Re: FSO core team founds BGB company
On Wednesday 29 July 2009 18:41:23 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 05:51:20PM +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > > decided to incorporate the FSO middleware", says Dr. Michael Lauer, > > LOL each time I read this part I always read "Dr. Mickey Lauer" ;) :)) Thanks for all the congrats! :M: ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FSO core team founds BGB company
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > Braunschweig, Germany, 2009-07-29. For immediate release. > > The freesmartphone.org core-team founds a BGB company to facilitate > the further development of free and open source middleware for > Linux-based mobile systems: "Lauer, Lübbe, Schmidt, Willmann, > freesmartphone.org GbR". > Congratulations.. This is really good news Regards Sudharshan S Blog : http://www.sudharsh.wordpress.com ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FSO core team founds BGB company
Hello. On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 10:08, arne anka wrote: > all the best to you guys! > > > Congratulations! I hope everything goes well with the company. Is there > > a way > > to make tax deductible donations? > > hardly, what with being a bgb company. Indeed, no tax deductible donations. We only have a paypal account for normal donations. > but do you guys have a list of tasks with a price tag each? > people could vote for tasks most important and chip in to pay. We thought about that and we need to think about it again. A big problem is the overhead of managing all the small donations. I could imagine that we could bundle such donation-for-feature thing within our milestone releases. We would work out the feature set for the next milestone with the community and if people feel that this milestone did bring them the feature they always wanted, they make a donation. As I said. We need to think about it. I also have to mention that we already got a quite big donation from the freeyourphone.de community. Thanks for that guys. Also small feature request will often go in during the day by day work. It's not like we stopped all work beside paid one. We are still working through the bugtracker for fixes and enhancements and always looking forward to patches. regards Stefan Schmidt ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FSO core team founds BGB company
Congratulations as well! FSO has certainly been the thing that has kept me the most excited and intrigued with the openmoko and it's software stack. The work has been done very professionally and is exactly what was needed to progress the world of open smartphones. I can only hope that more people will see the FSO stack and want to adopt it into their products. Creating this legal entity to showcase the work is an excellent step. -Dan Staley On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Stefan Schmidt wrote: > Hello. > > On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 00:47, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote: > > > > Could I hire you to work on opimd? :D > > Sure, we could pass it over to the head developer of it behind your back. > ;) > > > But seriously - I hope some people or companies will be really > > interested in FSO and thus development will be faster. Even if > > neighter frameworkd nor cornucopia will be popular, I hope > > freesmartphone.org specification will live long. And I really hope you > > guys will be able to work on FSO as your primary job :) > > That would be great, but for the time being some project work around it > would > already be nice. :) > > regards > Stefan Schmidt > > ___ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FSO core team founds BGB company
Hello. On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 00:47, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote: > > Could I hire you to work on opimd? :D Sure, we could pass it over to the head developer of it behind your back. ;) > But seriously - I hope some people or companies will be really > interested in FSO and thus development will be faster. Even if > neighter frameworkd nor cornucopia will be popular, I hope > freesmartphone.org specification will live long. And I really hope you > guys will be able to work on FSO as your primary job :) That would be great, but for the time being some project work around it would already be nice. :) regards Stefan Schmidt ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FSO core team founds BGB company
Congratulations! FSO in my opinion is one of the best thing happened to Openmoko! Good luck! Leonti ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FSO core team founds BGB company
Am Donnerstag 30. Juli 2009 12:18:14 schrieb arne anka: > > well, with a name like > "Lauer, Lübbe, Schmidt, Willmann, freesmartphone.org GbR". > it's hard to say ... ;-) There you are, you tiny little GbR! To say it in german: "Argh...!" ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FSO core team founds BGB company
