick way to 
nuke your install.
 What do you use your phone for the most?
Sending text messages
 What distros have you tried?
(not very recently) 2007.2, 2008.8 (possibly 2008.9 as well), Qtopia 
(briefly)
 What other portable consumer electronics do you use on a regular basis?
A nokia 3310 as an alarm clock and phone book.
(I realise FDOM does both of these, but I easily oversleep, so I set 
reminders on the phone every 2 minutes after the initial alarm and the 
qtopia-x11 doesn't seem to let me move contacts from isntall to install 
easily :-/ )
 Who in the community, after yourself, deserves praise for their 
 achievements which might otherwise go unnoticed?

The people who hack away on uncool programs, do things they may not 
enjoy but provide the necessary infrastructure for everyone else to do 
the things they want.

 What is the most pointless application on the Freerunner?

Obviously OpenMooCow does the least useful thing, but it still brings a 
smile to your face, probably The GIMP running in debian on the 
freerunner was what I thought was the most pointless thing, however, I 
could be very wrong there and I for one would be interested in seeing 
the FR work as a graphics tablet..

 What is the most interesting thing you have seen the Freerunner used for?

A vibrator is the funniest hack I have seen...
The starmap, orrey, is one of the most innovative ideas the the 
potential Doom and DukeNukem3d have shown (even with less than ideal 
situations with graphics drivers) for 1 first person acceerometer 
control FPS is amazing.
I could go on...

In the future I want to use it as my Personal Music Player, but I trod 
on one of the ear phones and it broke and haven't got round to getting 
some more yet :(

 Which is your favourite Freerunner joke?
Q: What's the difference between a Freerunner and a brick?
A: A brick isn't designed to make phone calls.

Though, to be honest, this hasn't been my experience of it really, I use 
it as my phone every day!


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Re: Ask Sean Moss-Pultz about community matters

2008-12-16 Thread Marc Bantle
Hi,

Minh Ha Duong schrieb:
 Dear friends,

 You may 
 send your questions in this mailing list thread or privately to me.

   
here my questions:

Question 1
Are you willing to talk about marketing figures?
How many devices have been sold. Freerunner?
Neo 1973? Other (OEM) Hardware provided
by Openmoko?

Question 2
Who are the people behind the mentioned design team?
What future plans does the design team work on that may
be of interest to the community?

Question 3
What will be the preferred strategy to release information
to the community in the future: Make official announcements
or have (frustrated) employees leak it to the community?

Question 4
Which activities and liaisons with partners other than
the community is/was Openmoko involved currently
and in the past year? Things that come to my mind are
italian goverment, Dash, ...? What's the status?

Thanks for asking,
Marc

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Re: Ask Sean Moss-Pultz about community matters

2008-12-16 Thread Tim Dobson
Marc Bantle wrote:

 Question 1
 Are you willing to talk about marketing figures?
 How many devices have been sold. Freerunner?
 Neo 1973? Other (OEM) Hardware provided
 by Openmoko?

That's a good question I hadn't thought of, I'd love to hear some 
details on that :)

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Re: Ask Sean Moss-Pultz about community matters

2008-12-16 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:59:17 +0100 Yorick Moko yorickm...@gmail.com babbled:

 On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:54 AM, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler
 ras...@rasterman.com wrote:
  i listened... i was the one who put it there to start with as i knew it was
  needed/wanted. i haven't been doing ui's for x/linux for over a decade for
  nothing :)
 
 
 sorry, forget to add an exception for you.
 you listened (also on irc) and (i'm sure) defended our interests when
 you were employed by openmoko

i hope i did. i like to be frank and open about anything. even when i disagree
with you guys - i make sure i fully argue my case and why. maybe the community
will then go h now that makes sense! or... maybe you convince me i'm
wrong :) it always should work out for the best. most of the time things are
just a matter of not enough hours in the day to do everything. i come from
the community - have been doing oss dev for a long time - and intend to
continue.

