Re: questions for steve regarding group purchases

2008-05-08 Thread Robin Paulson
2008/5/8 Mo Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe I am just naïve, but in a community like this I doubt that there will be anybody with malicious intent, I would be semi-willing to purchase phones before receiving money for them, and would also trust another purchaser with my money before

Re: Re: OM IDE (was: Re: Common Lisp for OM (Was: Programming OM))

2008-05-08 Thread Lally Singh
Just to clarify, NB would run on a desktop computer, and cross compile for OM. I'm imagining a situation not unlike CW for Palm (I had to dev on that a few years ago). It compiles the code and uploads it to the emulator, which you can run the debugger on. Then you upload it to your OM device,

Re: How many framebuffers does openmoko has?

2008-05-08 Thread Vishwas P S
Can the display/video card recognize two planes (a BG and an FG) .. If yes, it would be very easy to overlay one (FG )onto the other and the app/driver generating the video(FG) data need not worry abt graphics FB and delegate the job of combining to the hardware ? Is this a possibility on the

Re: questions for steve regarding group purchases

2008-05-08 Thread Michele Renda
My Idea was this: Openmoko can manage all the orders and to receive the payments: they can build a sites, that collect the orders, and with an option to indicate to which Sales Group to receive (Update in real time with the number of allocated phones). The person that is available to

Re: questions for steve regarding group purchases

2008-05-08 Thread Lally Singh
So what you really want is for the OM store to give a 10% discount. On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:52 AM, Michele Renda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Idea was this: Openmoko can manage all the orders and to receive the payments: they can build a sites, that collect the orders, and with an option to

Errr... 3d status?

2008-05-08 Thread Pietro m0nt0 Montorfano
Well, i don't want to make any flame/spam/anything-like-that, just a question to clarify how is the situation. Well, on the neo freerunner there will be the 3d capable chip which has its spec under NDA so it's impossible for anyone not in the OM company to implement the 3d driver and API

Re: questions for steve regarding group purchases

2008-05-08 Thread David Pottage
On Thu, May 8, 2008 7:17 am, Robin Paulson wrote: it's not just the trust thing; it's for when things go wrong. there are many possible slip-ups between california and my house, and i would prefer knowing that if the unpredictable happens, we're all covered, and know where we stand. and

Re: Errr... 3d status?

2008-05-08 Thread Tom Cooksey
On Thursday 08 May 2008 10:23:30 Pietro m0nt0 Montorfano wrote: Well, i don't want to make any flame/spam/anything-like-that, just a question to clarify how is the situation. Well, on the neo freerunner there will be the 3d capable chip which has its spec under NDA so it's impossible for

Re: How many framebuffers does openmoko has?

2008-05-08 Thread The Rasterman
On Thu, 8 May 2008 13:16:37 +0530 Vishwas P S [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: Can the display/video card recognize two planes (a BG and an FG) .. If yes, it would be very easy to overlay one (FG )onto the other and the app/driver generating the video(FG) data need not worry abt graphics FB and

Re: Errr... 3d status?

2008-05-08 Thread The Rasterman
On Thu, 08 May 2008 10:23:30 +0200 Pietro \m0nt0\ Montorfano [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: Well, i don't want to make any flame/spam/anything-like-that, just a question to clarify how is the situation. Well, on the neo freerunner there will be the 3d capable chip which has its spec under NDA so

Re: How many framebuffers does openmoko has?

2008-05-08 Thread Vishwas P S
OK. In that case how do we prevent tearing of images on the screen ? i.e. how do we implement a tearing-less display solution ? Normally as far as I know, /dev/fb's memory would be mapped to apps and there is no way for the driver to sync memory updates with Vsync ... Pl correct me if I'm wrong -

openmoko fans web site

2008-05-08 Thread luther
all, we are prepare create the openmoko fans site, if anyone interest it ,or any ideal please tell me! the doman name is www.openmokofans.com Luther ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: How many framebuffers does openmoko has?

2008-05-08 Thread David Samblas Martinez
--- Carsten Haitzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: no. This is a clear answer X-D __ Enviado desde Correo Yahoo! La bandeja de entrada más inteligente. ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: How many framebuffers does openmoko has?

2008-05-08 Thread The Rasterman
On Thu, 8 May 2008 14:20:28 +0530 Vishwas P S [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: OK. In that case how do we prevent tearing of images on the screen ? i.e. how do we implement a tearing-less display solution ? Normally as far as I know, /dev/fb's memory would be mapped to apps and there is no way for

Re: How many framebuffers does openmoko has?