>> hardly, what with being a bgb company. >> > > Which type of german company is it? GbR? well, with a name like "Lauer, Lübbe, Schmidt, Willmann, freesmartphone.org GbR". it's hard to say ... ;-) ___ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FSO core team founds BGB company
2009/7/30 Fabian Schölzel > Am Donnerstag 30. Juli 2009 10:08:56 schrieb arne anka: > > > > hardly, what with being a bgb company. > > > > Which type of german company is it? GbR? > > __ > some info: http://www.gtai.com/homepage/investment-guide-to-germany/establishing-a-company/the-legal-form/ and http://82.98.75.88/homepage/investment-guide-to-germany/establishing-a-company/the-legal-form/partnerships/ ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FSO core team founds BGB company
Am Donnerstag 30. Juli 2009 10:08:56 schrieb arne anka: > > hardly, what with being a bgb company. > Which type of german company is it? GbR? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FSO core team founds BGB company
all the best to you guys! > Congratulations! I hope everything goes well with the company. Is there > a way > to make tax deductible donations? hardly, what with being a bgb company. but do you guys have a list of tasks with a price tag each? people could vote for tasks most important and chip in to pay. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FSO core team founds BGB company
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Re: FSO core team founds BGB company
Hi, Congrats and best wishes. Hope FSO goes a long way :-) -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/FSO-core-team-founds-BGB-company-tp3350707p3353770.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FSO core team founds BGB company
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 17:51, Michael 'Mickey'
Lauer wrote:
> Braunschweig, Germany, 2009-07-29. For immediate release.
>
> The freesmartphone.org core-team founds a BGB company to facilitate
> the further development of free and open source middleware for
> Linux-based mobile systems: "Lauer, Lübbe, Schmidt, Willmann,
> freesmartphone.org GbR".
>
> The core-team members of the freesmartphone.org project today announced
> the founding of a legal entity offering consulting, training, and
> implementation services around the freesmartphone.org middleware
> platform, also known as FSO[1].
>
> "We now have a single point of contact for both commercial and
> non-commercial parties who want to use our services to create compelling
> solutions. This is of interest for groups or individuals creating new
> devices or freeing existing devices ("anti-vendor-ports") and who
> decided to incorporate the FSO middleware", says Dr. Michael Lauer,
> founder of the FSO project. "If you care about the further development
> of this platform or if you need guidance for tailoring or customizing
> the FSO middleware, contact us via E-Mail at
> coret...@freesmartphone.org".
>
> With todays' smartphones evolving into ubiquituous companions, a gap has
> emerged between widely used FOSS components like the Linux kernel and
> core system libraries on one side, and end-user applications on the
> other side. The lack of a complete free mobile software stack hinders
> innovation and leads to reinventing proprietary solutions for services
> middleware.
>
> FSO's mission is to close this gap by designing and developing solid
> middleware for mobile systems in an open fashion; this refers to not
> only publishing source code under open source licenses, but also to
> sharing the whole design and development process with the community and
> giving both commercial and non-commercial entities a way to co-drive and
> steer the process.
>
> Built on top of the Linux kernel, FSO implements high level services for
> mobile application development, accessible via the DBus interprocess
> communication standard. Leveraging the FSO APIs allows the developer to
> concentrate on solving application domain problems, such as business
> logic and presentation of data, without having to worry about the device
> specifics and low level details, such as how to access resources,
> telephony, location awareness, data storage, etc.
>
> About freesmartphone.org:
> Previously funded by Openmoko Inc, freesmartphone.org is a collaboration
> platform for open source and open discussion software projects working
> on interoperability and shared technology for Linux-based smartphones.
> freesmartphone.org operates on the services layer (middleware) and
> offers APIs and reference implementations that support modern
> interconnected mobile devices. To provide reference solutions,
> freesmartphone.org works closely together with various device-specific
> communities such as the Openmoko, OpenEZX, and HTC-Linux groups. The FSO
> team honours and bases on specifications and software created by the
> freedesktop.org community.
