Community Update Draft

2011-04-12 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi all, since nobody else did for a while, I have taken the 2 minutes to create a new community update page: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/Draft_2011-05-01 Please add your content! Nikolaus ___ Openmoko community mailing

Community update 2009-10-28

2009-10-29 Thread Evgeniy Ginzburg
members. Please do add information to community update draft pages when you have made something new, or want to do it. It's one of the best ways to spread the word about you work. [0] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/2009-10-28 [1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates

Re: Community update 2009-10-28

2009-10-29 Thread Patryk Benderz
Thanks! But I would say there are lot of news this time ;) thanks to all contributors. -- Patryk LeadMan Benderz Linux Registered User #377521 () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments Email secured by Check Point

18th Community Update Released

2009-05-22 Thread sushama
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

Draft of 18th Community Update

2009-05-20 Thread sushama
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

17th Community Update Released

2009-04-30 Thread sushama
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

Draft of 17th community update

2009-04-28 Thread sushama
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

Re: Draft of 17th community update

2009-04-28 Thread Pander
sushama wrote: 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

Re: Draft of 17th community update

2009-04-28 Thread Martin Bernreuther
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

Re: Draft of 17th community update

2009-04-28 Thread Johny Tenfinger
opimd now supports SQLite to store contacts (before there was only SIM and CSV backends), and Messages domain is fixed (but now there is only SIM backend). It still lacks support of editing and deleting items. http://openmoko.opendevice.org/~dos/pim.py - there is some test app. In SHR mrmoku

Re: Draft of 17th community update

2009-04-28 Thread sushama
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

Re: 16th community update released

2009-04-23 Thread Marc Verwerft
Yep , me 2 On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Piotr Duda openm...@nemezis.eu wrote: [...] We will try to find out what people want. Anybody still downloading the GTA01 images? yes, me. and there are others. do not forget about us. regards and best wishes. Piotr

Re: 16th community update released

2009-04-23 Thread Angus Ainslie
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 10:21 +0200, Marc Verwerft wrote: Yep , me 2 On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Piotr Duda openm...@nemezis.eu wrote: [...] We will try to find out what people want. Anybody still downloading the GTA01 images? yes, me. and there are others. do not forget

Re: 16th community update released

2009-04-22 Thread Piotr Duda
[...] We will try to find out what people want. Anybody still downloading the GTA01 images? yes, me. and there are others. do not forget about us. regards and best wishes. Piotr ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

16th community update released

2009-04-17 Thread sushama
Dear All, The 16th community update has been released. There has been lot more activity these weeks with the news of future release schedule and feature list of Om2009,Kernel milestone list for a stable kernel,new mailing list for GTA03 ideas and much more. Read on. http://wiki.openmoko.org

Re: 16th community update released

2009-04-17 Thread Yogiz
Thanks, great interview. On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:30:34 +0800 sushama sush...@openmoko.com wrote: --snip-- I being fairly new to Openmoko, decided to take an interview of Wolfgang Spraul to post for the community update.This answered the questions I had on what work we would be doing post

Draft of 16th community update

2009-04-15 Thread sushama
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

Re: Draft of 16th community update

2009-04-15 Thread Ali
Has qtmoko, qtei, or latest and greatest made it on the community updates yet? If not I can add a little blurb about each. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

15th Community Update Released

2009-04-03 Thread sushama
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

The draft of 15th community update

2009-04-01 Thread sushama
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

Re: The draft of 15th community update

2009-04-01 Thread Paul Fertser
sushama sush...@openmoko.com writes: Please feel free to add/edit contents.I have not been able to gather much information about some distributions. No wonder, never seen you on an IRC channel where most FSO and SHR devs gather and other important dev-related things happen. -- Be free, use

14th Community Update released

2009-03-20 Thread William Lai
Hello lists! Welcome to the 14th community update, covering March 6th ~ 20th, 2009. As always, there was no shortage of news in the past weeks. Distributions including Om2009, Android and Qt Extended Improved all received their share of updates. The first Openmoko Programming Competition