i do hope openmoko succeeds. it would be a shame that a great concept like an
open phone you really can hack any way you like (be you a qte person, or you
like your android, or you prefer your x world with windowmanagers you choose -
or write yourself) and know that the producer is NOT putting barriers between
you and getting the stuff you want - not artificial ones like closing
documentation, putting signed bootloaders that require signed kernel/os
images etc. etc., simply technical ones that are a pure bi-product of the
hardware as-is. this should not die. it holds promise for the community and
many others besides. so here's thumbs up to om so in the future the promise of
an open phone doesn't die with the freerunner. :)

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Re: Ask Sean Moss-Pultz about community matters

2008-12-15 Thread Yorick Moko
* It's still more reliable and easy to use a 20EUR cellphone than use
the FR as a daily phone, more than six months after Openmoko said it
was mass market ready. I love the FR, but should we admit that some
things really went wrong? (for example working on a graphical
installer app before telephony worked fine, or when everyone was
craving for the qwerty button (I never heard even one user who said he
didn't want it) and nobody listened? Will things change?

*do you use the FR? As your daily phone? Why not? Which distro do you
prefer? Which app is your favorite?

*how many FR's haven been sold? (if possible some statistics with
regards to continents/countries)

* _guess_ the ETA of GTA03

* show us a funny pic of you in a openmoko t-shirt and geek-cap

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Minh Ha Duong hadu...@centre-cired.fr wrote:
 Dear friends,

  Sean kindly agreed to be interviewed for the next edition of the Community
 Update newsletter. I invite every subscriber of this list to post the
 question or questions that s-he cares about most. No gloves. The general
 topic is Openmoko, the community, past-present-future, but yours truly will
 select with undue care the 3-5 most interesting / provocative / popular /
 relevant / funny / whatever and forward them to Sean next Monday. You may
 send your questions in this mailing list thread or privately to me.

 Minh

 PS: Everybody knows that Sean Moss-Pultz is Openmoko CEO, but you may also be
 interested to find that many of his past interviews are available here:
 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Openmoko:Current_events
 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Press_Coverage

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Re: Ask Sean Moss-Pultz about community matters

2008-12-15 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Yorick Moko yorickm...@gmail.com writes:
 nearly resolved in SHR for example, but the volume is still too low

Have you set 'Speaker Playback Volume' to 127?

 extended period in phone. The Framework is making good progress, but i
 still miss calls or don't receive sms'es. Qtopia is ok (the version

Interesting, I have not missed calls for a while. Did you have
workaround for #1024?

 but in the end I just want a working, reliable phone and I hope I
 won't have to wait another half year

Don't wait, hack! :-)

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Re: Ask Sean Moss-Pultz about community matters

2008-12-15 Thread Kosa
Hi there,

I first know from openmoko reading  Harald's Welte blog [1] two years 
ago, and
after some reading I thought Openmoko was a great project. Time past and
Harald quitted. He explain a llittle it about it in his blog but I was 
too in love with
the idea of a free and open phone/pda and I kept reading about it. Some 
time
later Openmoko hired the Rasterman and a little bit later he quitted 
too. Now it's
been a while since Michel Siloh doesn't write.

I know you don't need/have to explan that, and I'm not really sure if 
I'd like to know
what happened, but two of the best hackers are gone, and they could have 
help a lot
more as full time OM developers.

Hum... not really a question. Sorry.

Thank you Sean an everyone on the OM tema for your  time and effort.
Let's keep impacting the material world.

Kosa

- Un mundo mejor es posible -

http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/linux/openmoko/index.html

Minh Ha Duong escribió:
 Dear friends,

   Sean kindly agreed to be interviewed for the next edition of the Community 
 Update newsletter. I invite every subscriber of this list to post the 
 question or questions that s-he cares about most. No gloves. The general 
 topic is Openmoko, the community, past-present-future, but yours truly will 
 select with undue care the 3-5 most interesting / provocative / popular / 
 relevant / funny / whatever and forward them to Sean next Monday. You may 
 send your questions in this mailing list thread or privately to me.

