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