Re: Community update

2009-01-14 Thread Fielder George Dowding
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Christ van Willegen cvwille...@gmail.com wrote: Minh, On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Minh Ha Duong hadu...@centre-cired.fr wrote: 6. Tips and tricks * Howto get the wrench and QWERTY buttons in 2008.12 with the ASU theme. I followed the instructions,

Re: Community update

2009-01-14 Thread William Kenworthy
Try the links here - this list is from gentoo where its built from source, plus there are freeware packages (I looked at the unrar link) for most operating systems. * app-arch/rar Latest version available: 3.8.0 Latest version installed: 3.8.0 Size of downloaded files: 1,576 kB

Re: Community update

2009-01-14 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Fielder George Dowding fgdowd...@gmail.com wrote: Apologies to Christ, that is two l's in Willegen. I hadn't noticed, no offence taken, and my phone now boots with ASU again. Thanks! Christ van Willegen -- 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

Re: Community update

2009-01-13 Thread Yorick Moko
thanks for the update Minh! hadn't heard about Gwaterpas it's been added to opkg now btw On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Minh Ha Duong hadu...@centre-cired.fr wrote: Hi! This is the nineth Community Updates, January 12th issue. For the new year we interviewed Sean on everything that matters

Re: Community update

2009-01-13 Thread Christ van Willegen
Minh, On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Minh Ha Duong hadu...@centre-cired.fr wrote: 6. Tips and tricks * Howto get the wrench and QWERTY buttons in 2008.12 with the ASU theme. I followed the instructions, but misread the second step. It told me to 'put asu in

Community update

2009-01-12 Thread Minh Ha Duong
Hi! This is the nineth Community Updates, January 12th issue. For the new year we interviewed Sean on everything that matters for the community: sales in 2008 were around the low five digits, om-locations is what remains of an ambitious mesh network project, and the most surprising

Community update draft

2009-01-11 Thread Minh Ha Duong
Hi, The draft of next Community update is at: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/January_12th%2C_2009 Everybody is welcome to check for falsehoods, inaccuracies or missing bits of informations. Yours, Minh -- Minh HA DUONG, Chargé de Recherche, CNRS CIRED, Centre International

Community update draft

2008-12-27 Thread haduong
Hello everybody, The DRAFT for next monday's community update is at: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/December_29th%2C_2008 This is a wiki page, everybody is welcome to fix or add as usual. Thanks in advance for your eyetime, Minh

Community update draft

2008-12-13 Thread Minh Ha Duong
Dear peers, The draft of our next Community update is available for review at: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/December_15th%2C_2008 Cordially yours, Minh ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http

Community update, Dec. 1st, 2008

2008-12-01 Thread Minh Ha Duong
Dear friends, Good evening/day/afternoon (whatever your TZ is). This is our sixth community community update. Congratulations to Valério, he won the first 24h-coding prize at Sapo Codebits by turning freerunner in a mouse and gamepad using the accelerometers. Code will be merged with ReMoko

Community update draft

2008-11-29 Thread Minh Ha Duong
Hi guys, As usual, the draft is at: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Updates Please feel free to fix/update/add whatever, the newsletter should go on Monday if all goes well. Yours, Minh ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Community update

2008-11-17 Thread Minh Ha Duong
Hello everybody, and welcome to the Openmoko Community Newsletter, for the November 3th to November 16th timespan. During these two weeks, we had FSO milestone IV and a testing SHR image released. Openmoko pulled the download server offline due to an mp3 copyright issue, they are rebuilding

Re: Next community update

2008-11-16 Thread Yorick Moko
need some really serious coders that don't mind a tough challenge. Best Regards, Wolfgang yorick On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:21 AM, Minh Ha Duong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, Here is the draft for the next Community Update: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Updates

Next community update

2008-11-15 Thread Minh Ha Duong
Hi everybody, Here is the draft for the next Community Update: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Updates To anybody who has started a significant thread or contributed an important information in the mailing list: if you want to see that meme amplified, have a day. Yours, Minh

Re: Next community update

2008-11-15 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:21:38 +0100, Minh Ha Duong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, Here is the draft for the next Community Update: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Updates To anybody who has started a significant thread or contributed an important information

Re: Next community update

2008-11-15 Thread Flyin_bbb8
Under 'Hardware' where you discuss the GSM update you state: The goal is to fix ticket 666 and introduce a new command AT+CSIM. Than means 3G. There will be a self-contained update image that can be copied to a uSD card, then boots from there, and has a simple GUI to kick off the upgrade.

