Re: [all / linux] neo as gps unit?

2009-08-22 Thread Stroller

On 21 Aug 2009, at 16:15, Al Johnson wrote:
 On Friday 21 August 2009, Olivier Migeot wrote:
 On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Helge  
 Haftinghelge.haft...@hist.no wrote:
 Could that be the default configuration?

 That would also listen on ppp0. Which could be problematic if - dunno
 if many operators do that - its IP is directly reachable from the  
 Wild
 (i.e. anybody could be able to know where you are... ).

 Then block it in the default iptables rules

Is iptables sure to be running by default?

Stroller.


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Re: Hi

2009-08-22 Thread Michal Brzozowski
Hi,

Most people just use their favorite technology. There is a c++  qt camp,
python  elementary, etc. The phone logic backend uses python and vala, the
lower level c and c++. Since the phone is just like a linux box, you can use
any technologies you want, such as java, ocaml, mono (theoretically, I
haven't tried).

Have look at
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Openmoko_developer_guide

2009/8/22 soumik sur soumik@gmail.com

 Hi guys,

 I am new to this community. I am a software developer from india.
 Would anybody suggest how to begin with.
 What are the technologies and programming languages I have to know to
 contribute in this project?
 Anybody from India in this group?

 Regards,
 Soumik.

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Re: [ALL] New showroom for Openmoko apps

2009-08-22 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 2:17 AM, David Reyes Samblas
Martinezda...@tuxbrain.com wrote:
 Partial success, after installing Jaunty,
 the import proccess apt2db goes ok and I have the example repo in a sqlite
 but the web server doesn't boot up
 here is the error log

I forwarded the error to guys/devels at #getdeb, they said they'd be
able to help with Jaunty. I'll let you know (or you can join the
channel to ask them directly)


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Re: Hi

2009-08-22 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
Hi Soumik!

Depends on what you want to work on, but if you have a freerunner, my
suggestion is to install om2009 unstable there (see
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om2009 ) and contribute to Paroli for a
start (see http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Paroli ). That'd be very
beneficial for many and you'd get easily in in the develpment for
Freerunner.

You're welcome to join #paroli irc-channel for discussion.


(and I know, others will recommend you other distros like SHR or
Debian - but I was first :)

r

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Michal Brzozowskiruso...@poczta.fm wrote:
 Hi,

 Most people just use their favorite technology. There is a c++  qt camp,
 python  elementary, etc. The phone logic backend uses python and vala, the
 lower level c and c++. Since the phone is just like a linux box, you can use
 any technologies you want, such as java, ocaml, mono (theoretically, I
 haven't tried).

 Have look at
 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Openmoko_developer_guide

 2009/8/22 soumik sur soumik@gmail.com

 Hi guys,

 I am new to this community. I am a software developer from india.
 Would anybody suggest how to begin with.
 What are the technologies and programming languages I have to know to
 contribute in this project?
 Anybody from India in this group?

 Regards,
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Re: Bugfix for #1024 (gsm modem re-camping) done

2009-08-22 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi Rainer,

Thanks for sharing your work with us.
Why did you put the capacitor on the right hand side and extended it
with the yellow wire?
The wire might pick up a signal and cause other trouble.
There seems to be room to fit the extra capacitor on the left hand side,
between the two black IC's.

What form factor does the capacitor have? do you have a link to a
reseller of the capacitors?
I am thinking of doing something similar too.
Kind regards,

Ed

Fox Mulder wrote:
 Hi all,

 today i did the rework for bug #1024 to my freerunner. First i tried to
 remove C1009 and replace it with a 22µF capacitor but i had no luck
 getting it off the board with my tools. Maybe it was glued to good and i
 have no smd tweezer iron to heat up both ends of C1009 at the same time.
 So i used the solution where i added a 10µF capacitor parallel to the
 existing one. My rework is based on [1] by Dieter Spaar.

 I documented my rework process with a few pictures available here [2].

 Now i only need a reliable testcase where i can see if the rework helped
 or not. Is there any scenario i can try to find out if #1024 is fixed or
 not?

 Ciao,
  Rainer


 [1] http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/hardware/2009-May/001192.html
 [2] http://quakeman.homelinux.net/bugfix_1024/

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Re: [ALL] New showroom for Openmoko apps

2009-08-22 Thread George Brooke
On Saturday 22 August 2009 00:17:57 David Reyes Samblas Martinez wrote:
 Partial success, after installing Jaunty,
 the import proccess apt2db goes ok and I have the example repo in a sqlite
 but the web server doesn't boot up
 here is the error log
 mut...@iluvatar:~/apt-portal$ ./apt-portal.py playdeb
 /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/sqlalchemy/util.py:7:
 DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated
   import inspect, itertools, new, operator, sets, sys, warnings, weakref
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File ./apt-portal.py, line 274, in module
 cherrypy.quickstart(cherrypy.root, '/', config=conf)
   File /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/cherrypy/__init__.py, line
 248, in quickstart
 engine.start()
   File /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/cherrypy/process/wspbus.py,
 line 184, in start
 self.publish('start')
   File /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/cherrypy/process/wspbus.py,
 line 147, in publish
 output.append(listener(*args, **kwargs))
   File /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/cherrypy/_cpserver.py, line
 90, in start
 ServerAdapter.start(self)
   File /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/cherrypy/process/servers.py,
 line 60, in start
 self.wait()
   File /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/cherrypy/process/servers.py,
 line 95, in wait
 raise self.interrupt
 thread.error: can't start new thread
 Exception in thread HTTPServer Thread-2:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File /usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py, line 525, in __bootstrap_inner
 self.run()
   File /usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py, line 477, in run
 self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
   File /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/cherrypy/process/servers.py,
 line 73, in _start_http_thread
 self.httpserver.start()
   File /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/cherrypy/wsgiserver/__init__.py,
 line 1603, in start
 self.requests.start()
   File /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/cherrypy/wsgiserver/__init__.py,
 line 1300, in start
 worker.start()
   File /usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py, line 471, in start
 _start_new_thread(self.__bootstrap, ())
 error: can't start new thread

