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Welcome to the 14th community update, covering March 6th ~ May, 2009.
  
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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, hosted by Aapo Rantalainen and Risto H. Kurppa, was announced and the winner will now get a prize provided by the community, currently at 314€ and a leather case for Freerunner (39€)!  A week later, a second contest was announced by Rakshat Hooja, where the current  bounty stands at 125€. Discussions continued on the subjects of cool chess games, browsers on the Neo, and of course, keyboards (we love our keyboards), and much more.
  
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====='''Period Apr ~ May 2009'''=====
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The GTA03 project canceled "cuts staff, turns focus on ... Plan B". [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/06/openmoko/ Article with details]. The focus will be on improving the FreeRunner GTA02.
  
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  What happens next?
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  "There were two paths:
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  A: Fulfill our promises on FreeRunner and launch GTA03
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  B: Fulfill our promises on FreeRunner and launch project B.
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  We will talk more about project B in the coming months, but these salient facts guided our decisions:
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  1. GTA03 was in constant flux as a design.
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  2. GTA03 schedule was consequently always slipping.
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  3. The resources required for GTA03 are 3X those required for Project B.
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  4. OM doesn’t have 3X resources" -[http://tamsblackberry.tamoggemon.com/2009/04/09/freerunner-not-completely-dead-yet/ FreeRunner: not completely dead, yet].
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This may strongly imply that we should expect the fully-functional [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om2009 Om2009] for the GTA02 in June/July.
  
 
====='''Period 6, Mar ~ 20, Mar, 2009'''=====
 
====='''Period 6, Mar ~ 20, Mar, 2009'''=====
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==Distributions ==
 
==Distributions ==
  
* '''[http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/devel/2009-March/004976.html Om2009 release]''' - Openmoko continues it's work on the release plan. Members from Paroli, Distribution and FSO met in Chemnitz, Germany to further discuss their commitments to the release.
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* '''Om2009''' - Openmoko continues its work on the [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/devel/2009-March/004976.html release plan]. Members from Paroli, Distribution and FSO met in Chemnitz, Germany to further discuss their commitments to a future release.
  
 
* '''QT Extended''' [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qt_Extended_4.4.3 moving along as a community project] The community created a fork of it and called it Qt Extended Improved:
 
* '''QT Extended''' [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qt_Extended_4.4.3 moving along as a community project] The community created a fork of it and called it Qt Extended Improved:
 
**  [http://trac.karadog.net/qt-extended-improved bug tracking system]
 
**  [http://trac.karadog.net/qt-extended-improved bug tracking system]
**  [http://dashi-x02.karadog.net/~lihouyu/qtextended/4.4.3/ prebuild rootfs images]
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**  [http://dashi-x02.karadog.net/~lihouyu/qtextended/4.4.3/ pre build rootfs images]
 
**  [http://git.karadog.net/qt-extended-improved.git git repository]
 
**  [http://git.karadog.net/qt-extended-improved.git git repository]
  
* '''Android''' - Beta 4 announced, cupcake image - can someone add to this
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* '''Android'''
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** Koolu has [http://android.koolu.org/pipermail/android-freerunner-koolu.org/2009-March/000610.html silently] been improving Android and prepared a release candidate for [http://www.koolu.org/releases/beta4 koolu-beta4].
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*** It features a better installing system (untar the file on an empty sd card partition and let your free runner start from sd card and wait).
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*** Integrating Qi
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*** Runs fully from NAND, no need for Sd Card anymore
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*** Integrating Sean RILD, so it behaves as normal phone
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*** Integrating many fixes (also community patches)
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** Koolu has also made a preview [http://www.koolu.com/~marcelo/ koolu-beta1-cupcake] image. It has the [http://source.android.com/roadmap/cupcake cupcake features] but isn't fully working momentarily, because Koolu is integrating a new code drop from Koolu and the patches from Michael.
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** Freelancer [http://panicking.kicks-ass.org/blog/index.php Michael Trimarchi] has also built [http://panicking.kicks-ass.org/download/ Android images], even Cupcake ones. His builds currently have the most features (suspend + sms + calls + GPRS + onscreen keyboard), like seen in [http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=popRpaZG1txEXGHDDboxtIA functional tests]. This features are being merged into koolu-beta1-cupcake for release soon.
  