>
> [1] http://www.freesmartphone.org
Could I hire you to work on opimd? :D
But seriously - I hope some people or companies will be really
interested in FSO and thus development will be faster. Even if
neighter frameworkd nor cornucopia will be popular, I hope
freesmartphone.org specification will live long. And I really hope you
guys will be able to work on FSO as your primary job :)
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Re: FSO core team founds BGB company
Congrats 2009/7/29 Fabian Schölzel > Am Mittwoch 29. Juli 2009 17:51:20 schrieb Michael 'Mickey' Lauer: > > > > The core-team members of the freesmartphone.org project today announced > > the founding of a legal entity offering consulting, training, and > > implementation services around the freesmartphone.org middleware > > platform, also known as FSO[1]. > > Congratulations! I hope everything goes well with the company. Is there a > way > to make tax deductible donations? > > -- > Fabian > > ___ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > -- ___ Rafael Campos o0 Methril 0o http://openblog.methril.net/ ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FSO core team founds BGB company
Am Mittwoch 29. Juli 2009 17:51:20 schrieb Michael 'Mickey' Lauer: > > The core-team members of the freesmartphone.org project today announced > the founding of a legal entity offering consulting, training, and > implementation services around the freesmartphone.org middleware > platform, also known as FSO[1]. Congratulations! I hope everything goes well with the company. Is there a way to make tax deductible donations? -- Fabian ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FSO core team founds BGB company
Really great news :) I wish you all the best
2009/7/29 Pieter Colpaert :
> +1!
> On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 00:33 +0800, Wolfgang Spraul wrote:
>> Mickey, Stefan, Daniel and Jan,
>>
>> congratulations!
>> I wish you all the best, both from a free software and business perspective
>> it's so important to avoid the mobile Android monoculture :-)
>>
>> Way to go FSO, we will do what we can to support you guys.
>> Wolfgang
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 05:51:20PM +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
>> > Braunschweig, Germany, 2009-07-29. For immediate release.
>> >
>> > The freesmartphone.org core-team founds a BGB company to facilitate
>> > the further development of free and open source middleware for
>> > Linux-based mobile systems: "Lauer, Lbbe, Schmidt, Willmann,
>> > freesmartphone.org GbR".
>> >
>> > The core-team members of the freesmartphone.org project today announced
>> > the founding of a legal entity offering consulting, training, and
>> > implementation services around the freesmartphone.org middleware
>> > platform, also known as FSO[1].
>> >
>> > "We now have a single point of contact for both commercial and
>> > non-commercial parties who want to use our services to create compelling
>> > solutions. This is of interest for groups or individuals creating new
>> > devices or freeing existing devices ("anti-vendor-ports") and who
>> > decided to incorporate the FSO middleware", says Dr. Michael Lauer,
>> > founder of the FSO project. "If you care about the further development
>> > of this platform or if you need guidance for tailoring or customizing
>> > the FSO middleware, contact us via E-Mail at
>> > coret...@freesmartphone.org".
>> >
>> > With todays' smartphones evolving into ubiquituous companions, a gap has
>> > emerged between widely used FOSS components like the Linux kernel and
>> > core system libraries on one side, and end-user applications on the
>> > other side. The lack of a complete free mobile software stack hinders
>> > innovation and leads to reinventing proprietary solutions for services
>> > middleware.
>> >
>> > FSO's mission is to close this gap by designing and developing solid
>> > middleware for mobile systems in an open fashion; this refers to not
>> > only publishing source code under open source licenses, but also to
>> > sharing the whole design and development process with the community and
>> > giving both commercial and non-commercial entities a way to co-drive and
>> > steer the process.
>> >
>> > Built on top of the Linux kernel, FSO implements high level services for
>> > mobile application development, accessible via the DBus interprocess
>> > communication standard. Leveraging the FSO APIs allows the developer to
>> > concentrate on solving application domain problems, such as business
>> > logic and presentation of data, without having to worry about the device
>> > specifics and low level details, such as how to access resources,
>> > telephony, location awareness, data storage, etc.