2008-05-08 Thread Bin Chen
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:05 PM, David Samblas Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Carsten Haitzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: no. This is a clear answer X-D What does X-D mean? ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: questions for steve regarding group purchases

2008-05-08 Thread Michele Renda
For openmok there is no difference, except than to pay x9 more payment fee. I think if someone steal some money to some person, the damage of OM image will cost a lot more ! Lally Singh wrote: So what you really want is for the OM store to give a 10% discount. On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:52

Freerunner...when??

2008-05-08 Thread Giorgio M.
vinci! In palio ogni giorno buoni sconto da 50€ per soggiorni in tutto il mondo ed estrazione finale di una Citroen C1 Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=7802d=20080508 ___ Openmoko community mailing list community

Re: Freerunner...when??

2008-05-08 Thread Lally Singh
buoni sconto da 50€ per soggiorni in tutto il mondo ed estrazione finale di una Citroen C1 Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=7802d=20080508 ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http

Re: How many framebuffers does openmoko has?

2008-05-08 Thread David Samblas Martinez
Answered out the list --- Bin Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:05 PM, David Samblas Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Carsten Haitzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: no. This is a clear answer X-D What does X-D mean?

update - India sale of Freerunner

2008-05-08 Thread rakshat hooja
A big thank you for all those who pre-booked the Freerunner at the highly discounted price of INR 15399/-. All the discounted slots are now full and the Freerunner can now only be booked form our website at the actual retail price of INR 20,000/- inclusive of shipping and all taxes. (In case there

Re: update - India sale of Freerunner

2008-05-08 Thread Kunal Singh
Hi Rakshat, It is sad to know that discounted slots are full. I just starting looking in to openMoko recently, and never knew about discount. Gook luck to me in future. Do you have any idea about as to when we can start booking free-runner on the website (has the booking already

Re: openmoko fans web site

2008-05-08 Thread Kosa
not working... Kosa - Un mundo mejor es posible - luther escribió: all, we are prepare create the openmoko fans site, if anyone interest it ,or any ideal please tell me! the doman name is www.openmokofans.com Luther ___ Openmoko community

Re: openmoko fans web site

2008-05-08 Thread Mo Abrahams
not working for me either... slashdotted? On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 08:53 -0500, Kosa wrote: not working... Kosa - Un mundo mejor es posible - luther escribió: all, we are prepare create the openmoko fans site, if anyone interest it ,or any ideal please tell me! the doman name is

Re: update - India sale of Freerunner

2008-05-08 Thread Giorgio M.
So you think that in 2-3 weeks freerunner will be ready for us? I can't wait anymore...:) thanks Il giorno gio, 08/05/2008 alle 18.20 +0530, Kunal Singh ha scritto: Hi Rakshat, It is sad to know that discounted slots are full. I just starting looking in to openMoko recently, and

Re: questions for steve regarding group purchases

2008-05-08 Thread Joachim Steiger
hi michele Michele Renda wrote: For openmok there is no difference, except than to pay x9 more payment fee. i beg to differ. the whole handling would make the gain of readily packaging 10-packs and ship these en bloc to one dest. vanish. so larry is right. thats like requesting 10% generic

Re: openmoko fans web site

2008-05-08 Thread Ryan Prior
My guess is that it's not up yet; he's yet to create it, and asking for our input as to what it should have. On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Mo Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not working for me either... slashdotted? On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 08:53 -0500, Kosa wrote: not working... Kosa

Re: questions for steve regarding group purchases

2008-05-08 Thread Flemming Richter Mikkelsen
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Joachim Steiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi michele Michele Renda wrote: For openmok there is no difference, except than to pay x9 more payment fee. i beg to differ. the whole handling would make the gain of readily packaging 10-packs and ship these en bloc

Re: questions for steve regarding group purchases

2008-05-08 Thread Gilbert Hartmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Flemming Richter Mikkelsen wrote: | On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Joachim Steiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | hi michele | | Michele Renda wrote: | For openmok there is no difference, except than to pay x9 more payment fee. | i beg to differ. the

RE: questions for steve regarding group purchases

2008-05-08 Thread Crane, Matthew
Yea, there's all kinds of ways that people use every day to transact with others who they've no way of meeting or even calling on the phone. If you are concerned, then maybe the price to fix the concern is to just order the phone individually. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: openmoko fans web site

2008-05-08 Thread Lally Singh
A site like that would be great if it followed something like sourceforge.net, plus some discussion forums. Maybe we already have this sort of stuff, and (yet again), I'm clueless? On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Ryan Prior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My guess is that it's not up yet; he's yet to