Community update, october 3rd 2008

2008-10-06 Thread Minh Ha Duong
Contents * 1 Distributions * 2 Applications * 3 Hardware * 4 Wiki and community * 5 From the stars * 6 Outside Openmoko [edit] Distributions * The big affair was the release of Om2008.9 Update on September 19th, the dot one ASU. Or was it a big non-event, because

Re: Community update, october 3rd 2008

2008-10-06 Thread Michele Renda
Thank you for this update. It is very nice to have a summary to get an idea about what new there is on OM World. Thank you Michele Renda 2008/10/6 Minh Ha Duong [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Contents * 1 Distributions * 2 Applications * 3 Hardware * 4 Wiki and community * 5 From the

Re: Community update, october 3rd 2008

2008-10-06 Thread Lorn Potter
Minh Ha Duong wrote: * Another big point release: Qtopia 4.4. It's now called Qt Extended, we will need to update that string on about ~100 wiki pages! Qt Extended only refers to versions 4.4.1 and above. Any reference to Qtopia 4.3.x should remain the same. :) -- Lorn 'ljp' Potter

Re: community written community update

2008-09-17 Thread Dale Maggee
Minh Ha Duong wrote: Hi all, We all love Community Updates, but that's a huge endeavour for one person to tackle. So let us try a little social experiment here: community written community update. I just posted an outlined list of bullet points at: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki

Re: community written community update

2008-09-17 Thread Daniel Hedblom
: community written community update. I just posted an outlined list of bullet points at: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/15th_September%2C_2008_-_Activity_since_launch The plan is to leave it to everybody else to elaborate along the following editorial guidelines: 1. Include everything

community written community update

2008-09-15 Thread Minh Ha Duong
Hi all, We all love Community Updates, but that's a huge endeavour for one person to tackle. So let us try a little social experiment here: community written community update. I just posted an outlined list of bullet points at: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/15th_September%2C_2008_

Re: community written community update

2008-09-15 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Minh Ha Duong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, We all love Community Updates, but that's a huge endeavour for one person to tackle. So let us try a little social experiment here: community written community update. I just posted an outlined list of bullet

Re: Community Update???

2008-05-01 Thread Michael Shiloh
Justyn Butler wrote: 2008/4/29 Marco Trevisan (Treviño) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyway I do prefer they're working on shipping the Frerunners to us, than on writing here... Michael Shiloh is the community manager - he keeps the community updated so the devs don't have to take time off from

Re: Community Update???

2008-04-30 Thread Justyn Butler
2008/4/29 Marco Trevisan (Treviño) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyway I do prefer they're working on shipping the Frerunners to us, than on writing here... Michael Shiloh is the community manager - he keeps the community updated so the devs don't have to take time off from developing to do it.

Community Update???

2008-04-29 Thread Andreas Hennig
Hello Steve, Michael, since the last official community update was a few week ago i just have a short question about the status of freerunner. As i understood Steves last Update the PVTs are done and MP is ongoing. OM is just wating for a shipable SW. Did i get thar right? Regards Andreas

Re: Community Update???

2008-04-29 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Andreas Hennig wrote: since the last official community update was a few week ago Months? :o :| Anyway I do prefer they're working on shipping the Frerunners to us, than on writing here... BTW I'd like to read some twitter-form status-mails from them :) -- Treviño's World - Life and Linux

Re: Community Update???