* [[Fyp | fyp]] 3.18 released
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* '''Fyp 3.18''' [[Rfp | released]]
  
 
==Applications ==
 
==Applications ==
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** XBoard is an open source graphical chess user interface for numerous chess engines
 
** XBoard is an open source graphical chess user interface for numerous chess engines
  
* [http://www.opkg.org/package_166.html knjMokoCalendar]
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* [http://www.opkg.org/package_166.html knj Moko Calendar]
 
** Google Calendar for the Openmoko (unstable)
 
** Google Calendar for the Openmoko (unstable)
  
* [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/KnjMokoOPKG knjmokoopkg]
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* [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/KnjMokoOPKG knjmokoop kg]
** A package-browser which both creates a SQLite3-database with all packages from the OPKG-cache (enabling fast searches through packages < 1 sec) and is able to install and remove packages. You can also perform updates and upgrades through it.
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** A package-browser which both creates a SQLite3-database with all packages from the OPKG-cache (enabling fast searches through packages < 1 sec) and is able to install and remove packages. You can also perform updates and upgrades through it.
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* [http://gvsigmobileonopenmoko.wordpress.com gvSIG Mobile 0.11]
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** Mobile GIS application.
  
 
===Application Updates===
 
===Application Updates===
  
* '''Mokometeo 0.2''' the small python/GTK application fetching the weather forecast from Yahoo weather pages,has been released with some improvements and bug fixes. Changes that went in are:  
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* '''Mokometeo 0.2''' the small python/GTK application fetching the weather forecast from Yahoo weather pages, has been released with some improvements and bug fixes. Changes that went in are:  
 
** added some "print" in the code  
 
** added some "print" in the code  
 
** debug the .mokometeo folder ; put the config folder in /home/root/.mokometeo/ instead of /.mokometeo/  
 
** debug the .mokometeo folder ; put the config folder in /home/root/.mokometeo/ instead of /.mokometeo/  
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** http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Mokometeo  
 
** http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Mokometeo  
  
* '''Fennec Beta 1''' Released it's twelfth development milestone and the first beta release of the mobile version of Firefox, for testing purposes only. More details about this on:
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* '''Fennec Beta 1''' Released its twelfth development milestone and the first beta release of the mobile version of Firefox, for testing purposes only. No version for Freerunner yet. More details about this on:
 
** http://blog.pavlov.net/2009/03/17/fennec-1-beta-1/
 
** http://blog.pavlov.net/2009/03/17/fennec-1-beta-1/
 
** http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fennec/1.0b1/releasenotes/
 
** http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fennec/1.0b1/releasenotes/
 
** https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Build/Fennec
 
** https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Build/Fennec
  
* '''Orrery 2.5''' Released a new version of the orrery sky-chart program has been released.   In addition to several bug fixes, the new version includes support for displaying informal constellations (asterisms like the Big Dipper), a new to-scale display of the Solar System, information about the number of satellites used for the position fix in GPS mode and better support for displaying stars too faint for the unaided eye to see.   
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* '''Orrery 2.5''' A new version of the orrery sky-chart program has been released. In addition to several bug fixes, the new version includes support for displaying informal constellations (asterisms like the Big Dipper), a new to-scale display of the Solar System, information about the number of satellites used for the position fix in GPS mode and better support for displaying stars too faint for the unaided eye to see.   
 
** http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Orrery
 
** http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Orrery
  
* [http://www.opkg.org/package_137.html GTick] is a metronome application written for GNU/Linux and other UN*X-like operting systems supporting different meters (Even, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 and more) and speeds ranging from 10 to 1000 bpm. It utilizes GTK+ and OSS (ALSA compatible). It is part of the GNU Project.  
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* [http://www.opkg.org/package_137.html GTick] is a metronome application written for GNU/Linux and other UN*X-like operting systems supporting different meters (Even 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 and more) and speeds ranging from 10 to 1000 bpm. It utilizes GTK+ and OSS (ALSA compatible). It is part of the GNU Project.  
 