>> >
>> > About freesmartphone.org:
>> > Previously funded by Openmoko Inc, freesmartphone.org is a collaboration
>> > platform for open source and open discussion software projects working
>> > on interoperability and shared technology for Linux-based smartphones.
>> > freesmartphone.org operates on the services layer (middleware) and
>> > offers APIs and reference implementations that support modern
>> > interconnected mobile devices. To provide reference solutions,
>> > freesmartphone.org works closely together with various device-specific
>> > communities such as the Openmoko, OpenEZX, and HTC-Linux groups. The FSO
>> > team honours and bases on specifications and software created by the
>> > freedesktop.org community.
>> >
>> > [1] http://www.freesmartphone.org
>> >
>> >
>> >
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Re: FSO core team founds BGB company
+1!
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 00:33 +0800, Wolfgang Spraul wrote:
> Mickey, Stefan, Daniel and Jan,
>
> congratulations!
> I wish you all the best, both from a free software and business perspective
> it's so important to avoid the mobile Android monoculture :-)
>
> Way to go FSO, we will do what we can to support you guys.
> Wolfgang
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 05:51:20PM +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> > Braunschweig, Germany, 2009-07-29. For immediate release.
> >
> > The freesmartphone.org core-team founds a BGB company to facilitate
> > the further development of free and open source middleware for
> > Linux-based mobile systems: "Lauer, Lbbe, Schmidt, Willmann,
> > freesmartphone.org GbR".
> >
> > The core-team members of the freesmartphone.org project today announced
> > the founding of a legal entity offering consulting, training, and
> > implementation services around the freesmartphone.org middleware
> > platform, also known as FSO[1].
> >
> > "We now have a single point of contact for both commercial and
> > non-commercial parties who want to use our services to create compelling
> > solutions. This is of interest for groups or individuals creating new
> > devices or freeing existing devices ("anti-vendor-ports") and who
> > decided to incorporate the FSO middleware", says Dr. Michael Lauer,
> > founder of the FSO project. "If you care about the further development
> > of this platform or if you need guidance for tailoring or customizing
> > the FSO middleware, contact us via E-Mail at
> > coret...@freesmartphone.org".
> >
> > With todays' smartphones evolving into ubiquituous companions, a gap has
> > emerged between widely used FOSS components like the Linux kernel and
> > core system libraries on one side, and end-user applications on the
> > other side. The lack of a complete free mobile software stack hinders
> > innovation and leads to reinventing proprietary solutions for services
> > middleware.
> >
> > FSO's mission is to close this gap by designing and developing solid
> > middleware for mobile systems in an open fashion; this refers to not
> > only publishing source code under open source licenses, but also to
> > sharing the whole design and development process with the community and
> > giving both commercial and non-commercial entities a way to co-drive and
> > steer the process.
> >
> > Built on top of the Linux kernel, FSO implements high level services for
> > mobile application development, accessible via the DBus interprocess
> > communication standard. Leveraging the FSO APIs allows the developer to
> > concentrate on solving application domain problems, such as business
> > logic and presentation of data, without having to worry about the device
> > specifics and low level details, such as how to access resources,
> > telephony, location awareness, data storage, etc.
> >
> > About freesmartphone.org:
> > Previously funded by Openmoko Inc, freesmartphone.org is a collaboration
> > platform for open source and open discussion software projects working
> > on interoperability and shared technology for Linux-based smartphones.
> > freesmartphone.org operates on the services layer (middleware) and
> > offers APIs and reference implementations that support modern
> > interconnected mobile devices. To provide reference solutions,
> > freesmartphone.org works closely together with various device-specific
> > communities such as the Openmoko, OpenEZX, and HTC-Linux groups. The FSO
> > team honours and bases on specifications and software created by the
> > freedesktop.org community.
> >
> > [1] http://www.freesmartphone.org
> >
> >
> >
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Re: FSO core team founds BGB company
Congratulations Mickey.