2008-04-29 Thread ramsesoriginal
Whi not have an official openmoko twitter stream? On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Hennig wrote: since the last official community update was a few week ago Months? :o :| Anyway I do prefer they're working on shipping

Re: Community update: Regarding Neo FreeRunner pre-orders

2008-02-26 Thread wim . delvaux
Do not forget shipping costs and problems with repair etc. If you have to keep sending devices back and forth to foreign EU countries. AFAIK, these are much more expensive than in the US. CU W On Monday 25 February 2008 22:48:08 David Pottage wrote: On Monday 25 February 2008, Michael Shiloh

Re[2]: Community update: Regarding Neo FreeRunner pre-orders

2008-02-26 Thread Thomas Christensen
Hello Gabriel, If I'm not totally mistaken, inside the EU sales to private consumers are taxed at the tax-rate of the seller's location. It's a little more complicated than that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_added_tax#European_Union Businesses can be required to register for VAT in EU

Re: Community update: Regarding Neo FreeRunner pre-orders

2008-02-26 Thread Nils Faerber
Marc Verwerft schrieb: Well, I live in Belgium and I can assure you that sales tax here is 21 % as opposed to Germany's 16 % ... It is 19% in Germany since 2007 ;( A lot of people are just crossing the border to Aachen/Koln to find 'cheaper' computer hardware (pc, pda, phone, digital

Re: Community update: Regarding Neo FreeRunner pre-orders

2008-02-26 Thread Nils Faerber
Tilman Baumann schrieb: Marc Verwerft wrote: Well, I live in Belgium and I can assure you that sales tax here is 21 % as opposed to Germany's 16 % ... 16% Not anymore... :( But as afar as i know, you can sell inside the EU to other EU countries and tax where they buyer lives. Don't ask

Re: Community update: Regarding Neo FreeRunner pre-orders

2008-02-26 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hi Duvelle, We should shortly have a list of worldwide distributors on our website, along with instructions for how to apply to become one. Michael Duvelle Jones wrote: I am a little curious to the channels that you do have access to. Being in canada, I am also curious as to if you plan to

Re: Community update: Regarding Neo FreeRunner pre-orders

2008-02-26 Thread ewanm89
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:08:26 + (UTC) Tony SR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steven Le Roux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:14:11 +0100, Richard Bennett richard.bennett at skynet.be wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:48:08 +0100, David Pottage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Community update: Regarding Neo FreeRunner pre-orders

2008-02-25 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hello, A number of times you have asked about pre-orders. Here is the official word from our VP of Marketing: Over the next couple of months you will see the following 3 announcements: 1. When the production hardware is solid and signed off, we will announce pricing and availability. That

Re: Community update: Regarding Neo FreeRunner pre-orders

2008-02-25 Thread Ivo Anjo
3. When the phones reach the distribution centers in Europe and USA, we will open the web store and begin taking orders. Does this mean that it will be possible to purchase openmoko from inside the EU, so there are no random customs taxes? That would be great! Ivo Anjo

Re: Community update: Regarding Neo FreeRunner pre-orders

2008-02-25 Thread Michael Shiloh
Ivo Anjo wrote: 3. When the phones reach the distribution centers in Europe and USA, we will open the web store and begin taking orders. Does this mean that it will be possible to purchase openmoko from inside the EU, so there are no random customs taxes? That would be great! Hi Ivo,

Re: Community update: Regarding Neo FreeRunner pre-orders

2008-02-25 Thread Ivo Anjo
Hi Ivo, That is certainly our intention, which is why we have been trying to set up distributors in as many places as possible. The only one I know of so far is in Germany. Since that's in the EU, that should work for you, right? Yeah, there are no extra taxes on trades inside the EU,

Re: Community update: Regarding Neo FreeRunner pre-orders

2008-02-25 Thread David Pottage
On Monday 25 February 2008, Michael Shiloh wrote: Ivo Anjo wrote: 3. When the phones reach the distribution centers in Europe and USA, we will open the web store and begin taking orders. Does this mean that it will be possible to purchase openmoko from inside the EU, so there are no

