Looking for a mentor for Google SoC - interested in GPS-smart app devel

2007-03-16 Thread Ryan Prior
Dear OpenMoko community, I plan on writing and extending OpenMoko apps to take best advantage of GPS data, providing support to all OpenMoko apps via d-bus and providing useful built-in functions in the base Moko apps. My primary objectives are: 1) Write a library or daemon that provides simple

Fwd: picture viewer

2007-04-20 Thread Ryan Prior
-- Forwarded message -- From: Ryan Prior [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Apr 20, 2007 12:40 PM Subject: Re: picture viewer To: Florent THIERY [EMAIL PROTECTED] If we're going to have a mokofingerwheel on the map interface, why not allow finger wheel up to zoom out and finger wheel down

Re: FIC Fanboys

2007-06-04 Thread Ryan Prior
Any chance we can buy colorful FIC / OpenMoko shirts to display our affection? Cheers, Ryan ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Clarification Rant

2007-06-05 Thread Ryan Prior
I'm in the same situation. I need a phone, no question. The Neo 1973 is the phone I want, no question. The question is this: will the Neo1973 with WiFi be available by the time I cannot live without a phone for any longer? If the answer is no, I will be really disappointed, and it will probably

Re: Preorder

2007-06-07 Thread Ryan Prior
On 6/7/07, Hans van der Merwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other issues worry me - Im in South Africa - whats the PP going to be? Is the price tag really going to be $350? ($50 here or there may break my enthusiasm) I always thought South Africans could drop 3000 rand on a phone and not even

Re: Hi There

2007-06-27 Thread Ryan Prior
On 6/26/07, Rui Moreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi : My name is Rui Moreira and i am a very enthusiastic linux user, i am starting to play around with openmoko using qemu. I am running it on a Fedora 7 box, and the system is very slow... any pointers ? These are suggestions for QEMU use in

Re: Clarification Rant

2007-06-27 Thread Ryan Prior
On 6/6/07, Gabriel Ambuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 06 June 2007 01:12:18 Ryan Prior wrote: I'm in the same situation. I need a phone, no question. The Neo 1973 is the phone I want, no question. The question is this: will the Neo1973 with WiFi be available by the time I cannot

Re: Clarification Rant

2007-06-28 Thread Ryan Prior
for a mobile development company or something, it would be no problem. On 6/27/07, Joe Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Prior writes: If FIC/OpenMoko could run some sort of deal where I could buy the GTA01 for $300 and send it back in for a $150 or $200 upgrade when the GTA02 comes out, I

Re: Guitar Tuner

2007-06-29 Thread Ryan Prior
Whoever gets to it first -- if left up to the core developers, everything more critical than it gets precedence. If somebody from the community (say, a guitar player) decides to take the project and develop it, we'll get the tuner all the sooner. (I'm a poet and didn't even realize it!)

Re: Anti theft protection of our cherished device.

2007-06-30 Thread Ryan Prior
We could do this with GPS, too. You could have the phone export encrypted GPS location data every hour or so, and if you lose your phone then you can use your key to decode the GPS and find it. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: Advertising/hype

2007-07-01 Thread Ryan Prior
Cool idea. I think we should get the press machine turning on the inside, and then set it loose when the Phase 2 is released and ready for prime time. On 7/1/07, Nick Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which brings me to a sudden (though premature) thought I had. I read one or two other posts

Re: Come see OpenMoko at Ubuntu Live

2007-07-03 Thread Ryan Prior
On 7/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey! I just noticed that we are listed on the conference homepage! http://www.ubuntulive.com/ Hopefully this will increase awareness and interest. That probably means that FIC / OpenMoko paid Canonical / Ubuntu a bunch of money --

Re: Come see OpenMoko at Ubuntu Live

2007-07-03 Thread Ryan Prior
On 7/3/07, Ryan Prior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey! I just noticed that we are listed on the conference homepage! http://www.ubuntulive.com/ Hopefully this will increase awareness and interest. That probably means that FIC

Re: Come see OpenMoko at Ubuntu Live

2007-07-03 Thread Ryan Prior
On 7/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenMoko was offered a custom Sponsorship which includes a booth but not a speaking opportunity. However, we are free to organize a BoF. I presume there is interest in such? If so, I'll go ahead and schedule one. I'll go ahead and throw