I think that cherry py in jaunty doesn't work with python 2.6 if i'm correct 
you'll have to install 
python 2.5 and change the top line to #!/usr/bin/python2.5 (you could check by 
doing python2.5 
./apt-portal.py playdeb obviously)

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First contact with the community

2009-08-22 Thread nacer
Hi all,
I am new to this mailing list. I am Nacer ADAMOU from Cameroon (central 
Africa) and python developer (part of my daily job of linux system and 
network engineer). I am interesting in the openmoko for more than six 
months (qemu simulator, I don't have a real freerunner) and decided to 
be more active in this community. I am waiting for a freerunner phone by 
the begining of the next month, but for now I am wondering how I can be 
helpful quickly to this community.

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Re: First contact with the community

2009-08-22 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
Hi there!

Nice to hear and see new people entering the community!

And it's great that you'll get your unit soon - it just makes more
sense to devel with the unit, not with qemu as you can use the
touchscreen, you feel the speed, accelerometers, everything.

But it all depends on what do you want to do and in what kind of
projects to participate.

First of all, there are many different distributions you can install
on the phone. I myself use OM2009 unstable (see
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om2009 ), some other use SHR, some use
Debian. Also Gentoo, Android, QTextended (or whatever it's called
nowadays), Hackable1, openwrt are around and some more I forgot.

Then there are many applications written primarly for Openmoko phones,
like omgps (see http://code.google.com/p/omgps/ ).

If you want to start contributing and you know python, I suggest you
to have a look at Paroli, the phone application of OM2009. Paroli has
now been written for maybe some 6 months and is quite usable, but
still needs some love before it'll be launched as stable. If you're
interested, have a look at
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om_2009_get_active#Paroli_phone_software
- the work on Paroli will benefit many users and it's a smooth start
for you, for example rewriting the wlan workflow (see
http://www.paroli-project.org/trac/ticket/171 ) or include a bluetooth
support.

You're welcome to join #paroli irc-channel for more questions.

Enjoy your freedom!


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[All] Status of the OM community

2009-08-22 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
Hi there!

After OM announced the discontinuation of the OM software development,
there was this discussion about starting a foundation to support the
community.

What's the status? Any action taken?

I feel like suffering from the unorganized community: the wiki is a
mess, apps around are outdated, no instructions available how to
submit apps to repositories and how to create .bb recipes (I know SHR
has it all better :), how to set up a development environment and so
on. There's also a lack of communication about packages and
dependencies: suddenly some library is updated and it breaks tens of
apps without the author or packager knowing about it.

- Coordination and leadership is needed!

I'm actually very happy that we ('the community') were able to start
running Community Updates without anyone from OM to do it, see
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates

Any ideas?

My suggestion is to start with the cleanup of wiki: separate HW and
SW, separate devel/user information, archive or delete outdated
information, take good care of sites like
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Openmoko:Community_Portal
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Getting_Started_with_your_Neo_FreeRunner
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Introduction

My wish also would be that the (former) OM employees still around
could rewrite/update the parts that concern OM the company in the
wiki.

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[ALL] openbmap logger and quit (power, accidental close, etc...)

2009-08-22 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Hi,

Yesterday night I did about 350 Km of scanning, and the phone was
plugged to an USB car charger I bought (from TuxBrain). Unfortunately,
even though the phone was in charging mode, it seems that while using
the GPS is wastes more battery than the charger can give it, so even though
it lasted longer, somewhere near the end the phone just powered off.

Is there a way to recover the logging that was done and maybe upload it,
or is it all on RAM and tough luck for me?

Thanks,
Rui
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Re: Bugfix for #1024 (gsm modem re-camping) done

2009-08-22 Thread Fox Mulder
Hi,

to be honest i just used the same place that Dieter Spaar used in his
fix from [1]. But one problem i see with moving the cap directly beneath
the existing one is the height. I used a 0805 10µF capacitor which could
fit over the existing resistors but then there is not much space left
between the cap, the upper shielding and the lower resistor. And at the
position to the right there is an empty space on the board so i don't
have to worry what component is below.
If i experience any problems with this solution i will try to use an
0603 10µF cap directly beneath the existing one.

I'm sorry to tell you that i don't have a link to a reseller for my caps
because a friend of mine brought me a few 0805 10µF/22µF and 0603 10µF
capacitors from work. :)

But from Farnell you can get 0603 [2] and 0805 [3] 10µF SMD capacitors.
I don't know if Farnell delivers to normal customers instead of
companies. But i do know that Farnell delivers to students and also
gives them a sales discount of 12%. Alternatively you can get all
Farnell components from the reseller HBE at [4] as normal customer in
germany.

Ciao,
 Rainer

[1]http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/hardware/2009-May/001192.html
[2]http://de.farnell.com/taiyo-yuden/jmk107bj106ma-t/kondensator-0603-10uf-6-3v/dp/1463375
[3]http://de.farnell.com/taiyo-yuden/jmk212bj106kd-t/kondensator-0805-10uf-6-3v-x5r/dp/1463377
[4]http://www.hbe-shop.de/katalog/

Ed Kapitein wrote:
 Hi Rainer,
 
 Thanks for sharing your work with us.
 Why did you put the capacitor on the right hand side and extended it
 with the yellow wire?
 The wire might pick up a signal and cause other trouble.
 There seems to be room to fit the extra capacitor on the left hand side,
 between the two black IC's.
 