Re: Community update: Regarding Neo FreeRunner pre-orders

2008-02-25 Thread Richard Bennett
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:48:08 +0100, David Pottage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If FIC setup a web shop in a European country with a low sales tax rate such as Belgum, Europeans buying Freerunner phones could save around 10% compared with buying from a German web shop. Don't you mean

Re: Community update: Regarding Neo FreeRunner pre-orders

2008-02-25 Thread Ricky Fitz
On Mo, 2008-02-25 at 23:06 +0100, Marc Verwerft wrote: Well, I live in Belgium and I can assure you that sales tax here is 21 % as opposed to Germany's 16 % ... Just to kill your illusion - it is 19 % in germany since the beginning of 2007... ;-) Regards, Ricky. signature.asc Description:

Re: Community update: Regarding Neo FreeRunner pre-orders

2008-02-25 Thread Tilman Baumann
Marc Verwerft wrote: Well, I live in Belgium and I can assure you that sales tax here is 21 % as opposed to Germany's 16 % ... 16% Not anymore... :( But as afar as i know, you can sell inside the EU to other EU countries and tax where they buyer lives. Don't ask me how, but i think there is

Re: Community update: Regarding Neo FreeRunner pre-orders

2008-02-25 Thread Steven Le Roux
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:14:11 +0100, Richard Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:48:08 +0100, David Pottage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If FIC setup a web shop in a European country with a low sales tax rate such as Belgum, Europeans buying Freerunner phones could save

Re: Community update: Regarding Neo FreeRunner pre-orders

2008-02-25 Thread Tony SR
Steven Le Roux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:14:11 +0100, Richard Bennett richard.bennett at skynet.be wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:48:08 +0100, David Pottage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If FIC setup a web shop in a European country with a low sales tax rate such

Re: Community update: Regarding Neo FreeRunner pre-orders

2008-02-25 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
David Pottage ha scritto: If FIC setup a web shop in a European country with a low sales tax rate such as Belgum, Europeans buying Freerunner phones could save around 10% compared with buying from a German web shop. In Italy it's 20%, not the best, but reading I discover that it isn't

Re: Community update: Regarding Neo FreeRunner pre-orders

2008-02-25 Thread Duvelle Jones
I am a little curious to the channels that you do have access to. Being in canada, I am also curious as to if you plan to distribute the FreeRunner in Canada. On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 10:56 -0800, Michael Shiloh wrote: Hello, A number of times you have asked about pre-orders. Here is the official

Re: Community update: Regarding Neo FreeRunner pre-orders

2008-02-25 Thread Antoine Reid
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Duvelle Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a little curious to the channels that you do have access to. Being in canada, I am also curious as to if you plan to distribute the FreeRunner in Canada. +1 for Canada! We can order from the USA and the shipping

Re: Community update: Regarding Neo FreeRunner pre-orders

2008-02-25 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Monday 25 February 2008 23:48:14 Tilman Baumann wrote: Well, I live in Belgium and I can assure you that sales tax here is 21 % as opposed to Germany's 16 % ... 16% Not anymore... :( But as afar as i know, you can sell inside the EU to other EU countries and tax where they buyer lives.

Re: topic for next community update [was Community Update Wed Feb 13 2008]

2008-02-15 Thread Jay Vaughan
For apps, personally (ie, this is just my opinion) I think its fine if we target providing solid very minmal apps initially, again we can point at the memory on the device (it is stacked with memory), the standard X and libs provided, and its upgradability with package granularity to

Re: topic for next community update [was Community Update Wed Feb 13 2008]

2008-02-14 Thread Steven **
It's always been option i. Hence the release of GTA01. Many apps on that are still not polished. It'll be many months after the release of the Freerunner before the phones are ready for basic end users. -Steven On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 2:10 PM, JW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) What is

Community Update Wed Feb 13 2008

2008-02-13 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hi everyone, This is actually a recap of last week in the engineering department. I was away at SCALE and am busy catching up. We received our first batch of 10 fully assembled GTA02 A5 boards. There are still some issues with the manufacturing test software that needs to be fixed before