** Please test the package and leave some feedback (comment or [[GTick wikipage]])
 
** Please test the package and leave some feedback (comment or [[GTick wikipage]])
  
'''GridPad v.2.1''' Released
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* '''GridPad v.2.1''' Released
  
'''gvSIG Mobile 0.11''' Released
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* '''KnjMokoWifi''' Released  
 
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** [[http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/KnjMokoWifi More information]]
'''KnjMokoWifi''' Released  
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*[http://www.opkg.org/package_96.html ZOMG!] package fixed
[[http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/KnjMokoWifi More information]]
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* A [[Browser review|browser review/comparison]] study of the best suitable browser
 
* A [[Browser review|browser review/comparison]] study of the best suitable browser
** Everyone can add test results of the browser compatibility to any of the distributions being used so that we may find the one that has the most potential and can be developed to a actual working browser.
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** Everyone can add test results of the browser compatibility to any of the distributions being used so that we may find the one that has the most potential and can be developed to an actual working browser.
 
   
 
   
 
* If anyone is looking for a [http://repository.maemo.org/pool/maemo4.1/free/g/gnuchess/ Chess game on the Neo], you could try Maemo.  This might be a good start for the application:
 
* If anyone is looking for a [http://repository.maemo.org/pool/maemo4.1/free/g/gnuchess/ Chess game on the Neo], you could try Maemo.  This might be a good start for the application:
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** http://repository.maemo.org/pool/maemo4.1/free/g/gnuchess/
 
** http://repository.maemo.org/pool/maemo4.1/free/g/gnuchess/
  
* Mid April: [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2009-March/043971.html GSM buzz-fix party in Braunschweig, Germany] Daniel Williams has been glad to perform buzz fixes for phones that needs the fix.In order to gauge interest and plan ahead with respect to ordering Resistors/Capacitors he would like to know how many phones would come. If you are interested and would show up please mail him privately and also give information on how many phones you would bring.
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* Mid April: [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2009-March/043971.html GSM buzz-fix party in Braunschweig, Germany] Daniel Williams has been glad to perform buzz fixes for phones that needs the fix. In order to gauge interest and plan ahead with respect to ordering Resistors/Capacitors he would like to know how many phones would come. If you are interested and would show up please mail him privately and also give information on how many phones you would bring.
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* Also there is another Fix party in Barcelona organized by David Samblas from [http://www.tuxbrain.com Tuxbrain]. Visit [http://www.openmoko-spain.org/tiki-view_blog_post.php?blogId=1&postId=7 this blog post] for more information
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* [http://software.cofundos.org Software.Cofundos.org] - Following the programming contest, software.Cofundos.org will help to boost any idea one has in mind and give an opportunity to earn some money for people who have the time/skills you may not have.This is a great platform for discussing and enriching ideas on upcoming/existing projects. You can view only openmoko related projects at [http://openmoko.cofundos.org openmoko.cofundos.org]. A feed for new projects from cofundos.org has been uploaded to [http://planet.openmoko.org Openmoko Planet]. [http://www.tuxbrain.com Tuxbrain] has also started a [http://www.openmoko-spain.org/tiki-view_blog_post.php?blogId=1&postId=8 cofundos.org campaign]
  
 
* Kustomizer 0.4 released for 2008.12 [http://groups.google.com/group/kustomizer/browse_thread/thread/58b14dd6893d7242]
 
* Kustomizer 0.4 released for 2008.12 [http://groups.google.com/group/kustomizer/browse_thread/thread/58b14dd6893d7242]
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* [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2009-March/043615.html Freerunner For Application Ideas]
 
* [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2009-March/043615.html Freerunner For Application Ideas]
  
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===Competitions===
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* Announcing the [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2009-March/043240.html first programming competition] for Openmoko phones
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** [http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/announcing-the-first-programming-competition-for-openmoko-phones/ read the rules]
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* [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2009-March/044153.html New application contest] organized by Rakshat Hooja 'Call Recorder cum Dictaphone Application for the Freerunner' on cofundus.org. Any one who wishes to contribute their time/skills and also get more details can check the following link:
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** http://www.cofundos.org/project.php?id=154
  
 
===Event News===
 
===Event News===
  
 
[[Image:IEEE-LINUXeOMD.preview.jpg|250px|align|right]]
 