Re: Backside Interface for Hand-Held devices

2007-07-05 Thread Ryan Prior
A standard drawing pad, such as those used by an artist, is a good example of Claim 1. As a touch-sensitive input device, it causes a change in cursor position and state corresponding with the position at which it is touched. All that differs in Claim 1 of this patent is the stipulation that it

Re: gmail.com problems and this list

2007-07-07 Thread Ryan Prior
Are my emails getting sent twice somehow? I'm using gmail, but have not noticed any duplication or errors. On 7/7/07, David Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone has noticed.. Those of you posting from Gmail accounts are having your emails re-sent every 60-90 minutes. It is decidedly Gmail

Re: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread Ryan Prior
I like the tagline Your phone, your way. The idea is that we are putting the consumer in control - this line may mean different things to a techie and non-techie, but that's okay - it ties in with the spirit of freedom. On 7/16/07, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian Darwin wrote: Call it

Re: Not the free phone

2007-07-16 Thread Ryan Prior
of which, does anybody from FIC's marketing division read this list? If not, perhaps we could invite somebody? On 7/16/07, Giles Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16 Jul 2007, at 19:49, Ryan Prior wrote: I like the tagline Your phone, your way. The idea is that we are putting the consumer

Re: Ubuntu embedded/mobile

2007-09-03 Thread Ryan Prior
The Ubuntu stack is not necessarily designed for phones - it is targeted first at ultramobile PCs and tablet PCs. However, many of the programs that Ubuntu has started should be of benefit to the OpenMoko project. On 9/3/07, Hans van der Merwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Not sure if this has

Re: asking for project

2007-09-12 Thread Ryan Prior
I tend to think that a call router that works via a wifi hotspot would be a really excellent solution. If you can make it work technically, I would go for it. On 9/12/07, Vittoria Cozza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, here again group of computer science student from University of Bari-Itay.

Re: dialer suggestion

2007-09-17 Thread Ryan Prior
I think that would be awesome... that's all have to add, though. If anybody wants to make a fun cosmetic change to the Dialer, this could be a really cool one! On 9/17/07, Joshua Layne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kinda tongue-in-cheek, but... so kinetic scrolling works now and all the 'dialer'

Dual-boot? (was Re: Qtopia coming for Neo1973)

2007-09-18 Thread Ryan Prior
Is there a bootloader option for the Neo that could let developers decide whether to boot into OpenMoko or QTopia? If so, it could provide a convenient fallback option in case tinkering with one of the systems caused it to stop working. You could boot into QTopia to surf the net and debug the

Re: Neo1973 drawings

2007-10-04 Thread Ryan Prior
The openclipart library needs stuff like this! Good submission. On 10/4/07, Ryan Lerch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, if the wiki took SVG, I would have uploaded them there instead of the openclipart library. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:community- [EMAIL

Re: New TOP SECRET OM device??

2007-10-06 Thread Ryan Prior
On 10/6/07, Rodolphe Ortalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le vendredi 05 octobre 2007 à 11:35 -0700, Michael Shiloh a écrit : Ok, that does it. No more pictures for my presentations! From now on my presentation tool will be vi. Hmmm, I wonder if using emacs would not be a better idea for

Re: I'm new in this list

2007-10-12 Thread Ryan Prior
The phone still can't be relied on to make calls. At this point, if you're looking for a phone that you can call with in an emergency or can rely on for business use, OpenMoko is not ready. What is ready is the software stack that will let you hack on the different components and get things

Re: R: I'm new in this list

2007-10-12 Thread Ryan Prior
surprise! It's october 07 right now and the GTA02 is nowhere on the horizon. Again, I am not connected to FIC, but it seems apparent to me that we won't see GTA02s ship within the next 6 months. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: I'm new in this list

2007-10-12 Thread Ryan Prior
The fact is that the first version was put out early so that hardware hackers and developers could get their hands on the phone in advance. The hardware is simply not ready for consumers, but hopefully with the help of all the people who have bought the hardware and are hacking on it we will have

Re: Bi-weekly OpenMoko community update

2007-10-13 Thread Ryan Prior
I'd like to see a package of simply, fully working, high-quality example applications, including tutorials on cross-compiling and linking against different versions of the various OpenMoko libraries. It would provide an excellent starting point for developers such as myself who want to dive in but

Re: I'm new in this list

2007-10-13 Thread Ryan Prior
Nope, no trick. QTopia just doesn't have support for power saving on Neo1973 last I heard, so the battery you're life is the battery life everybody's getting. It is an issue that will be resolved, though. On 10/13/07, Joseph Heenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham Williams wrote: However, I

Re: My head hurts...