Re: Brief Community Update, January 24, 2008

2008-01-25 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hi Nils, Sadly, no update on either of those. We're still awaiting positive confirmation from TI for the GSM update, and power management has been prioritized lower than getting GTA02 out of the door. We do hear very clearly that power management is an extremely high concern, and will

Re: Brief Community Update, January 24, 2008

2008-01-25 Thread Nils Faerber
What about the status of open issues like: - in the field firmware update for GSM on GTA01 V3 and V4? - standby power management of GSM in new GSM firmware? Cheers nils Michael Shiloh schrieb: A brief update: 1. Evaluation of GTA02A5 is taking place. There is some excellent discussion on

Brief Community Update, January 24, 2008

2008-01-24 Thread Michael Shiloh
A brief update: 1. Evaluation of GTA02A5 is taking place. There is some excellent discussion on the kernel list, e.g.: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/openmoko-kernel/2008-January/000606.html http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/openmoko-kernel/2008-January/000538.html I believe no

Re: Brief Community Update, January 24, 2008

2008-01-24 Thread Pratul Kalia
As usual, we will not predict how long this will take, nor when we will start shipping GTA02. Waiting, waiting, sincerely... :) Pratul -- dum vivimus, vivamus http://pratul.in ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Brief Community Update, January 24, 2008

2008-01-24 Thread Michael Shiloh
Thanks for your patience and continued support! Pratul Kalia wrote: As usual, we will not predict how long this will take, nor when we will start shipping GTA02. Waiting, waiting, sincerely... :) Pratul ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: Brief Community Update, January 24, 2008

2008-01-24 Thread Steven Le Roux
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:19:48 -0800, Michael Shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A brief update: 1. Evaluation of GTA02A5 is taking place. There is some excellent discussion on the kernel list, e.g.: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/openmoko-kernel/2008-January/000606.html

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-12 Thread Ken Smith
On Jan 11, 2008 12:21 PM, Michael Shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Lon, Will from our office pointed me at these, but that was yesterday and apparently even more have appeared: http://gizmodo.com/341755/openmoko-neo-freerunner-linux-smartphone-hands+on

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-12 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hello, On Jan 12, 2008 7:42 AM, Jeff Andros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: agreed... plus how often does a consumer ready phone get rebooted? last time I did mine was to swap the sim card into my neo In my experience it is like this: Nokia phones needs to be rebooted every week. This has been

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-12 Thread kenneth marken
On Saturday 12 January 2008 07:26:18 Ted Lemon wrote: On Jan 11, 2008, at 3:20 PM, Lon Lentz wrote: I read the not so happy comments following the Gizmodo article. A lot of those comments have been made here on this list. Like the repeated ones about the boot scroll being visible. I

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-12 Thread kenneth marken
On Friday 11 January 2008 23:20:51 Lon Lentz wrote: I would recommend everyone go read Wired's article on the story of the iPhone development. Read about how well their prototype did. Hint: The iPhone didn't magically appear as a finished project out of thin air by shear will power. The

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-12 Thread Zitune
On Jan 12, 2008 3:12 PM, kenneth marken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: imo its a much better feature then looking at a boot graphic that never stops looping and wonder why it does not... For sure, but it seem importqnt to be able to hide the boot scroll for mass market. Not all people are open

Re[2]: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-12 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Ted Lemon wrote: On Jan 11, 2008, at 3:20 PM, Lon Lentz wrote: I read the not so happy comments following the Gizmodo article. A lot of those comments have been made here on this list. Like the repeated ones about the boot scroll being visible. I thought that was weird. The boot

Re: Re[2]: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-12 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hello, On Jan 12, 2008 5:34 PM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, we left that in on purpose -- especially for the geeks. Of course, it's scheduled for removal in a consumer-only release (whenever that may come) release. Well I guess you just can't please everyone :/