Qi hardware supports your efforts and if there is anything we can do to
assist you just
let us know. There is a freesmartphone in Qi's future, hopefully sooner
than people expect.
FSO would be a vital part of that. I'll have mirko add your organizations
to our list of links.
Steve
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <
mic...@vanille-media.de> wrote:
> Braunschweig, Germany, 2009-07-29. For immediate release.
>
> The freesmartphone.org core-team founds a BGB company to facilitate
> the further development of free and open source middleware for
> Linux-based mobile systems: "Lauer, Lübbe, Schmidt, Willmann,
> freesmartphone.org GbR".
>
> The core-team members of the freesmartphone.org project today announced
> the founding of a legal entity offering consulting, training, and
> implementation services around the freesmartphone.org middleware
> platform, also known as FSO[1].
>
> "We now have a single point of contact for both commercial and
> non-commercial parties who want to use our services to create compelling
> solutions. This is of interest for groups or individuals creating new
> devices or freeing existing devices ("anti-vendor-ports") and who
> decided to incorporate the FSO middleware", says Dr. Michael Lauer,
> founder of the FSO project. "If you care about the further development
> of this platform or if you need guidance for tailoring or customizing
> the FSO middleware, contact us via E-Mail at
> coret...@freesmartphone.org".
>
> With todays' smartphones evolving into ubiquituous companions, a gap has
> emerged between widely used FOSS components like the Linux kernel and
> core system libraries on one side, and end-user applications on the
> other side. The lack of a complete free mobile software stack hinders
> innovation and leads to reinventing proprietary solutions for services
> middleware.
>
> FSO's mission is to close this gap by designing and developing solid
> middleware for mobile systems in an open fashion; this refers to not
> only publishing source code under open source licenses, but also to
> sharing the whole design and development process with the community and
> giving both commercial and non-commercial entities a way to co-drive and
> steer the process.
>
> Built on top of the Linux kernel, FSO implements high level services for
> mobile application development, accessible via the DBus interprocess
> communication standard. Leveraging the FSO APIs allows the developer to
> concentrate on solving application domain problems, such as business
> logic and presentation of data, without having to worry about the device
> specifics and low level details, such as how to access resources,
> telephony, location awareness, data storage, etc.
>
> About freesmartphone.org:
> Previously funded by Openmoko Inc, freesmartphone.org is a collaboration
> platform for open source and open discussion software projects working
> on interoperability and shared technology for Linux-based smartphones.
> freesmartphone.org operates on the services layer (middleware) and
> offers APIs and reference implementations that support modern
> interconnected mobile devices. To provide reference solutions,
> freesmartphone.org works closely together with various device-specific
> communities such as the Openmoko, OpenEZX, and HTC-Linux groups. The FSO
> team honours and bases on specifications and software created by the
> freedesktop.org community.
>
> [1] http://www.freesmartphone.org
>
>
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Re: FSO core team founds BGB company
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 05:51:20PM +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > decided to incorporate the FSO middleware", says Dr. Michael Lauer, LOL each time I read this part I always read "Dr. Mickey Lauer" ;) Rui -- ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FSO core team founds BGB company
I guess congratulations are in order. :) Best of luck, guys! Rui On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 05:51:20PM +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > Braunschweig, Germany, 2009-07-29. For immediate release. > > The freesmartphone.org core-team founds a BGB company to facilitate > the further development of free and open source middleware for > Linux-based mobile systems: "Lauer, Lübbe, Schmidt, Willmann, > freesmartphone.org GbR". ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: FSO core team founds BGB company
Mickey, Stefan, Daniel and Jan,
congratulations!
I wish you all the best, both from a free software and business perspective
it's so important to avoid the mobile Android monoculture :-)
Way to go FSO, we will do what we can to support you guys.
Wolfgang
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 05:51:20PM +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> Braunschweig, Germany, 2009-07-29. For immediate release.
