Congrats! This was overdue and the new name is absolutely to the point and has quite some appeal. The definition of what is / is not a tinkerphone is very helpful and should go to the frontpage at http://www.tinkerphones.org
I like it very much. What about icons etc, generally the complete "corporate identity"? Has it been discussed what will change (beyond the obviously pending overhaul of http://www.tinkerphones.org artwork/design), and are there already tasks assigned to experts? Maybe even new logos etc established and available? Many thanks, Nikolaus - and whoever else been involved! :-) cheers jOERG On Fri 01 July 2016 08:29:39 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > Hi, > after several years of running the OpenPhoenux community, we > thought that it is time to refresh it a little and replace the awkward > name "OpenPhoenux" (it was always difficult to spell and pronounce) > with something new, self-explaining, that your mom understands. > > "OpenPhoneux" was originally coined in ca. 2009 as the name of an > initiative, when it became clear that the Openmoko company would stop > to develop a successor of the Openmoko Freerunner. It finally brought > the GTA04 device to life. > > Back then, this was a motivating allusion to the situation of building > something new on the remains of Openmoko, but nowadays probably > only some core members of our community are able to understand > this background. > > Therefore we discussed in a small circle what the core of Openmoko > and Openphoenux is. > > It was easy to find what it is not: > * it is not a 100% fair phone (we don't have the resources to track > components - it is enough challenge to have it working and being produced) > * it is not a 100% open phone (we have not found a feasible solution for > WLAN and GPU) > * it is not a 100% secure phone (we can't do security audits of every > component) > * it is not a cutting edge phone (we do not get the latest and greatest > chips as mainstream manufacturers do) > * it is not a geeks (only) phone (we want everybody to be able to use > it) > > But then we found what the common denominator of all Openmoko > activities was and is: > > It is a device that allows you to tinker with it, i.e. find out how it > works, to replace software and even hardware components for smaller or > bigger improvements and even repairs. It is designed in a way to enable > such changes instead of stopping you (e.g. by protected boot loaders, > undocumented code etc.). > > All this is facilitated by being open (as far as NDAs and other limitations > allow) and using open source technology (e.g. GNU/Linux, Debian). > > Here is a definition of what "tinkering" is [1]: > > "tinker or tinker around to make small changes to something in order to > improve or repair it" "tinker with: He spends hours tinkering around with > car engines." > > So we are now happy to tell the world that we are members of > "the Tinkerphone community" :) > > There is a new web domain representing this change: > > <http://www.tinkerphones.org> > > I hope you will agree with us and stay here, contribute and share > your ideas and achievements. And invite new tinkerers to participate. > > Happy tinkering, > Nikolaus > > PS: it will need your help to update the documentation pages... > > [1]: <http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/tinker_1> > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- () ascii ribbon campaign /\ against html e-mail - against proprietary attachments http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml http://www.nonhtmlmail.org/campaign.html http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil_still.shtml http://www.gerstbach.at/2004/ascii/ (German) _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community