 Minh

 PS: Everybody knows that Sean Moss-Pultz is Openmoko CEO, but you may also be 
 interested to find that many of his past interviews are available here:
 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Openmoko:Current_events
 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Press_Coverage

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Re: Ask Sean Moss-Pultz about community matters

2008-12-15 Thread Tim Dobson
Yorick Moko wrote:
 *do you use the FR? As your daily phone? Why not? Which distro do you
 prefer? Which app is your favorite?

What phone is in your pocket right now?
What distro is it running? Why?
What do you use your phone for the most?
What distros have you tried?
What other portable consumer electronics do you use on a regular basis?
Who in the community, after yourself, deserves praise for their 
achievements which might otherwise go unnoticed?
What is the most pointless application on the Freerunner?
What is the most interesting thing you have seen the Freerunner used for?
Which is your favourite Freerunner joke?

:D

Tim


P.s. anyone else feel free to fork thread and give their own point of 
view on these questions, it is interesting anyone giving their opinions!

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Re: Ask Sean Moss-Pultz about community matters

2008-12-15 Thread Marcel
Am Monday 15 December 2008 21:13:56 schrieb Tim Dobson:
 Yorick Moko wrote:
  *do you use the FR? As your daily phone? Why not? Which distro do you
  prefer? Which app is your favorite?

 What phone is in your pocket right now?

None. My Nokia 3510i is lying round here somewhere and doing quite nothing 
except displaying a clock.

 What distro is it running? Why?

Don't ask me such things... I don't think it's one of the Nokias that run 
Symbian already... Some proprietary piece of code probably. But it can dial 
reliably! And I can even understand the other party. Killer-feature.
(No, I'm not cynic here, I just state reality. :) )

 What do you use your phone for the most?

Send an SMS or two every two months.

 What distros have you tried?

Oh. I didn't know I can change the distro this bone is running... But I've 
tried several on my Neo: QTE, Qtopia, ASU, testing, FDOM (in some earlier 
stage, didn't get back so far). ATM it is running the base image with the 
freesmartphone.org GSM stack and zhone (kinda annoying sometimes, gotta get 
my hands dirty on paroli. If I could only get that to run in turn...)

 What other portable consumer electronics do you use on a regular basis?

My iPod Photo. Apple may be evil, but they produce damn good hard- and 
software. Still it's running Rockbox from time to time.

 Who in the community, after yourself, deserves praise for their
 achievements which might otherwise go unnoticed?

Me myself! I created this awesome wiki page with links to EFL 
Documentation! :D

 What is the most pointless application on the Freerunner?

OpenMooCow! AFAIK there's some joke about it (except mooing), but probably I'm 
not old enough to be able know that... But still: This app may do nothing but 
mooing - THIS is something we really need. People who simply have fun doing 
strange geeky things. :)

 What is the most interesting thing you have seen the Freerunner used for?

There was an idea half a year or so around using it as an earthquake warner, 
that sounded quite interesting.

 Which is your favourite Freerunner joke?

Atm it's just walking (rather hobbling)... :P

People out there: Do not forget having FUN with this device! It may not work 
perfectly (does it at all?) yet, but this is something unique we must keep 
up!

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Re: Ask Sean Moss-Pultz about community matters

2008-12-15 Thread Michael Zanetti
On Monday 15 December 2008 21:13:56 Tim Dobson wrote:
 What phone is in your pocket right now?

My good old Sony Ericsson M600i.

 What distro is it running? Why?

M600i: Symbian UIQ3. Is it possible to install linux on it?
Neo: currently SHR preview because I _really_ like the look and feel... 
Hopefully the final version will perform a little bit better...

 What do you use your phone for the most?

M600i: Telephony.
Neo: Flashing the latest and hottest stuff on it, pimping till the software is 
completely smashed... Flashing, pimping, braking.

 What distros have you tried?

Om2007.2, Om2008.8, FSO, Android, SHR, Qtopia (and QTE), FDOM, Debian. Haven't 
tried ubuntu or gentoo yet on my Neo.

 What other portable consumer electronics do you use on a regular basis?

Nokia N810

 Who in the community, after yourself, deserves praise for their
 achievements which might otherwise go unnoticed?

The guy who wrote openmoocow! No... honestly, everyone contributing to this 
great project deserves praise!