[[Image:IEEE-LINUXeOMD.preview.jpg|250px|align|right]]
* '''2009-03-01/03-31''' [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/user:Harry Harry' Openmoko Survey] | Please help me with my free software and Openmoko related academic research | Harry Tsai of [http://www.cgu.edu.tw Chang Gung Universtiy]
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* '''2009-03-01/03-31''' [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/user:Harry Harry' Openmoko Survey] | Please help me with my free software and Openmoko related academic research | Harry Tsai of [http://www.cgu.edu.tw Chang Gung University]
  
* '''2009-03-21/03-22''' [http://fsf.org/conference LibrePlanet conference], Cambridge, MA | [[User:JohnSullivan|John Sullivan]] and other Openmoko users will be around, if critical mass then there will be related unconference hacking on Sunday.
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* '''2009-03-21/03-22''' [http://fsf.org/conference LibrePlanet conference], Cambridge, MA | [[User:JohnSullivan|John Sullivan]] and other Openmoko users will be around, if critical mass will be reached, there will be related unconference hacking on Sunday.
 
* '''2009-03-23/27''' [http://www.bits-apogee.org/ Apogee 2009] | Rakshat Hooja of IDA Systems will be speaking about Openmoko  
 
* '''2009-03-23/27''' [http://www.bits-apogee.org/ Apogee 2009] | Rakshat Hooja of IDA Systems will be speaking about Openmoko  
  
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* '''2009-04-06/08''' CELF Embedded Linux Conference | ELC 2009 San Francisco, California.
 
* '''2009-04-06/08''' CELF Embedded Linux Conference | ELC 2009 San Francisco, California.
  
* '''2009-04-18''' [http://http://www.openmoko-spain.org/tiki-view_blog_post.php?blogId=1&postId=7 Openmoko Fix it Party] | Repairing buzz hardware bug live and for free , Barcelona.  
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* '''2009-04-18''' [http://www.openmoko-spain.org/tiki-view_blog_post.php?blogId=1&postId=7 Openmoko Fix it Party] | Repairing buzz hardware bug live and for free , Barcelona.  
 
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* '''2009-04-18/19''' [http://register.osdc.tw/ Open Source Developer's Conference] | OSDC will hold in Taipei , Taiwan.
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* '''2009-05-12/13''' [http://www.osimworld.com/newt/l/handsetsvision/osim08/osim_asia.html OSiM Asia] | The Kowloon Shangri-la hotel, Hong Kong | Openmoko will give a speech
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* '''2009-06-25/26''' [http://proj3.moeaidb.gov.tw/nmipo/content/getfile.aspx?sn=C24E0F585A9A41DDAF83A1713CED2D0F OPEN SOURCE IN MOBILE 2009] | to be held in Westin Taipei Taiwan | Openmoko Sean will give a speech
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====Competitions====
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* '''2009-04-18/19''' [http://register.osdc.tw/ Open Source Developer's Conference] | OSDC will hold in Taipei, Taiwan.
  
* Software.Cofundos.org - Following the programming contest,
 
software.Cofundos.org will help
 
to boost any idea one has in mind and give an opportunity to earn some money
 
for people who have the time/skills you may not have.This is a great platform
 
for discussing and enriching ideas on upcoming/existing projects.
 
  
* New application contest organized by Rakshat Hooja
 
'Call Recorder cum Dictaphone Application for the Freerunner'  on
 
cofundus.org.Any one who wishes to contribute their time/skills and also get
 
more details can check the following link -
 
http://www.cofundos.org/project.php?id=154
 
  
 
[[category:Community Update]]
 
[[category:Community Update]]

Latest revision as of 14:54, 9 October 2009



Welcome to the 14th community update, covering March 6th ~ May, 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, hosted by Aapo Rantalainen and Risto H. Kurppa, was announced and the winner will now get a prize provided by the community, currently at 314€ and a leather case for Freerunner (39€)! A week later, a second contest was announced by Rakshat Hooja, where the current bounty stands at 125€. Discussions continued on the subjects of cool chess games, browsers on the Neo, and of course, keyboards (we love our keyboards), and much more.

Period Apr ~ May 2009

The GTA03 project canceled "cuts staff, turns focus on ... Plan B". Article with details. The focus will be on improving the FreeRunner GTA02.