 What form factor does the capacitor have? do you have a link to a
 reseller of the capacitors?
 I am thinking of doing something similar too.
 Kind regards,
 
 Ed
 
 Fox Mulder wrote:
 Hi all,

 today i did the rework for bug #1024 to my freerunner. First i tried to
 remove C1009 and replace it with a 22µF capacitor but i had no luck
 getting it off the board with my tools. Maybe it was glued to good and i
 have no smd tweezer iron to heat up both ends of C1009 at the same time.
 So i used the solution where i added a 10µF capacitor parallel to the
 existing one. My rework is based on [1] by Dieter Spaar.

 I documented my rework process with a few pictures available here [2].

 Now i only need a reliable testcase where i can see if the rework helped
 or not. Is there any scenario i can try to find out if #1024 is fixed or
 not?

 Ciao,
  Rainer


 [1] http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/hardware/2009-May/001192.html
 [2] http://quakeman.homelinux.net/bugfix_1024/

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Re: [ALL] openbmap logger and quit (power, accidental close, etc...)

2009-08-22 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On 8/22/09, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org wrote:
 Hi,

 Yesterday night I did about 350 Km of scanning, and the phone was
 plugged to an USB car charger I bought (from TuxBrain). Unfortunately,
 even though the phone was in charging mode, it seems that while using
 the GPS is wastes more battery than the charger can give it, so even though
 it lasted longer, somewhere near the end the phone just powered off.

 Is there a way to recover the logging that was done and maybe upload it,
 or is it all on RAM and tough luck for me?

 Thanks,
 Rui
 --

Just open openBmap and click Upload. Logs are splitten into smaller
files, you'll probably lost only really small part of your logging
near end.


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Re: [ALL] New showroom for Openmoko apps

2009-08-22 Thread List for Openmoko community discussion
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:50:53AM +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:

3) opkg/deb or manuall installation instructions only in first phase
when its unknown package from unknown developer :)

4) then community-editable list of distributions where it works/doesn't
work.

5) same list with sign if its included in standard repo of that distribution 
and if its not included, user should provide a link to distribution bug tracker
where is package request for that application and everyone could provide
bbfile/src.deb as attachment in that bug, its quite easy. Distro
maintainers than could check if that package is really that popular and
if someone from users/developer itself provided working bbfile then commit it 
to
their branch, remove link to bug tracker and set sign, thats already included.

I haven't had time read the entire thread, so this may have been discussed,
but there's so much to read I just need to get this out lest I forget it ;)

Having done some integration work in the past, this idea of distributions
where it works does not sound correct.

Distros have maintainers, which means the distro's software would always
work on the distro or they're doing something wrong. If this would start
off by being about official packages, we would just need one installation
of the site per distro, and show the contents of those distros.

The logical step after that would be to have unofficial packages or
packages recommended for integration or whatever, more-or-less 3rd-party
packages anyway, and by then we'd have the framework in place where
it either installs/works/whatever on a distro or not, and it either gets
displayed on that distro's site or not.

So if we use opkg.org as an example name, we would have om.opkg.org
and shr.opkg.org and friends.

Am I making sense?-)

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Re: [ALL] openbmap logger and quit (power, accidental close, etc...)

2009-08-22 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 12:00:17PM +0200, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote:
 On 8/22/09, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org wrote:
  Hi,
 
  Yesterday night I did about 350 Km of scanning, and the phone was
  plugged to an USB car charger I bought (from TuxBrain). Unfortunately,
  even though the phone was in charging mode, it seems that while using
  the GPS is wastes more battery than the charger can give it, so even though
  it lasted longer, somewhere near the end the phone just powered off.
 
  Is there a way to recover the logging that was done and maybe upload it,
  or is it all on RAM and tough luck for me?
 
 Just open openBmap and click Upload. Logs are splitten into smaller
 files, you'll probably lost only really small part of your logging
 near end.

Ah, good, I feared they were just in memory. Anyways, sniffing around the
files I saw that the maximum GPS speed for logging was 150. erms... I may
have lost some logging...

Anyone knows if can I freely change this value? :)

Rui

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Re: Hi

2009-08-22 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
 On 8/22/09, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote:
 (and I know, others will recommend you other distros like SHR or
 Debian - but I was first :)

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Sebastian
Krzyszkowiakseba.d...@gmail.com wrote:
 Few arguments for SHR over Om2009: more people working on it, develops
 faster, most of decisions are done by community, nice way for sending
 and maintain patches, reachable people maintaining distro (so your app
 can even be added to default image), perspectives for future.  IRC
 channel: #openmoko-cdevel

told you ;)

And just to start the war, wouldn't this mean that we should stop
using Linux since more people are working on Windows. Or ok, only use
Ubuntu and drop others since more people are working on it than others
:) And no new projects can be started as they're smaller etc than the
already existing ones.

And btw, it bugs me a bit that #openmoko-cdevel is concidered to be
SHR only (current topic: Openmoko Community Developer's Channel --
Open developer discussion on all firmware images, packages, and
software | Joint FSO|SHR Users  Developers Convention: Soon talks'
video and slides on
http://www.shr-project.org/trac/wiki/FSOSHRUDCON%2709 | Newest
SHR-unstable ***IMPORTANT NOTICE***: opkg was called opkg-cl, it is
fixed now (opkg[-cl] upgrade). But this is a bit off-topic.. Just had
enough of the 'SHR only' -attitude..