>
> The freesmartphone.org core-team founds a BGB company to facilitate
> the further development of free and open source middleware for
> Linux-based mobile systems: "Lauer, Lübbe, Schmidt, Willmann,
> freesmartphone.org GbR".
>
> The core-team members of the freesmartphone.org project today announced
> the founding of a legal entity offering consulting, training, and
> implementation services around the freesmartphone.org middleware
> platform, also known as FSO[1].
>
> "We now have a single point of contact for both commercial and
> non-commercial parties who want to use our services to create compelling
> solutions. This is of interest for groups or individuals creating new
> devices or freeing existing devices ("anti-vendor-ports") and who
> decided to incorporate the FSO middleware", says Dr. Michael Lauer,
> founder of the FSO project. "If you care about the further development
> of this platform or if you need guidance for tailoring or customizing
> the FSO middleware, contact us via E-Mail at
> coret...@freesmartphone.org".
>
> With todays' smartphones evolving into ubiquituous companions, a gap has
> emerged between widely used FOSS components like the Linux kernel and
> core system libraries on one side, and end-user applications on the
> other side. The lack of a complete free mobile software stack hinders
> innovation and leads to reinventing proprietary solutions for services
> middleware.
>
> FSO's mission is to close this gap by designing and developing solid
> middleware for mobile systems in an open fashion; this refers to not
> only publishing source code under open source licenses, but also to
> sharing the whole design and development process with the community and
> giving both commercial and non-commercial entities a way to co-drive and
> steer the process.
>
> Built on top of the Linux kernel, FSO implements high level services for
> mobile application development, accessible via the DBus interprocess
> communication standard. Leveraging the FSO APIs allows the developer to
> concentrate on solving application domain problems, such as business
> logic and presentation of data, without having to worry about the device
> specifics and low level details, such as how to access resources,
> telephony, location awareness, data storage, etc.
>
> About freesmartphone.org:
> Previously funded by Openmoko Inc, freesmartphone.org is a collaboration
> platform for open source and open discussion software projects working
> on interoperability and shared technology for Linux-based smartphones.
> freesmartphone.org operates on the services layer (middleware) and
> offers APIs and reference implementations that support modern
> interconnected mobile devices. To provide reference solutions,
> freesmartphone.org works closely together with various device-specific
> communities such as the Openmoko, OpenEZX, and HTC-Linux groups. The FSO
> team honours and bases on specifications and software created by the
> freedesktop.org community.
>
> [1] http://www.freesmartphone.org
>
>
>
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Re: FSO core team founds BGB company
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Michael 'Mickey'
Lauer wrote:
> Braunschweig, Germany, 2009-07-29. For immediate release.
>
> The freesmartphone.org core-team founds a BGB company to facilitate
> the further development of free and open source middleware for
> Linux-based mobile systems: "Lauer, Lübbe, Schmidt, Willmann,
> freesmartphone.org GbR".
>
> The core-team members of the freesmartphone.org project today announced
> the founding of a legal entity offering consulting, training, and
> implementation services around the freesmartphone.org middleware
> platform, also known as FSO[1].
>
> "We now have a single point of contact for both commercial and
> non-commercial parties who want to use our services to create compelling
> solutions. This is of interest for groups or individuals creating new
> devices or freeing existing devices ("anti-vendor-ports") and who
> decided to incorporate the FSO middleware", says Dr. Michael Lauer,
> founder of the FSO project. "If you care about the further development
> of this platform or if you need guidance for tailoring or customizing
> the FSO middleware, contact us via E-Mail at
> coret...@freesmartphone.org".
>
> With todays' smartphones evolving into ubiquituous companions, a gap has
> emerged between widely used FOSS components like the Linux kernel and
> core system libraries on one side, and end-user applications on the
> other side. The lack of a complete free mobile software stack hinders
> innovation and leads to reinventing proprietary solutions for services
> middleware.