 What happens next?
 "There were two paths:
 A: Fulfill our promises on FreeRunner and launch GTA03
 B: Fulfill our promises on FreeRunner and launch project B.
 We will talk more about project B in the coming months, but these salient facts guided our decisions:
 1. GTA03 was in constant flux as a design.
 2. GTA03 schedule was consequently always slipping.
 3. The resources required for GTA03 are 3X those required for Project B.
 4. OM doesn’t have 3X resources" -FreeRunner: not completely dead, yet. 

This may strongly imply that we should expect the fully-functional Om2009 for the GTA02 in June/July.

Period 6, Mar ~ 20, Mar, 2009

Distributions

  • Om2009 - Openmoko continues its work on the release plan. Members from Paroli, Distribution and FSO met in Chemnitz, Germany to further discuss their commitments to a future release.
  • Android
    • Koolu has silently been improving Android and prepared a release candidate for koolu-beta4.
      • It features a better installing system (untar the file on an empty sd card partition and let your free runner start from sd card and wait).
      • Integrating Qi
      • Runs fully from NAND, no need for Sd Card anymore
      • Integrating Sean RILD, so it behaves as normal phone
      • Integrating many fixes (also community patches)
    • Koolu has also made a preview koolu-beta1-cupcake image. It has the cupcake features but isn't fully working momentarily, because Koolu is integrating a new code drop from Koolu and the patches from Michael.
    • Freelancer Michael Trimarchi has also built Android images, even Cupcake ones. His builds currently have the most features (suspend + sms + calls + GPRS + onscreen keyboard), like seen in functional tests. This features are being merged into koolu-beta1-cupcake for release soon.

Applications

New Applications

  • Xboard + GNUChess
    • XBoard is an open source graphical chess user interface for numerous chess engines
  • knjmokoop kg
    • A package-browser which both creates a SQLite3-database with all packages from the OPKG-cache (enabling fast searches through packages < 1 sec) and is able to install and remove packages. You can also perform updates and upgrades through it.

Application Updates

  • Mokometeo 0.2 the small python/GTK application fetching the weather forecast from Yahoo weather pages, has been released with some improvements and bug fixes. Changes that went in are:
    • added some "print" in the code
    • debug the .mokometeo folder ; put the config folder in /home/root/.mokometeo/ instead of /.mokometeo/
    • test if the connection to internet is ok. If not, display question marks
    • backup the data each time data is downloaded and displayed. This data is used on the next Mokometeo startup
    • added the date and time when the data has been downloaded
    • http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Mokometeo
  • Orrery 2.5 A new version of the orrery sky-chart program has been released. In addition to several bug fixes, the new version includes support for displaying informal constellations (asterisms like the Big Dipper), a new to-scale display of the Solar System, information about the number of satellites used for the position fix in GPS mode and better support for displaying stars too faint for the unaided eye to see.
  • GTick is a metronome application written for GNU/Linux and other UN*X-like operting systems supporting different meters (Even 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 and more) and speeds ranging from 10 to 1000 bpm. It utilizes GTK+ and OSS (ALSA compatible). It is part of the GNU Project.
    • Please test the package and leave some feedback (comment or GTick wikipage)
  • GridPad v.2.1 Released


Community

  • A browser review/comparison study of the best suitable browser
    • Everyone can add test results of the browser compatibility to any of the distributions being used so that we may find the one that has the most potential and can be developed to an actual working browser.
  • Mid April: GSM buzz-fix party in Braunschweig, Germany Daniel Williams has been glad to perform buzz fixes for phones that needs the fix. In order to gauge interest and plan ahead with respect to ordering Resistors/Capacitors he would like to know how many phones would come. If you are interested and would show up please mail him privately and also give information on how many phones you would bring.
  • Also there is another Fix party in Barcelona organized by David Samblas from Tuxbrain. Visit this blog post for more information
  • Software.Cofundos.org - Following the programming contest, software.Cofundos.org will help to boost any idea one has in mind and give an opportunity to earn some money for people who have the time/skills you may not have.This is a great platform for discussing and enriching ideas on upcoming/existing projects. You can view only openmoko related projects at openmoko.cofundos.org. A feed for new projects from cofundos.org has been uploaded to Openmoko Planet. Tuxbrain has also started a cofundos.org campaign
  • Kustomizer 0.4 released for 2008.12 [1]