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Re: [ALL] New showroom for Openmoko apps

2009-08-22 Thread Markus T�rnqvist
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:44:35PM +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 04:45:00AM -0500, KaZeR wrote:
 One problem is that distro packaged apps sometimes lag way behind bleeding
 edge. 
 e.g. : navit in SHR : r2309, navit via navit's feed : r2511 : that's quite a
 lot.

I use autorev for navit as one of my tweaks of shr-unstable, so I have
always the latest.

My two cents say something about stability ;)

In a showroom kind of thing it's important to build a community around
what would otherwise be a mod_autoindex list of /pool/ and not so
much take a stance on distro management.

Bleeding-edge distro with even more autorev packages would be great even
for application developers to check their continuous integration and
build problems.

Is there some Open Source tool for doing CI, something that distros
would use already?

I thought for a while Launchpad might be it, but probably not.

With my 2 cents we've 4 already, great! :)

6!

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Re: Getting location info from cell tower

2009-08-22 Thread c_c

Hi,

Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote:
 
 Except cell broadcast channel there is also something like Cell info
 (it was exposed in settings in my Nokia and Motorola phones), and it
 in some networks provide info about location and doesn't have such
 limitation as cell broadcasting.
 
 Is it possible to get  it from Calypso and FSO?
 
  Well, that cell info on nokia and motorola phone is the data from a cell
broadcast service channel providing location data. It works here when I
register for all channels (since I dont know which chaneel the data is sent
on). The very same location info is now shown on the launcher home page.

  Set a listener for org.freesmartphone.ogsmd,
/org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device,  org.freesmartphone.GSM.CB,
SetCellBroadcastSubscriptions and pass the value all.
  You'll get a string with the location.
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Re: [ALL] New showroom for Openmoko apps

2009-08-22 Thread Markus T�rnqvist
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 01:17:57AM +0200, David Reyes Samblas Martinez wrote:
here is the error log
mut...@iluvatar:~/apt-portal$ ./apt-portal.py playdeb
/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/sqlalchemy/util.py:7:
DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated
  import inspect, itertools, new, operator, sets, sys, warnings, weakref
[...]
After some googling I don't find anything about this error, I will try
to dedicate some more time to solve this and if not success maybe I
will do my own php frontend based on the imported table.

This is surprisingly ungooglable!

But what I usually do on new Ubuntus is install python2.5
and (very cruelly) replace the symlink so that
/usr/bin/python - /usr/bin/python2.5

But the other suggestion about hacking the source might be safer,
if Ubuntu is doing something in Python that actually uses 2.6 features ;)

Let us know how it works out!

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Re: Getting location info from cell tower

2009-08-22 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On 8/22/09, c_c cchan...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Hi,

 Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote:

 Except cell broadcast channel there is also something like Cell info
 (it was exposed in settings in my Nokia and Motorola phones), and it
 in some networks provide info about location and doesn't have such
 limitation as cell broadcasting.

 Is it possible to get  it from Calypso and FSO?

   Well, that cell info on nokia and motorola phone is the data from a cell
 broadcast service channel providing location data. It works here when I
 register for all channels (since I dont know which chaneel the data is sent
 on). The very same location info is now shown on the launcher home page.

   Set a listener for org.freesmartphone.ogsmd,
 /org/freesmartphone/GSM/Device,  org.freesmartphone.GSM.CB,
 SetCellBroadcastSubscriptions and pass the value all.
   You'll get a string with the location.
 HTH

I was asking, cause cell info and cell broadcast were two other
functions in all phones i had before Freerunner, and i always had cell
info displayed before cell broadcast came (broadcast was handled as
messages)


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Re: [All] Status of the OM community

2009-08-22 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Risto,

 My wish also would be that the (former) OM employees still around
 could rewrite/update the parts that concern OM the company in the
 wiki.

Can you point me to some parts you would like to see updated?
I'm not with the company anymore for 2 months, but maybe there are
still some things I can help cleaning up.

I agree with you that the community should show more leadership, the
Community News are a great example!
To me the FreeRunner remains the most interesting cell phone to do
hacking on today, even though it's a technical minefield. Or maybe it
is interesting because it is a minefield ;-)
Wolfgang

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 12:34:05PM +0300, Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
 Hi there!
 
 After OM announced the discontinuation of the OM software development,
 there was this discussion about starting a foundation to support the
 community.
 
 What's the status? Any action taken?
 
 I feel like suffering from the unorganized community: the wiki is a
 mess, apps around are outdated, no instructions available how to
 submit apps to repositories and how to create .bb recipes (I know SHR
 has it all better :), how to set up a development environment and so
 on. There's also a lack of communication about packages and
 dependencies: suddenly some library is updated and it breaks tens of
 apps without the author or packager knowing about it.
 
 - Coordination and leadership is needed!
 
 I'm actually very happy that we ('the community') were able to start
 running Community Updates without anyone from OM to do it, see
 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates
 
 Any ideas?
 
 My suggestion is to start with the cleanup of wiki: separate HW and
 SW, separate devel/user information, archive or delete outdated
 information, take good care of sites like
 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Openmoko:Community_Portal
 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Getting_Started_with_your_Neo_FreeRunner
 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Introduction
 
 My wish also would be that the (former) OM employees still around
 could rewrite/update the parts that concern OM the company in the
 wiki.
 
 r
 
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Re: [all / linux] neo as gps unit?