2007-10-17 Thread Ryan Prior
Sometimes, these miracles happen. :-) On 10/17/07, Ian Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or should I say, my head is still spinning. I filed a bug report at 10:59 this morning (bug 947). At 11:12 there was a response (Thanks Soeren!) that not only addressed both issues I raised, but provided

Re: Trolltech drops greenphone for OpenMoko (Neo)

2007-10-23 Thread Ryan Prior
Now what I really want to see is a candy bar form factor for an OpenMoko phone from FIC. That would allow the multitudes of developers still interested in that form factor to develop for OpenMoko or QTopia and have a high-quality, open handset to work and innovate on. On 10/23/07, Gerald A [EMAIL

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-11-01 Thread Ryan Prior
How exciting. :-) Let's give OpenMoko a killer GUI, okay? BTW -- does this mean Enlightenment glitz for the Moko UI? On 11/1/07, Sean Moss-Pultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Community, I'm extremely excited to announce that Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) has joined OpenMoko, Inc. The man

Re: Openmoko wallpaper

2008-01-08 Thread Ryan Prior
I don't see what the picture has to do with OpenMoko. It's a neat shot to be sure, but I don't get the correlation. On Jan 8, 2008 12:41 PM, Marcel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've been playing around with my camera at late night and once took an (in my opinion) quite nice shot. Now,

Re: Unbutu mobile

2008-02-26 Thread Ryan Prior
I'm hoping to see small and cool things coming out of Nokia/Trolltech, Intel, Motorola, Asus, and friends these next few years. As the sub-sub-subnotebooks become tinier and skinnier, and the ultramobiles and smartphones get bigger and more powerful, the underlying technologies may converge enough

Re: support win mobile

2008-04-01 Thread Ryan Prior
This really shows how little the OpenMoko community understands the Neo. Why port Windows Mobile when we could be porting Windows 3.1? Windows 3.1 is a lightweight OS which has excellent application support from a broad and stable base of industry, and which has successors which we know to be of

Re: Engineering Driven vs. Community Driven (was Re: Ugliness)

2008-04-27 Thread Ryan Prior
A synopsis: Lowell: Let's make this project community-driven. Steve: Please talk to me about it privately. WTF? On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 2:48 PM, steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lowell, You can send me a personal mail and I will address your concerns. You are a valuable asset in the

Re: Engineering Driven vs. Community Driven (was Re: Ugliness)

2008-04-27 Thread Ryan Prior
the community by asking that person to make their communications private! On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Ian Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Prior wrote: A synopsis: Lowell: Let's make this project community-driven. Steve: Please talk to me about it privately. WTF? Perhaps you

Re: Engineering Driven vs. Community Driven (was Re: Ugliness)

2008-04-28 Thread Ryan Prior
I never said anything about a conspiracy - I just thought I'd point out that it strikes me as strange to respond to somebody's call to open up a process and involve the community by asking that person to make their communications private! So according to you, it should not be possible

Re: Engineering Driven vs. Community Driven (was Re: Ugliness)

2008-04-28 Thread Ryan Prior
with him in private. Sorry that you took it the way you did. -- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Ryan Prior *Sent:* Sunday, April 27, 2008 4:46 PM *To:* List for Openmoko community discussion *Subject:* Re: Engineering

Re: youtube freerunner vid is up

2008-04-30 Thread Ryan Prior
She says it's going to be thinner and then you hear faintly in the background somebody says No, it's not. On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Alexey Feldgendler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:39:07 +0200, steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U05kZfURPig

Re: Group Sales Page

2008-05-05 Thread Ryan Prior
The page is still giving a 404 to me. On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Dirk Deimeke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, But for me, that link is 404 Not Found. The wiki seems to be down. Brenda mentioned in another thread that the wiki was being upgraded. I'm guessing that is in process and is

Re: Software

2008-05-06 Thread Ryan Prior
Perhaps phone-cron needs to be written, to take anacron to the level of task flexibility required for modern cell phones. Cron and anacron are crusty old beasts - we need something fresh and sharp. On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Bastian Muck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: openmoko fans web site

2008-05-08 Thread Ryan Prior
My guess is that it's not up yet; he's yet to create it, and asking for our input as to what it should have. On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Mo Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not working for me either... slashdotted? On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 08:53 -0500, Kosa wrote: not working... Kosa