Re: 2/3: What people want Openmoko to do?

2008-10-12 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wolfgang Spraul wrote: > openmoko-kernel: 640 Wow 640 subscribed on the kernel list? That's a pretty wild number of people taking an interest in a daily flood of very technical stuff specific to Openmoko -- it's about ten times more than I would hav

Re: 2/3: What people want Openmoko to do?

2008-10-12 Thread JW
Rod Whitby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm surprised that the community and devel numbers are so low > considering it is almost 2 years since launch many follow via nabble/gmane I do JW ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmok

Re: 2/3: What people want Openmoko to do?

2008-10-12 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 02:55:04AM +, JW wrote: > Risto, > > I have lost count of the number of people who have said > > * i know linux > * i can develop for the desktop > * i have given up trying to develop for freerunner because the hurdles to > development are too high > > I think Openmok

Re: 2/3: What people want Openmoko to do?

2008-10-12 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Rod, your questions touch marketing territory but I will still try to answer. > It would be very interesting to see the graph of mailing list member > numbers over time and whether it has just not grown very much since > the > launch or whether it grew significantly and has shrunk since. I thin

Re: 2/3: What people want Openmoko to do?

2008-10-12 Thread Rod Whitby
Wolfgang Spraul wrote: >>> Openmoko — how many are subscribed to your email lists? > > announce: 11187 > community: 2240 > devel: 1218 I'm surprised that the community and devel numbers are so low considering it is almost 2 years since launch (for a data point, the nslu2-linux project grew to 900

Re: 2/3: What people want Openmoko to do?

2008-10-12 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Risto, >> Openmoko — how many are subscribed to your email lists? announce: 11187 community: 2240 devel: 1218 openmoko-kernel: 640 We have some statistics at https://monitor.openmoko.org/munin/ The statistics there are very IT/tech focused, but I think roh & gismo will be open-minded to improv

Re: 2/3: What people want Openmoko to do?

2008-10-11 Thread JW
Risto H. Kurppa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Risto, I have lost count of the number of people who have said * i know linux * i can develop for the desktop * i have given up trying to develop for freerunner because the hurdles to development are too high I think Openmoko could employ someone to

Re: 2/3: What people want Openmoko to do?

2008-10-11 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
Whatever you do, there's always someone who doesn't like it. These comments sum to zero so I'll just let you know that the third and the last post has now been released to discuss one of the proposed solutions. Go and find it at planet.openmoko.org r ps. http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/discussion-

Re: 2/3: What people want Openmoko to do?

2008-10-11 Thread justin daly
i, for one, would like to see more community cooperation rather than broadcast disparagement. much thanks go to you, risto, for your selfless contribution trying to unify the community arguments into a cohesive digestible format! may the merit of your generosity ever increase and contribute to the

Re: 2/3: What people want Openmoko to do?

2008-10-11 Thread Aaron Sowry
On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 16:26 +0300, Risto H. Kurppa wrote: > I just was able to release the second part of the posts. For full > version, see > http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/discussion-23-what-people-want-openmoko-to-do/ > > I, for one, would like to see the elimina

2/3: What people want Openmoko to do?

2008-10-11 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
I just was able to release the second part of the posts. For full version, see http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/discussion-23-what-people-want-openmoko-to-do/ This is the part two of the post series discussing the status of the Openmoko community. The discussion is sp