18th Community Update Released
Dear All, Here is the 18th community update for the period May 1st to May 22, 2009. This update has news about various distributions, applications and also new applications that have been released in this period. In the distribution side Hackable:1, Neovento has new release and Om2009 has the latest testing image -4 which was released today. There are a lot more application updates as well.You can read all this and more here http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/May_22%2C_2009. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this . Regards, Sushama ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Draft of 18th Community Update
Hi All, The draft for the 18th community update can be found here : http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/May_22%2C_2009 Please feel free to add/edit any more information to the page.This update is for the period from May 1st 2009 to May 22nd 2009.The update will be released on May 22nd. Regards, Sushama ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
17th Community Update Released
Dear All, The 17th Community Update has been released. We have news from various distributions like the koolu releasing beta 6, SHR unstable to testing,Om2009, Qt Extended and aumid. Also, the application updates, events, new applications and so on. You can read the complete update from the link. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/April_30%2C_2009 Regards, Sushama ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Draft of 17th community update
Dear All, The draft of 17th community update is available here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/April_30%2C_2009 Please feel free to add/edit any information that I have missed out. This update is for the period from April 18th to April 30th.The update will be released on April 30th. Regards, Sushama ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Draft of 17th community update
Martin Bernreuther wrote: Hello, Am Dienstag, 28. April 2009 schrieb sushama: The draft of 17th community update is available here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/April_30%2C_2009 Please feel free to add/edit any information that I have missed out. This update is for the period from April 18th to April 30th.The update will be released on April 30th. looking at http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page the Latest News shows a link to http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/April_05%2C_2009 and the News in the Community box on the left point to http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/March_20%2C_2009 If there's some automatic update routine, it already missed to put the 16th(?) community update to the news section: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/April_17%2C_2009? Regards, Martin ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community Hello, Sorry about that. I am just waiting to get the access to edit those pages. Will update these information as soon as I get that. Thankyou. Regards, Sushama ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Neofreerunner Twitter
Deal All, Neofreerunner is now on Twitter! https://twitter.com/neofreerunner Neofreerunner twitter helps all to communicate with our ever expanding community and exchange as much as information, news, updates, testing experiences and not to forget the jokes.We would be updating tweets timely as and when we have any, including internal happenings in Openmoko office :). This would be a lot more fun too. If you are on twitter do not forget to follow neofreerunner and tweet us whenever you like. Regards, Sushama ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
16th community update released
Commons Share-Alike license, hardware schematics, even our complete production testing software. I hope we will continue to do so for future devices. The limits of this kind of openness have by far not been reached yet - there are a number of closed firmwares still (Wi-Fi, GPS, GSM), even Openmoko hasn't released the hardware GERBER files under an open license, etc. A third definition I see on the horizon is 'open' as in interoperability between devices. More and more computing devices have RF built in. Maybe one day, people will say a device is 'open' if it can interact with many other devices. If it cannot, or can only interact with other devices from the same company, people may see the device as 'closed'. This is a definition I believe Openmoko should pay attention to, if RF interfaces are locked down by other vendors (even if restricted programming APIs are available), Openmoko devices could be different, and interesting applications would become possible. 6) What are the recent organizational changes wrt to engineering? The biggest change is that my engineering budget was cut a lot, and my job was to implement those cuts. We tried to do that in a way that would focus the money in areas where the community is weakest, such as hardware, or where we could enable others, such as the Om2009 distribution, daily builds and kernel work. 7) What is the work currently happening wrt GTA02 improvements ? There is a big push towards Om2009, a new software we hope to release in June or July. Also we are still trying to track down some more GSM Calypso bugs, such as the well-known #1024 recamping, and also some GPRS instability problems we have found out about recently. Other than that - fixing bugs from trac. 8) If paroli is the answer to above .Then does paroli address all the major issues we had in Om2008 releases? I think the major issues we had with Om2008 were kernel related. Paroli is a new telephony application, written in Python on top of FSO and thus much more modular and extensible than what we had with Qtopia in Om2008. As for the Om20008 kernel bugs, yes, I believe the state of our kernel now is much better than it was in 2008, hopefully we can keep it there and fix some more bugs until the release. 