2009-08-22 Thread Al Johnson
On Saturday 22 August 2009, Stroller wrote:
 On 21 Aug 2009, at 16:15, Al Johnson wrote:
  On Friday 21 August 2009, Olivier Migeot wrote:
  On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Helge
 
  Haftinghelge.haft...@hist.no wrote:
  Could that be the default configuration?
 
  That would also listen on ppp0. Which could be problematic if - dunno
  if many operators do that - its IP is directly reachable from the
  Wild
  (i.e. anybody could be able to know where you are... ).
 
  Then block it in the default iptables rules

 Is iptables sure to be running by default?

If it isn't already then it should be, with some sensibly safe defaults. Since 
we're talking about changing default settings I don't see why we shouldn't 
consider the default state of iptables too.

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Re: [da...@tuxbrain.com: Re: [ALL] New showroom for Openmoko apps]

2009-08-22 Thread Joao Pinto
Hello,
I am the apt-portal main developer and I hope I can help extending it
to support your repository.

About the recently reported error when starting the web server, please
make sure you use the cherrypy version provided at getdeb, check :
http://wiki.getdeb.net/apt-portal/Download

The cherrypy version available from the official repository repository
does not work with python2.6 .

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Re: [All] Status of the OM community

2009-08-22 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Wolfgang
Spraulwolfg...@qi-hardware.com wrote:
 Risto,

 My wish also would be that the (former) OM employees still around
 could rewrite/update the parts that concern OM the company in the
 wiki.

 Can you point me to some parts you would like to see updated?
 I'm not with the company anymore for 2 months, but maybe there are
 still some things I can help cleaning up.

Great, thanks!

Maybe you could have a look at these:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Distributions#Official_Openmoko_releases
(what's official any more..)
Official distro also mentioned here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om_2009

http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Introduction - Om doesn't do software any more..
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Regular_Training_Programs - still uprunning?
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Policies
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/FAQ#Openmoko


I'd also like someone to have a pages like:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Openmoko_developer_guide
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Freshman_todo
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Getting_Started_with_your_Neo_FreeRunner
(lots of outdated om2007 or om2008 stuff..)
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Download - tons of outdated information..
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Distributions (what makes SHR and FDOM
(dead?) more from community than for example neovento?

 To me the FreeRunner remains the most interesting cell phone to do
 hacking on today, even though it's a technical minefield. Or maybe it
 is interesting because it is a minefield ;-)

heh :)

btw, found this: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Advertising -
interesting stuff, too bad it hasn't be used for something useful..

r

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Re: [All] Status of the OM community

2009-08-22 Thread Marko Knöbl

 My suggestion is to start with the cleanup of wiki: separate HW and
 SW,

I have already tried to do this with Getting Started with your Neo
1973/Neo FreeRunner. The page Getting Started with your Neo
FreeRunner is obsolete now. Now we have several manuals on the wiki,
which are explicitly separated into device manuals and distribution
manuals.[1] Unfortunately the manuals page is not linked to from the
navigation bar - on the documentation mailing list it was agreed to
have a link, but there are no active wiki sysops to change this.

 separate devel/user information,

This was already discussed several times, but it never really was put
into practice. I had planned to attempt this once again when I have
got more time - But if anybody else would be willing to do this now
that would be great!

 archive or delete outdated
 information,

Some time ago I thought about this too. However this turned out to be
problematic for me: Personally I often have problems to tell whether a
page is up-to-date or not because I don't have enough knowledge in
this topic.
Therefore I'd suggest a different method: Mark pages as maintained if
there are editors who regularly check if they are still up to date and
have a warning on the top of the page if they are not maintained. I'm
currently thinking about a concept on how to realize this - comments
are welcome!

[1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Manuals

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Re: [All] Status of the OM community

2009-08-22 Thread Paul Fertser
Marko Knöbl openmoko.ma...@gmail.com writes:
 archive or delete outdated
 information,

 Some time ago I thought about this too. However this turned out to be
 problematic for me: Personally I often have problems to tell whether a
 page is up-to-date or not because I don't have enough knowledge in
 this topic.

Any page about OM2008.x is outdated. Any page about bluez3 is
outdated.

And i think that any exact recipies are harmful too, users should be
educated instead getting strange and non-tested
instructions. E.g. look at all the pages that mention iptables: lots
of useless commands without any decent explanation.

Also, if you have concerns about technical correctness of any
particular page, i suggest you ask guys on IRC (including me) to
comment on that.

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Re: Hi

2009-08-22 Thread Roland Whitehead
I would recommend that you choose which ever distro keeps their how  
to make your Neo work as a phone for most of the time using this  
distro as well as running other standard services reliably wiki page  
up to date and by up to date I mean referring to which ever is the  
most useable bootloader, build, kernel currently available even if  
that is the daily build. It should also assume that the reader is a  
complete novice and is neither a hacker or a linux sysadmin.

Seeing that none of the distro's really do (seeing that they are  
produced by hackers who are mostly hacking for their own enjoyment  
it's not really surprising and you can't really blame the teams)  
you've got a wide choice.

This remains one of the main requirements of Openmoko in my opinion  
and could be a great way for the non-core-hackers to contribute.


Roland
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 On 8/22/09, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote:
 Hi Soumik!

 Depends on what you want to work on, but if you have a freerunner, my
 suggestion is to install om2009 unstable there (see
 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om2009 ) and contribute to Paroli for a
 start (see http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Paroli ). That'd be very
 beneficial for many and you'd get easily in in the develpment for
 Freerunner.