 What is the most pointless application on the Freerunner?

What question... OpenMooCow of course... But even if its kinda useless, it's 
one of the mosed used openmoko apps here (after dfu-util :) ).
Did you know that also Windows Mobile has a MooCow, although it is not open :P

 What is the most interesting thing you have seen the Freerunner used for?

Running KDE4. Hopefully some day plasma will perform good enough on such small 
devices that we have a KDE phone edition or something like that...

 Which is your favourite Freerunner joke?

Q: What is the difference between a professional photographer and OM user? 
A: The OM user has to flash more often :)

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Re: Ask Sean Moss-Pultz about community matters

2008-12-15 Thread Yorick Moko
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net wrote:
 Yorick Moko wrote:
 *do you use the FR? As your daily phone? Why not? Which distro do you
 prefer? Which app is your favorite?

 What phone is in your pocket right now?
Siemens M55; halfbroken for more than a year, but I decided that the
FR would be my next daily phone... I'm rather stubborn :)

 What distro is it running? Why?
SHR; development is going forward rapidly, +/- stable, good support :)

 What do you use your phone for the most?
flashing

 What distros have you tried?
2007.2, qtopia, 2008.8, 2008.9, SHR, FSO

 What other portable consumer electronics do you use on a regular basis?
my buggy siemens gsm

 Who in the community, after yourself, deserves praise for their
 achievements which might otherwise go unnoticed?
Dave, because I like the pictures he uploads to scap!

 What is the most pointless application on the Freerunner?
the dialer :p

 What is the most interesting thing you have seen the Freerunner used for?
calling

 Which is your favourite Freerunner joke?
[16:03] jadams_ does 2008.8 support the neo yet?

y

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Re: Ask Sean Moss-Pultz about community matters

2008-12-15 Thread The Rasterman
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:30:09 +0100 Didier Raboud did...@raboud.com babbled:

 Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
 
  Yorick Moko yorickm...@gmail.com writes:
  * It's still more reliable and easy to use a 20EUR cellphone than use
  the FR as a daily phone, more than six months after Openmoko said it
  was mass market ready. I love the FR, but should we admit that some
  things really went wrong? (for example working on a graphical
  installer app before telephony worked fine, or when everyone was
  craving for the qwerty button (I never heard even one user who said he
  didn't want it) and nobody listened? Will things change?
  
  I realize you are asking Sean but I can't resist giving my own
  opinion: I've been thinking along the same lines. However, the
  workaround to GSM bug #1024 was really not easy to discover (it relied
  on undocumented AT command that afaik was not even in the NDA'd source
  code openmoko people have access to). Also, the wlan issues required
  deep kernel knowledge. Asking people who do pretty UIs to stop before
  these are resolved probably does not do much good since they could not
  help with the lower level stuff anyway?
 
 Wrong people? Change people!
 
 I mean: for me, Openmoko made a mistake by hiring GUI people instead of
 kernel ones at the beginning.
 
 My questions would then be:
 
 * Do you (as Openmoko's CEO) consider that mistakes have been made in the
 hiring process (in terms of goals and so in terms of capabilities, not in
 terms of persons) ?
 * If so, what have you done or what will you do to correct these
 mistakes?
 * If not, where are the mistakes (if there are after all)?

it has nothing to do with hiring gui people. believe it or not.. the gui people
do and can help with the lower level. for example - if gui people weren't
involved the /sys/class/power_supply interface for showing battery and
charging info wouldn't work as no one would have used/tested it - why? the
older gui only used the deprecated apm api from the kernel whihc provides a
much more limited view of information. gui people build infra that is
gui-friendly/ready that talks to the lower levels and manipulates them.
without someone manipulating them in an expected use pattern a lot of stuff
would remain broken. nothing to do with the gui people. more to do with how they
were directed - i.e. told what to do. i estimate about 50-70% of the time was
spent with fiddly make it a perfect rendition of our flash mockup than making
stuff actually solid and work as a foundation (even if a little clunkily). and
before you say it - eye candy comes for free when using EFL. so spending time
on it is a bogus argument as the libraries already do this and were already
written for it - they are just being used.