9)More on Plan B and when it is expected? I thought it's an open hair straightener? 10) What is the future of Om2009 after june release,will it continue with regular updates? We will try to find out what people want. Anybody still downloading the GTA01 images? Should we rather focus on the kernel and support other distributions, or do more application level work? etc. What makes the real Free Sofware world so different is the degree of modularity that you can find for example in something like Debian. It's the result of endless experiments, ripping and mixing, forking, branching, arguments over which direction a particular piece of software should take, etc. So I'm not worried if Openmoko's software activities look less thought through, or more chaotic, than for example Android. We are constantly measuring the pulse of the community, where things are headed - should we switch from ETK to Elementary, should we go back from Paroli to Tichy, from Python to Vala, and so on. 11) Will openmoko continue work on any phone projects that is intended for general users after plan B? Oh definitely. Openmoko has created so much momentum, both as a brand and in terms of people, current and former. Many of these people have learnt a lot, they are now inside or outside of Openmoko, and they are passionate about making open devices. I'm not sure whether it will be a feature phone, or smart phone. Based around an ARM core or maybe MIPS core (some MIPS companies are eager to enter the cell phone space). We will try to be much smarter in using partners and recycling existing stuff, whether that's GTA02, or even Android. But when it ships, it needs to be the most open phone out there, and it needs to have the best hardware quality of any phone. That's something we learnt the hard way with GTA01 and GTA02. Where a typical phone company would cover up hardware problems with software workarounds, in an open phone that's not really possible because the whole point of openness is that you can take it and do new things. But then how can the hardware manufacturer foresee and test all these unexpected new things? Next time around we will need to be much smarter about this. Rather just ship a phone with 2 features that are deeply and thoroughly tested, than 10 features that are just quickly thrown together. The quality requirements of future phones are also the reason why I enjoy cleaning up and fixing GTA02 now. Both hardware and software problems. Cleaning up the mess you created yourself is one of the best ways to reflect, learn, and be ready to do better next time. Regards, Sushama ___ Openmoko community mailing list
Draft of 16th community update
Dear All, The draft for the 16th community update can be found here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/April_17%2C_2009 If there is some information I have missed out, please feel free to add/edit to the page.This update is for the period from April 04th to April 17th.The update will be released on Friday, April 17th Thanks and Regards, Sushama ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
15th Community Update Released
Hi All, Thank you for the contributions. The 15th community update newsletter has been released and can be found here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/April_05%2C_2009 This update is for the period from March 20th - 03rd April 2009 As always we have more new applications,updates to some of the previous ones and more events that are happening.The last major event that happened was the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose where Sean Moss-Pultz presented the FreeRunner mobile phone to designers and engineers. There has also been quiet bit of news with the buzz fix and the talk that Sean gave at the Openexpo- the challenges Openmoko faced and the future of it. Gta03 being no more,what we can look for in the future and the recent developments within Openmoko. Thanks and Regards, Sushama ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
The draft of 15th community update
Dear All, The draft for the 15th community update can be found here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/April_05%2C_2009 Please feel free to add/edit contents.I have not been able to gather much information about some distributions.If anyone could add some information regarding the same or anything else that I have missed out would be of great help. Thanks and Regards, Sushama ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
New Mailing List- Testing
Dear Community, Its my pleasure to announce this new mailing list 'Testing'. You can subscribe to this mailing list from : http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/testing The idea behind starting this mailing list is to filter out the testing related issues/discussions that happen in devel or community mailing list. We invite all the community members to join force in helping us test and provide more bug reports in making Openmoko a robust product.Thanks to every one for all the support and involvement we have had till now and hoping to have this continued support through this new mailing list. Your bug reports and comments will help us prioritize where we focus our resources.This will go a long way in helping us to test the products and having an open phone as robust as this which we are all dreaming of. There are many tricky issues that cannot be verified with a few phones/tests. In this scenario, hence it would become more meaningful if we as Openmoko and the community can verify this together. We can also have our testing reports/plan/test design sent out to the mailing list as and when we update them so that we can have all your feedback in helping us achieve our common goal, which is - Robust Freed Phone. See you all in the new mailing list with lots more discussions to shape up the future of an open phone. Regards, Sushama ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