Competitions

Event News

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  • 2009-03-21/03-22 LibrePlanet conference, Cambridge, MA | John Sullivan and other Openmoko users will be around, if critical mass will be reached, there will be related unconference hacking on Sunday.
  • 2009-03-23/27 Apogee 2009 | Rakshat Hooja of IDA Systems will be speaking about Openmoko
  • 2009-04-06/08 CELF Embedded Linux Conference | ELC 2009 San Francisco, California.
Personal tools





Period 6, Mar ~ 20, Mar, 2009

Distributions

  • Om2009 release - Openmoko continues it's work on the release plan. Members from Paroli, Distribution and FSO met in Chemnitz, Germany to further discuss their commitments to the release.
  • Android - Beta 4 announced, cupcake image - can someone add to this

Applications

New Applications

  • Xboard + GNUChess
    • XBoard is an open source graphical chess user interface for numerous chess engines
  • knjmokoopkg
    • A package-browser which both creates a SQLite3-database with all packages from the OPKG-cache (enabling fast searches through packages < 1 sec) and is able to install and remove packages. You can also perform updates and upgrades through it.

Application Updates

  • Mokometeo 0.2 the small python/GTK application fetching the weather forecast from Yahoo weather pages,has been released with some improvements and bug fixes. Changes that went in are:
    • added some "print" in the code
    • debug the .mokometeo folder ; put the config folder in /home/root/.mokometeo/ instead of /.mokometeo/
    • test if the connection to internet is ok. If not, display question marks
    • backup the data each time data is downloaded and displayed. This data is used on the next Mokometeo startup
    • added the date and time when the data has been downloaded
    • http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Mokometeo
  • Orrery 2.5 Released a new version of the orrery sky-chart program has been released. In addition to several bug fixes, the new version includes support for displaying informal constellations (asterisms like the Big Dipper), a new to-scale display of the Solar System, information about the number of satellites used for the position fix in GPS mode and better support for displaying stars too faint for the unaided eye to see.
  • GTick is a metronome application written for GNU/Linux and other UN*X-like operting systems supporting different meters (Even, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 and more) and speeds ranging from 10 to 1000 bpm. It utilizes GTK+ and OSS (ALSA compatible). It is part of the GNU Project.
    • Please test the package and leave some feedback (comment or GTick wikipage)

GridPad v.2.1 Released

gvSIG Mobile 0.11 Released

KnjMokoWifi Released [More information]


Community

  • A browser review/comparison study of the best suitable browser
    • Everyone can add test results of the browser compatibility to any of the distributions being used so that we may find the one that has the most potential and can be developed to a actual working browser.
  • Mid April: GSM buzz-fix party in Braunschweig, Germany Daniel Williams has been glad to perform buzz fixes for phones that needs the fix.In order to gauge interest and plan ahead with respect to ordering Resistors/Capacitors he would like to know how many phones would come. If you are interested and would show up please mail him privately and also give information on how many phones you would bring.
  • Kustomizer 0.4 released for 2008.12 [1]


Event News

align
  • 2009-03-21/03-22 LibrePlanet conference, Cambridge, MA | John Sullivan and other Openmoko users will be around, if critical mass then there will be related unconference hacking on Sunday.
  • 2009-03-23/27 Apogee 2009 | Rakshat Hooja of IDA Systems will be speaking about Openmoko
  • 2009-04-06/08 CELF Embedded Linux Conference | ELC 2009 San Francisco, California.
  • 2009-05-12/13 OSiM Asia | The Kowloon Shangri-la hotel, Hong Kong | Openmoko will give a speech

Competitions

  • Software.Cofundos.org - Following the programming contest,

software.Cofundos.org will help to boost any idea one has in mind and give an opportunity to earn some money for people who have the time/skills you may not have.This is a great platform for discussing and enriching ideas on upcoming/existing projects.

  • New application contest organized by Rakshat Hooja

'Call Recorder cum Dictaphone Application for the Freerunner' on cofundus.org.Any one who wishes to contribute their time/skills and also get more details can check the following link - http://www.cofundos.org/project.php?id=154