Re: Re[2]: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-12 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jan 12, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: And we want the matrix screensaver too. :-) And it can't run down the batteries... :') ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Re[2]: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-12 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jan 12, 2008, at 9:34 AM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: Well I guess you just can't please everyone :/ Sure you can - put a switch in the phone's advanced preferences! :') Anyway, I have always felt that with a little dress-up, the verbose startup could become reassuring rather than

Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008

2008-01-11 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Am 10.01.2008 um 22:20 schrieb Michael Shiloh: We're still testing the hardware and gathering up little issues before determining whether we need to create another version of the board. We still expect to start shipping Neo FreeRunner sometime in the next few months. As always, we can't be

Re: Community update, January 2, 2008

2008-01-11 Thread Michael Shiloh
Joseph Reeves wrote: Hi Michael, Hi Joseph, Going back to your previous email first: Fortunately we have a watchful community to catch our mistakes as quickly as possible! Please continue to let me know if we make such mistakes in the future. Please understand that I wasn't trying to

Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008

2008-01-11 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hi Jay, Thanks for your enthusiasm. Jay Vaughan wrote: We're still testing the hardware and gathering up little issues before determining whether we need to create another version of the board. We still expect to start shipping Neo FreeRunner sometime in the next few months. As always,

Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008

2008-01-11 Thread Brad Midgley
Michael I'm pretty sure that the only new things we mentioned were new hardware features: WiFi, faster processor, 2D/3D accelerator chip, and the accelerometers. ah yes, 3d! It'll be nice to have 3d renderings using something like google earth ;) -- Brad

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-11 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Friday 11 January 2008 21:21:41 Michael Shiloh wrote: Hi Lon, Will from our office pointed me at these, but that was yesterday and apparently even more have appeared: http://gizmodo.com/341755/openmoko-neo-freerunner-linux-smartphone-hands+on

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-11 Thread Nick Guenther
On 1/11/08, Michael Shiloh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Lon, Will from our office pointed me at these, but that was yesterday and apparently even more have appeared: http://gizmodo.com/341755/openmoko-neo-freerunner-linux-smartphone-hands+on

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-11 Thread Shawn Rutledge
On Jan 11, 2008 2:17 PM, Nick Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The comments are.. not so happy. :/ Yeah it didn't make a good impression to show the boot messages, and a buggy crashing version of the UI. It really doesn't make sense, in that the rest of us are getting better results with the

Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008

2008-01-11 Thread Denis
Unfortunately, opengl drivers for the SMedia chip will unlikely be ready by the release of FreeRunner. Only XRender extension is implemented by now. Also, GoogleEarth is closed-source and therefore can not be recompiled for ARM. P.S. Does anyone know whether we'll see accelerated XVideo extension

Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-11 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hi Lon, Will from our office pointed me at these, but that was yesterday and apparently even more have appeared: http://gizmodo.com/341755/openmoko-neo-freerunner-linux-smartphone-hands+on http://takezero.net/3g-and-mobile-news/hands-on-with-fics-openmoko-powered-freerunner-2

Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008

2008-01-11 Thread Michael Shiloh
Hi Brad, I'm pretty sure that the only new things we mentioned were new hardware features: WiFi, faster processor, 2D/3D accelerator chip, and the accelerometers. Fixed GSM firmware is not new because that's already included in GTA01 units (those that shipped after we got the fixed

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-11 Thread Lon Lentz
Thanks, Michael. That was what I was looking for. Geek tech sites covering you guys at the show. I read the not so happy comments following the Gizmodo article. A lot of those comments have been made here on this list. Like the repeated ones about the boot scroll being visible. I would

Re: Videos and pictures of Neo FreeRunner at CES: (was: Re: community update, Thursday, January 10, 2008)

2008-01-11 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jan 11, 2008, at 3:20 PM, Lon Lentz wrote: I read the not so happy comments following the Gizmodo article. A lot of those comments have been made here on this list. Like the repeated ones about the boot scroll being visible. I thought that was weird. The boot scroll is one of my

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