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Re: Ask Sean Moss-Pultz about community matters

2008-12-15 Thread The Rasterman
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:19:33 +0100 Yorick Moko yorickm...@gmail.com babbled:

 * It's still more reliable and easy to use a 20EUR cellphone than use
 the FR as a daily phone, more than six months after Openmoko said it
 was mass market ready. I love the FR, but should we admit that some
 things really went wrong? (for example working on a graphical
 installer app before telephony worked fine, or when everyone was
 craving for the qwerty button (I never heard even one user who said he
 didn't want it) and nobody listened? Will things change?

i listened... i was the one who put it there to start with as i knew it was
needed/wanted. i haven't been doing ui's for x/linux for over a decade for
nothing :)

 *do you use the FR? As your daily phone? Why not? Which distro do you
 prefer? Which app is your favorite?
 
 *how many FR's haven been sold? (if possible some statistics with
 regards to continents/countries)
 
 * _guess_ the ETA of GTA03
 
 * show us a funny pic of you in a openmoko t-shirt and geek-cap
 
 On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Minh Ha Duong hadu...@centre-cired.fr
 wrote:
  Dear friends,
 
   Sean kindly agreed to be interviewed for the next edition of the Community
  Update newsletter. I invite every subscriber of this list to post the
  question or questions that s-he cares about most. No gloves. The general
  topic is Openmoko, the community, past-present-future, but yours truly
  will select with undue care the 3-5 most interesting / provocative /
  popular / relevant / funny / whatever and forward them to Sean next Monday.
  You may send your questions in this mailing list thread or privately to me.
 
  Minh
 
  PS: Everybody knows that Sean Moss-Pultz is Openmoko CEO, but you may also
  be interested to find that many of his past interviews are available here:
  http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Openmoko:Current_events
  http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Press_Coverage
 
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Re: Ask Sean Moss-Pultz about community matters

2008-12-15 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
 i haven't been doing ui's for x/linux for over a decade for nothing :)

I (we) know... I think that your hiring can't be considered a mistake
at all. The best GUI every written for embedded devices (illume) is now
available thanks to your efforts; who knows if it would have been
developed if you wouldn't have been called at Openmoko.
So, working in GUI at the beginning has not been wrong imho. Maybe they
would have had to work more on core-GUI (like illume is) than on other
projects like Locations or Assasin...

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Re: Ask Sean Moss-Pultz about community matters

2008-12-15 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Kosa wrote:
 I know you don't need/have to explan that, and I'm not really sure if 
 I'd like to know
 what happened, but two of the best hackers are gone, and they could have 
 help a lot
 more as full time OM developers.

I'm curious about this too... However I've read their explanations and I
figure that they say everything there.

BTW I'm totally agreeing that great hackers like Harald and Carsten (two
of the best ones working respectively in low-level and GUI things)
should have kept in the conditions to rest.

Maybe Sean could say us something about the management that doesn't seem
to be loved by our hackers...

PS: Ah, why design team is so important to decide about keeping an
un-wanted keyboard like the Qtopia predictive in Om2008?!?

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Re: Ask Sean Moss-Pultz about community matters

2008-12-15 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz

Minh

Can I send this out through our announce list and ask people to email 
questions to you directly? This would probably mean a lot more mail. But 
I think it would also increase the diversity of questions by a lot.

Is this ok with you?

   -Sean


Minh Ha Duong wrote:
 Dear friends,
 
   Sean kindly agreed to be interviewed for the next edition of the Community 
 Update newsletter. I invite every subscriber of this list to post the 
 question or questions that s-he cares about most. No gloves. The general 
 topic is Openmoko, the community, past-present-future, but yours truly will 
 select with undue care the 3-5 most interesting / provocative / popular / 
 relevant / funny / whatever and forward them to Sean next Monday. You may 
 send your questions in this mailing list thread or privately to me.
 
 Minh
 
 PS: Everybody knows that Sean Moss-Pultz is Openmoko CEO, but you may also be 
 interested to find that many of his past interviews are available here:
 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Openmoko:Current_events
 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Press_Coverage
 
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