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Bonjour tout le monde,

Bienvenue à la lettre de la Communauté Openmoko, édition du 4 au 19 Octobre. Les 2 grandes nouvelles sont le lancement de l'annuaire d'applications [http://opkg.org opkg.org], et l'équipe d'ingénieurs Openmoko qui se concentrent sur la base pour [[Improving user experience|améliorer l'expérience utilisateur]].

= Images =

Les choses sont plutôt calmes du coté des distributions. L'image du [http://download.enlightenment.org/misc/Illume/Freerunner/2008-10-12/ 11 Octobre] ([http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/browser/trunk/TMP/oe source]) de Rastermann est en ligne. Ce n'est pas vraiment une distribution mais plutôt une démonstration que Illume est beau et fonctionne bien pour que les autres distributions l'utilisent. Nous avons aussi vu [http://shr.bearstech.com/ l'image SHR daily builds] en ligne pour tests. Et [[Qi]], le prochain bootloader a évolué. [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/033109.html Les Tests] ont montré qu'il est beaucoup plus rapide que uboot mais pas encore de sortie prévue pour le moment.

= Applications =

Tout le monde a applaudi quand Tobias a annoncé http://opkg.org, un annuaire en ligne d'applications (comme Freshmeat, Tucows, ...). La base de données est alimentée par la communauté, tout le monde peut enregistrer et indexer les applications. Dans le lot des utilitaires, j'ai remarqué :
* la première version de [http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~taw27/openmoko/openmoocow/ OpenMooCow], un joli, drôle et inutile simulateur de bruits bovins
* Optimisations de [[Rotate]]. C'est un exemple intéressant de compétition et de coopération (développement communautaire si vous préférez), car beaucoup de versions sont développées en parallèle et des idées apparaissent au fil du temps.
* Le projet Gesture GSoC (Google Summer of Code)

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= Images =
And [[Qi]], the next bootloader, recently got resume support.

= Applications =

Everybody applauded when Tobias announced  http://opkg.org  , an online directory of applications (think Freshmeat, Tucows...). The database is community-driven, everybody can register and index applications. In the flow of community developped utilities, I noticed:
* the initial release of [http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~taw27/openmoko/openmoocow/ OpenMooCow], a nice, funny and useless bovine noise simulator.
* Optimizations on [[Rotate]]. This is an interesting example of competition and cooperation (community development, if you prefer), because there are many versions being developed in parallel, with ideas jumping across all the time.
* The Gestures GSoC project developper managed to convince his academic instructors to let him code on the FreeRunner for his degree. Future developments coming at http://AccelSense.org
* [[Auxlaunch]] is a very simple, finger-friendly application launcher and window switcher for the Freerunner. It appears when the "AUX" button is pressed.

With respect to porting other applications to our favorite platform, I read that Intel's made [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/033103.html powertop] actually runs on the FreeRunner. This is an very handy utility that allows to measure and therefore optimize power usage. Also:
* [[FBReader]] an e-book reader programme now available for Debian and 2008.8
* Sander ported [[Sander|Pingus]] the free lemmings clone, for OE based distributions (it was already available on Debian).
* In addition to [[minimo]], openmoko-browser2, and [[midori]], we saw a bunch of light and fast web browsers announced on the mailing list: [http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/2008/ipk/glibc/armv4t/base/ Fennec]), [http://www.dillo.org/ Dillo] ([http://misc.andi.de1.cc/dillo/dillo_2.0-r0_armv4t.ipk ipk]), [http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ NetSurf] and links2. That makes about seven, working more or less well. Choice, choice, choice...
* The same is happening for music players: pythm, openmoko-mediaplayer2, qtopia media player, deforaOS-player, qmmp, sonata, quasar. Thomas's K. also started a mediaplayer. So far I think that your best friend is mplayer from the command line interface (and on 2008.8, I think that mplayer is directly connected to OSS, so installing OSS compatibility packages probably help. And removing pulseaudio also saves tons of CPU cycles)

= Good fixes and discussed issues =

Many good news:
* There is a fix for ticket [https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/2038 2038] about Qtopia USSD requests, so that dialing "*123" or "#4" should work soon.
* There is a fix for ticket [http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1024 1024], the GSM keeps reregistering bug, a.k.a. [http://moko.mwester.net/brc.html bouncing Calypso issue]. The workaround is to prevent the modem from entering deep sleep, and it has been commited to the QTopia images already.
* Powersaving patches landed in stable-2.6.26 on October 8th. Note to application developpers: the best way to [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/openmoko-kernel/2008-October/005542.html blank the screen] to conserve power is the fbdev-ioctl method. I think that ''xset s 5'' should do it. Thanks to the Harald and the Swisscom research project !
* OM announced two hires: Ray Chao, to work full-time in Taipei on the infrastructure, and Christopher Hall, a very experienced software engineer.
* Infrastructure-wise, unstable development of OM is moving back to OE.

Too many bugs remain, see [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/002688.html Test reports] for example. Most of the grief heard these days was about Digital Audio Playing and Wifi. I would like to make an unrequested announcement for the sake of the good vertical communication: Kernels currently has the APM power management interface is still compiled in. This has been deprecated for years and is doomed to go away. Hopefully ''apm -s'' will still work for suspend, but userspace applications that still use the deprecated apm interface SHOULD take action, preferably sooner than later.

= Community =
* Openmoko's engineers reunited for a 3 weeks workshop in Taipei. They decided to focus back on the basics, that is to leave the Installer, Locations, Diversity and Settings applications alone for a while. This decision was very positively  received by everybody. John Lee is assembling the engineering task force at OpenMoko for that. He started by initiating a thread to hear about [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/033611.html what the community expects most urgently]. As a result, his priorities are posted in the [[Improving user experience]] wiki page.
* Compared to last month, the [http://planet.openmoko.org planet] has really taken off. Several prolific authors are now regularly posting long, detailed analysis.
* Risto wrote a [http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/discussion-13-openmoko-community-feelings/ wrap-up of the "Lost  community" thread]. Gratuitous praise to him: when someone makes a request on the mailing list, it is indeed a mark of good netizenship to summarize the answers on one's blog/wiki like he did. These discussions led to more discussions about what would be the job description of a community manager and decisions on lowering barriers to participation (i.e. access to write priviledges in code repositories) happened.
* I did not see much innovations about cool hardware mods (feel free to add to this wiki page !), but an interesting stylus alternative was documented. It uses a [[Pouch| guitar pick]] attached to the pouch lanyard.
* More user groups meetings everywhere in the world.

= Outside Openmoko =

* Linux [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/033087.html  2.6.27] released.
* Pulseaudio released [http://pulseaudio.org/milestone/0.9.13 version 0.9.13] with experimental support for Bluetooth devices.

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