 You're welcome to join #paroli irc-channel for discussion.


 (and I know, others will recommend you other distros like SHR or
 Debian - but I was first :)

 r


 On 22 Aug 2009, at 11:10, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote

 Few arguments for SHR over Om2009: more people working on it, develops
 faster, most of decisions are done by community, nice way for sending
 and maintain patches, reachable people maintaining distro (so your app
 can even be added to default image), perspectives for future.  IRC
 channel: #openmoko-cdevel

 Decision is up to you, but I prefer SHR. Fast, stable, usable - as
 Om2009, but it has also more things behind scenes which Om2009 don't
 have ;)

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How does well does this community work?

2009-08-22 Thread Roland Whitehead
I am working with the 40 Fires Foundation [http://www.40fires.org] to  
try to build a framework for the development of open source hardware.  
You might have heard that the first project is the hyrban car - a  
car powered by a hydrogen fuel cell - the prototype of which was  
revealed by Riversimple [http://www.riversimple.com] earlier in the  
summer and whose designs have been licensed to 40 Fires. We have had  
input from Mozilla and other software foundations but of course the  
design of something like a car is a little harder to manage as an open  
source project. Openmoko.org is frequently raised in discussions and  
has lead me to push forward a wiki, mailing list and nabble based  
forums. Before we commit to this, how well do you think that this  
technology serves the Openmoko community? If you had the chance to  
build a community for the development of the Openmoko (hardware as  
well as software) what would you do and why?

TIA

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Re: Screen in FR goes black and white after resume from suspend

2009-08-22 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
abatrour abatr...@gmail.com writes:

 RANJAN-3 wrote:
 
  The screen in my FR goes B/W with weird lines after it resumes from
  suspend.Got to know it is WSOD bug (or sometimes resumes in grey scale
  mode)
  .Well temporarily I can change the FR not to suspend but I have to do so
  after every reboot.Any solutions?

 That would happen with mine all the time too. Turns out all you have to do to
 recover from it is put it back into sleep mode and try again. It usually
 takes me 5 or 6 tries to get rid of the wsod.

Do you have omnewrotate running, or is the screen rotated before
suspend for any other reason?

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Re: How does well does this community work?

2009-08-22 Thread rixed
 If you had the chance to  
 build a community for the development of the Openmoko (hardware as  
 well as software) what would you do and why?

My 2 cents : I would open a mailing list _or_ a web forum but not both
to avoid scattering people accross various medias.

Also, maybe we should look for similarities with the gta-core project ?
For instance, maybe you share some needs for some CAD software ?

Anyway, I was unaware of this project. This is incredibly good news.


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[SHR testing] intone requires different e17 lib name

2009-08-22 Thread Marcel
G'evening,

I'm fiddling with SHR (some way to get paroli on it? .) and found that
the opkg.org intone 0.66 package is linked against libe*-ver-svn-02.so.0
sonames but SHR testing contains libe*-ver-pre-01.so.0 libs. Could you
do another special SHR testing build?
(Symlinking all of them to -svn-02 is another solution, but kinda messy,
too...)

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Re: [SHR testing] intone requires different e17 lib name

2009-08-22 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On 8/22/09, Marcel tan...@googlemail.com wrote:
 G'evening,

 I'm fiddling with SHR (some way to get paroli on it? .) and found that
 the opkg.org intone 0.66 package is linked against libe*-ver-svn-02.so.0
 sonames but SHR testing contains libe*-ver-pre-01.so.0 libs. Could you
 do another special SHR testing build?
 (Symlinking all of them to -svn-02 is another solution, but kinda messy,
 too...)

 --
 Marcel

Could you use supported distro? SHR unstable is the way to go - it
works even more stable than testing. And Intone is there by default :P

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Re: [SHR testing] intone requires different e17 lib name

2009-08-22 Thread Marcel
Am Samstag, den 22.08.2009, 20:48 +0200 schrieb Sebastian Krzyszkowiak:
 On 8/22/09, Marcel tan...@googlemail.com wrote:
  G'evening,
 
  I'm fiddling with SHR (some way to get paroli on it? .) and found that
  the opkg.org intone 0.66 package is linked against libe*-ver-svn-02.so.0
  sonames but SHR testing contains libe*-ver-pre-01.so.0 libs. Could you
  do another special SHR testing build?
  (Symlinking all of them to -svn-02 is another solution, but kinda messy,
  too...)
 
  --
  Marcel
 
 Could you use supported distro? SHR unstable is the way to go - it
 works even more stable than testing. And Intone is there by default :P

SHR testing is unsupported, but unstable is? And the latter even more
stable than testing? You SHR folks are strange... Okay, lemme reflash...


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Re: [SHR testing] intone requires different e17 lib name

2009-08-22 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On 8/22/09, Marcel tan...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Am Samstag, den 22.08.2009, 20:48 +0200 schrieb Sebastian Krzyszkowiak:
 On 8/22/09, Marcel tan...@googlemail.com wrote:
  G'evening,
 
  I'm fiddling with SHR (some way to get paroli on it? .) and found that
  the opkg.org intone 0.66 package is linked against libe*-ver-svn-02.so.0
  sonames but SHR testing contains libe*-ver-pre-01.so.0 libs. Could you
  do another special SHR testing build?
  (Symlinking all of them to -svn-02 is another solution, but kinda messy,
  too...)
 
  --
  Marcel

 Could you use supported distro? SHR unstable is the way to go - it
 works even more stable than testing. And Intone is there by default :P

 SHR testing is unsupported, but unstable is? And the latter even more
 stable than testing? You SHR folks are strange... Okay, lemme reflash...

