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| − | = News log =
| + | Add news to this page, and from time to time we will issue a community update. |
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| − | Add the news in this page, and from time to time we will issue a community update.
| + | Watch these links: |
| | + | * Git logs: [http://git.openmoko.org/?p=kernel.git;a=shortlog;h=andy-tracking kernel/andy-tracking], [http://git.openmoko.org/?p=qtopia.git;a=log;h=master Qtopia/master], [http://git.openmoko.org/?p=openmoko.git;a=summary Openmoko's OpenEmbedded], [http://git.openmoko.org/?p=u-boot.git;a=log;h=stable uboot/stable], [http://git.openmoko.org/?p=qi.git;a=log Qi/master] |
| | + | * Mailing lists: [http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-f528196 hardware], [http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-f528196 devel], [http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-f1954 community], [http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-f681789 kernel], [http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-f528183 support], [http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-f832940 SHR devel], [http://lists.projects.openmoko.org/pipermail/fdom-development/ FDOM devel], [http://lists.hackable1.org/pipermail/hackable1-dev/ Hackable:1 devel], [http://www.mail-archive.com/smartphones-standards@linuxtogo.org/index.html#00123 FSO] |
| | + | * News: [[Special:Newpages]], [http://projects.openmoko.org/ Project news], [http://www.opkg.org/rss/latest_entries.php opkg new packages]. |
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| − | = Distributions =
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| − | * Qi, the next bootloader, recently got resume support. [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/033109.html Testing] shows it is much faster than uboot.
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| − | * Openmoko's engineering team met for a 3 weeks workshop in Taipei, they decided to focus back on the basics, that is leave the Installer, Locations, Diversity and Settings applications alone for a while.
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| − | * [http://shr.bearstech.com/ Daily SHR image builds] are online, no release yet but available for testing.
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| − | * New FDOM promised this week ?.
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| − | * Rasterman's [http://download.enlightenment.org/misc/Illume/Freerunner/2008-10-12/ October 11th images] ([http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/browser/trunk/TMP/oe source]). This is not a full distribution, rather a display of illume's current state.
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| − | = Applications =
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| − | * [http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~taw27/openmoko/openmoocow/ OpenMooCow] 0.1 released: is a cowbox more fun than a barrel of monkeys ?
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| − | * http://AccelSense.org follows up on GSoC Gestures project
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| − | * [[Rotate]] worked on a lot.
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| − | * I read that [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/033103.html powertop] actually runs on the FreeRunner. For your information, this is an utility that allows to measure and therefore optimize power usage.
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| − | * [[FBReader]] an e-book reader programme now available for Debian and 2008.8
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| − | = Hardware =
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| − | * Guitar pick stylus [[Pouch]]
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| − | = Hot bugs and most discussed issues =
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| − | * Wifi
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| − | * Digital Audio Playing
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| − | * Kernels currently has the APM power management interface is still compiled. This has been deprecated for years and must go away, preferably sooner than later. Hopefully ''apm -s'' should still work for suspend, or do we need something else ?
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| − | * 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 HaralDd and the Swisscom research project !
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| − | * There is a workaround to the [http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1024 GSM keeps reregistering bug], a.k.a. [http://moko.mwester.net/brc.html bouncing Calypso issue]: prevent the model from entering deep sleep.
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| − | * Unstable development of OM is moving back to OE.
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| − | * [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/002540.html Test reports]
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| − | * Fix [https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/2038 Qtopia USSD] requests, so one can dial "*123" or "#4".
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| − | = Wiki =
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| − | = Community =
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| − | * http://www.opkg.org is an application database (think Freshmeat, Tucows...).
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| − | * The [http://planet.openmoko.org planet] got long, detailed informative posts, such as the [http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/discussion-13-openmoko-community-feelings/ wrap-up of the "Lost community" thread]. When someone makes a request on the mailing list, it is a mark of good netizenship to summarize the answers on one's blog like this (or on the wiki).
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| − | * There were discussions on 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.
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| − | = More =
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| − | = Outside Openmoko =
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| − | * Linux [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/033087.html 2.6.27] released.
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| − | * Pulseaudio released [http://pulseaudio.org/milestone/0.9.13 version 0.9.13] with experimental support for Bluetooth devices.
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| − | = Archives =
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| − | = See also =
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| | How are newsletters organized elsewhere: | | How are newsletters organized elsewhere: |
| | http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/032628.html | | http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/032628.html |
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| | [[/Archive 1]] | | [[/Archive 1]] |