>
> FSO's mission is to close this gap by designing and developing solid
> middleware for mobile systems in an open fashion; this refers to not
> only publishing source code under open source licenses, but also to
> sharing the whole design and development process with the community and
> giving both commercial and non-commercial entities a way to co-drive and
> steer the process.
>
> Built on top of the Linux kernel, FSO implements high level services for
> mobile application development, accessible via the DBus interprocess
> communication standard. Leveraging the FSO APIs allows the developer to
> concentrate on solving application domain problems, such as business
> logic and presentation of data, without having to worry about the device
> specifics and low level details, such as how to access resources,
> telephony, location awareness, data storage, etc.
>
> About freesmartphone.org:
> Previously funded by Openmoko Inc, freesmartphone.org is a collaboration
> platform for open source and open discussion software projects working
> on interoperability and shared technology for Linux-based smartphones.
> freesmartphone.org operates on the services layer (middleware) and
> offers APIs and reference implementations that support modern
> interconnected mobile devices. To provide reference solutions,
> freesmartphone.org works closely together with various device-specific
> communities such as the Openmoko, OpenEZX, and HTC-Linux groups. The FSO
> team honours and bases on specifications and software created by the
> freedesktop.org community.
>
> [1] http://www.freesmartphone.org
>
>
This is great ! And I hope it will provide more visibility to FSO.
more visibility => more contribs => more testing => more stable =>
best FOSS GSM middleware :)
Since I love OS like om2009/Paroli, and even SHR (all EFL based
development actually) , I would love to see FSO to be rock solid to
help people to concentrate on Apps and tweaks :)
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FSO core team founds BGB company
Braunschweig, Germany, 2009-07-29. For immediate release.
The freesmartphone.org core-team founds a BGB company to facilitate
the further development of free and open source middleware for
Linux-based mobile systems: "Lauer, Lübbe, Schmidt, Willmann,
freesmartphone.org GbR".
The core-team members of the freesmartphone.org project today announced
the founding of a legal entity offering consulting, training, and
implementation services around the freesmartphone.org middleware
platform, also known as FSO[1].
"We now have a single point of contact for both commercial and
non-commercial parties who want to use our services to create compelling
solutions. This is of interest for groups or individuals creating new
devices or freeing existing devices ("anti-vendor-ports") and who
decided to incorporate the FSO middleware", says Dr. Michael Lauer,
founder of the FSO project. "If you care about the further development
of this platform or if you need guidance for tailoring or customizing
the FSO middleware, contact us via E-Mail at
coret...@freesmartphone.org".
With todays' smartphones evolving into ubiquituous companions, a gap has
emerged between widely used FOSS components like the Linux kernel and
core system libraries on one side, and end-user applications on the
other side. The lack of a complete free mobile software stack hinders
innovation and leads to reinventing proprietary solutions for services
middleware.
FSO's mission is to close this gap by designing and developing solid
middleware for mobile systems in an open fashion; this refers to not
only publishing source code under open source licenses, but also to
sharing the whole design and development process with the community and
giving both commercial and non-commercial entities a way to co-drive and
steer the process.
Built on top of the Linux kernel, FSO implements high level services for
mobile application development, accessible via the DBus interprocess
communication standard. Leveraging the FSO APIs allows the developer to
concentrate on solving application domain problems, such as business
logic and presentation of data, without having to worry about the device
specifics and low level details, such as how to access resources,
telephony, location awareness, data storage, etc.
About freesmartphone.org:
Previously funded by Openmoko Inc, freesmartphone.org is a collaboration
platform for open source and open discussion software projects working
on interoperability and shared technology for Linux-based smartphones.
freesmartphone.org operates on the services layer (middleware) and
offers APIs and reference implementations that support modern
interconnected mobile devices. To provide reference solutions,
freesmartphone.org works closely together with various device-specific
communities such as the Openmoko, OpenEZX, and HTC-Linux groups. The FSO
team honours and bases on specifications and software created by the
freedesktop.org community.
[1] http://www.freesmartphone.org
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