There are just too less hands to work, and maintaining -testing is
hard work. We hope to release new testing image soon, and support it
constantly. But noone knows when it'll finally happen...

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Re: Hi

2009-08-22 Thread levy santanna
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 07:10, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
seba.d...@gmail.comwrote:

 Few arguments for SHR over Om2009: more people working on it, develops


Closer development ... is another characteristic of SHR

 regards,
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Re: Hi

2009-08-22 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On 8/22/09, levy santanna levy.santa...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 07:10, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
 seba.d...@gmail.comwrote:

 Few arguments for SHR over Om2009: more people working on it, develops


 Closer development ... is another characteristic of SHR

  regards,
 Levy.


Closer? In sense less open? I wouldn't say that - for me it looks
like SHR is the most community based (and open) distro out here...

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Re: [ALL] openbmap logger and quit (power, accidental close, etc...)

2009-08-22 Thread Onen
Hi Rui,

Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
 On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 12:00:17PM +0200, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote:
 On 8/22/09, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra r...@1407.org wrote:
 Yesterday night I did about 350 Km of scanning, and the phone was
 plugged to an USB car charger I bought (from TuxBrain). Unfortunately,
 even though the phone was in charging mode, it seems that while using
 the GPS is wastes more battery than the charger can give it, so even though
 it lasted longer, somewhere near the end the phone just powered off.


Surprising. With obm running, my FR charges, when plugged into my car. 
As another response states, maybe your charger brings less power than 
mine...

 Is there a way to recover the logging that was done and maybe upload it,
 or is it all on RAM and tough luck for me?
 Just open openBmap and click Upload. Logs are splitten into smaller
 files, you'll probably lost only really small part of your logging
 near end.
 

That's correct. The only thing that could happen, is that the power was 
lost during a log file being written (one file usually represents about 
5 minutes of logging, but your mileage may vary depending on the density 
of the area you are in). This would leave a truncated file. But even 
though, you should be able to upload it. I guess the server would accept 
it, but then ditch it because malformed. But I am not sure here. Anyway, 
all the other files are located in $HOME/.openBmap/Logs. And are ready 
for upload.

 Ah, good, I feared they were just in memory. Anyways, sniffing around the
 files I saw that the maximum GPS speed for logging was 150. erms... I may
 have lost some logging...
 

:-D No comments ;-)

 Anyone knows if can I freely change this value? :)
 

This one is free to change. Nevertheless, we consider that above this, 
the GPS position becomes inaccurate. Thus we fear this brings only low 
quality data.

Onen

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Re: Android Donut on FreeRunner (was Re: Kernel Mode-Setting (KMS) on Neo FreeRunner + Debian)

2009-08-22 Thread Christopher Friedt
I'm definitely looking into getting in touch with Michael Trimarchi.
I'm interested to see if he can get some of the libglamo / glamo-dri
code to fit in with Android's GL implimentation. If that's the case,
then the FreeRunner graphics might actually speed up a bit (not to
mention how nice it would be to have some of the video operations
accelerated).

Also, thanks for the tip about checkjni - any speedup we can get would
definitely help.

C

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Jim Anconaj...@anconafamily.com wrote:
 AFAIK, Michael still hasn't published his changes in a public repository.

 To improve the speed of the Koolu build, see the patch in this email:
 http://android.koolu.org/pipermail/android-freerunner-koolu.org/2009-July/001149.html

 Jim

 On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Chris Samuelch...@csamuel.org wrote:
 On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:49:09 am Christopher Friedt wrote:

 I've since become a bit fixated with Android Donut on my FreeRunner,
 and am just about finished building an ARMv4T generic version of Donut
 (hopefully everything links ok without relocations!). Next I'll have
 to try to integrate a massive diff of the KoolU-Cupcake changeset with
 Donut (ugghh..).

 I reckon it would be worth looking at pulling in Michael Trimarchi's
 (Panicking) changes too.  He's got echo suppression working, not to mention 
 it
 being much faster than the Koolu builds.

 cheers!
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Re: Android Donut on FreeRunner (was Re: Kernel Mode-Setting (KMS) on Neo FreeRunner + Debian)

2009-08-22 Thread Chris Samuel
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:16:11 am Christopher Friedt wrote:

 I'm definitely looking into getting in touch with Michael Trimarchi.
 I'm interested to see if he can get some of the libglamo / glamo-dri
 code to fit in with Android's GL implimentation.

He has two public git trees which seem to contain his work, might be of use ?

http://panicking.kicks-ass.org/repository.html

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Re: Android Donut on FreeRunner (was Re: Kernel Mode-Setting (KMS) on Neo FreeRunner + Debian)

2009-08-22 Thread Chris Samuel
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:16:11 am Christopher Friedt wrote:

 I'm definitely looking into getting in touch with Michael Trimarchi.

Forgot to mention, he has been active on the Koolu android-freerunner list:

 http://android.koolu.org/listinfo.cgi/android-freerunner-koolu.org

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Re: How does well does this community work?

2009-08-22 Thread Vasco Névoa
That's a though question, especially due to the differences between a 
car and a phone. :)
When it comes to pure Community building, IMHO the leaders seem to be 
Ubuntu; so you should probably talk to Jono Bacon or read his book. ;)
Regarding the Openmoko community, I think it works better now that we 
don't expect anything from Openmoko the company -- this has freed 
everybody to assert their own targets and roads, and get down and dirty 
instead of waiting for the next disclosure. So, not having a benevolent 
dictator over the community makes it proliferate and flourish. On the 
other hand, we now have almost as many distributions as we have phones 
out there. ;) And many of the applications are being redundantly 
developed in parallel, instead of collaboration.
So, my humble advice to you: if 40fires wants a coherent community, 
focused on a small set of defined goals, you must be the benevolent 
dictator and you must have a single communication channel that is 
extremely clear (see linux or perl); if on the contrary, you seek 
variety, chaotic innovation, and surprise, then just throw it up on as 
many channels as you like and watch the feeding frenzy. :)

BTW, congratulations on the project. The world needs it.

Roland Whitehead escreveu:
 I am working with the 40 Fires Foundation [http://www.40fires.org] to  
 try to build a framework for the development of open source hardware.  
 You might have heard that the first project is the hyrban car - a  
 car powered by a hydrogen fuel cell - the prototype of which was  
 revealed by Riversimple [http://www.riversimple.com] earlier in the  
 summer and whose designs have been licensed to 40 Fires. We have had  
 input from Mozilla and other software foundations but of course the  
 design of something like a car is a little harder to manage as an open  
 source project. Openmoko.org is frequently raised in discussions and  
 has lead me to push forward a wiki, mailing list and nabble based  
 forums. Before we commit to this, how well do you think that this  
 technology serves the Openmoko community? If you had the chance to  
 build a community for the development of the Openmoko (hardware as  
 well as software) what would you do and why?

 TIA

 Roland
   

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Re: How does well does this community work?

2009-08-22 Thread Chris Samuel
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:27:20 am Roland Whitehead wrote:

 I am working with the 40 Fires Foundation [http://www.40fires.org] to  
 try to build a framework for the development of open source hardware.  
 You might have heard that the first project is the hyrban car - a  
 car powered by a hydrogen fuel cell

First off this is a great idea!  Best of luck.

Secondly it looks like the RiverSimple website is down. :-(

Another suggestion on getting the word out about the project:

- get accounts on Twitter and Identi.ca (FLOSS friendly version of Twitter)
- Set Identi.ca to sync updates with your Twitter account
- post news headlines to Identi.ca with links to the story
  (use bit.ly to make them short)
- Identi.ca will then sync them through to Twitter

cheers!
Chris (@chris_bloke)
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Re: Hi

2009-08-22 Thread levy santanna
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 17:26, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
seba.d...@gmail.comwrote:

 Closer? In sense less open? I wouldn't say that - for me it looks
 like SHR is the most community based (and open) distro out here...


Yes, less open.
How this distro development is done, today?

regards,
Levy.
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Re: Hi

2009-08-22 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Roland,

 Seeing that none of the distro's really do (seeing that they are  
 produced by hackers who are mostly hacking for their own enjoyment  
 it's not really surprising and you can't really blame the teams)  

I would agree, but what's your solution?
The one idea I have is that maybe stable releases are the common
denominator: Insist on stable interfaces, crystal clear distinction
between stable, testing and unstable branches.
That may be one way to bring the hackers and regular users together,
since I believe at least a large part of hackers understands and
agrees with the value of well maintained stable releases, well tested
upgrade paths from one stable release to the next, a clear process
of how stuff moves from unstable to testing to stable.

It would still require some tough choices though, because there are
some that don't care about stable releases (I'm not blaming them same
as you - they do this for their own enjoyment). Maybe their stuff
stays in unstable forever :-)
What do you think?

Best Regards,
Wolfgang

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 06:16:47PM +0100, Roland Whitehead wrote:
 I would recommend that you choose which ever distro keeps their how  
 to make your Neo work as a phone for most of the time using this  
 distro as well as running other standard services reliably wiki page  
 up to date and by up to date I mean referring to which ever is the  
 most useable bootloader, build, kernel currently available even if  
 that is the daily build. It should also assume that the reader is a  
 complete novice and is neither a hacker or a linux sysadmin.
 
 Seeing that none of the distro's really do (seeing that they are  
 produced by hackers who are mostly hacking for their own enjoyment  
 it's not really surprising and you can't really blame the teams)  
 you've got a wide choice.
 
 This remains one of the main requirements of Openmoko in my opinion  
 and could be a great way for the non-core-hackers to contribute.
 
 
 Roland
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  On 8/22/09, Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi wrote:
  Hi Soumik!
 
  Depends on what you want to work on, but if you have a freerunner, my
  suggestion is to install om2009 unstable there (see
  http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om2009 ) and contribute to Paroli for a
  start (see http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Paroli ). That'd be very
  beneficial for many and you'd get easily in in the develpment for
  Freerunner.
 
  You're welcome to join #paroli irc-channel for discussion.
 
 
  (and I know, others will recommend you other distros like SHR or
  Debian - but I was first :)
 
  r
 
 
  On 22 Aug 2009, at 11:10, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote
 
  Few arguments for SHR over Om2009: more people working on it, develops
  faster, most of decisions are done by community, nice way for sending
  and maintain patches, reachable people maintaining distro (so your app
  can even be added to default image), perspectives for future.  IRC
  channel: #openmoko-cdevel
 
  Decision is up to you, but I prefer SHR. Fast, stable, usable - as
  Om2009, but it has also more things behind scenes which Om2009 don't
  have ;)
 
  -- 
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  dos
 
 
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Re: How does well does this community work?

2009-08-22 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
kind of off-topic but also check this as your sister-project:
http://www.sahkoautot.fi/eng
- A community took an Corolla and are converting it to an electric
car. The plan is to release all specs to the public so anyone could do
it. The content of the site is already cc-by-sa.

r

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