Re: openmoko fans web site

2008-05-08 Thread Kim Alvefur
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 14:53 -0400, Lally Singh wrote: A site like that would be great if it followed something like sourceforge.net, plus some discussion forums. Like this: http://projects.openmoko.org/ ? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Los Angeles / Southern California group sales

2008-05-08 Thread ian douglas
Assuming that Steve's last timelines are semi-accurate, unless more interest is generated by the end of the month, the Los Angeles group only has 4 interested parties -- would the other Southern California groups be willing to combine if none of us can reach enough orders for the 10-pack

Re: openmoko fans web site

2008-05-08 Thread Lally Singh
Excellent!! Now all we need are discussion forums. On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Kim Alvefur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 14:53 -0400, Lally Singh wrote: A site like that would be great if it followed something like sourceforge.net, plus some discussion forums.

Re: questions for steve regarding group purchases

2008-05-08 Thread Flemming Richter Mikkelsen
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Gilbert Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Michele Renda wrote: | For openmok there is no difference, except than to pay x9 more payment fee. | i beg to differ. the whole handling would make the gain of readily | packaging 10-packs and ship these en bloc to

Re: questions for steve regarding group purchases

2008-05-08 Thread Michele Renda
Flemming Richter Mikkelsen wrote: Please do not ask for this. It would give OM so much extra work. The reason for the 10-pack deal is that since it saves OM time and money, we get a discount. If you want OM to handle individual payments for group orders, they would have much work with arranging

Re: OM IDE (was: Re: Common Lisp for OM (Was: Programming OM))

2008-05-08 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Lally Singh ha scritto: Just to clarify, NB would run on a desktop computer, and cross compile for OM. I'm imagining a situation not unlike CW for Palm (I had to dev on that a few years ago). It compiles the code and uploads it to the emulator, which you can run the debugger on. Then you

Re: questions for steve regarding group purchases

2008-05-08 Thread Flemming Richter Mikkelsen
There is no need to use this tone. I already apologize about my idea. It was only an idea. I was not knowing that it was so difficult and so expensive for Openmoko. Also I want a GTA04, and also I want that OM employers are focused only in their work. Sorry It was only an idea to improve

Re: questions for steve regarding group purchases

2008-05-08 Thread Michele Renda
Flemming Richter Mikkelsen wrote: Don't worry! No problem :) I don't know what is happening, but I see in Internet also I a lot of person speaking with no-understandable comparations with other phone, watching more what is missing on this phone, and not what there is already. And in the end

Re: Los Angeles / Southern California group sales

2008-05-08 Thread Kosa
Is there any chance I can join your group and ask you or the one who gets the babies to ship one to me to the Mexico City? I have some friends who want to get one, but they want to see it before buying it, and I think there won't be a mexican group this time. Thanks Kosa - Un mundo mejor es

Re: Los Angeles / Southern California group sales

2008-05-08 Thread ian douglas
I've never shipped anything to Mexico, but I know from experience that shipping to Canada can cost extra money with customs, etc., so if that's the same with Mexico, you might be better off buying a single unit? Anyone else know? Kosa wrote: Is there any chance I can join your group and ask

Re: questions for steve regarding group purchases

2008-05-08 Thread David Samblas Martinez
And according me Openmoko is doing in hardware what Linux made in software! And it is great. Same feeling here!!! - Enviado desde Correo Yahoo! La bandeja de entrada más inteligente. ___ Openmoko community

Re: Los Angeles / Southern California group sales

2008-05-08 Thread Kosa
Well yes, I will have to pay 15% of the value of the Freerunner, but they don't need to know that the real value of the Freerunner is 400 dollars. You could send it as a very low cost device and I won't pay that much for taxes. I've done that before. Besides, I really want the pouch an the

Re: Los Angeles / Southern California group sales

2008-05-08 Thread ian douglas
For something worth that much money, I don't see the point in declaring its value as less than the purchase price plus shipping -- if you declare it as a $100 phone and it gets broken or lost/stolen, you'd only be able to file an insurance claim for the $100 declared value and lose the extra

Re: questions for steve regarding group purchases

2008-05-08 Thread Flemming Richter Mikkelsen
| And according me Openmoko is doing in hardware what Linux made in | software! And it is great. Same feeling here!!! OM is doing some very important things. The thing which is most important to me, is if they can make all HW producers write their drivers in GPL and provide all the

RE: Stylus Recommendation

2008-05-08 Thread steve
haha. this will make you laugh. Like this in miniature mounted vertically on the back panel. backwoods geek! http://www.rodmounts.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Shiloh Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 3:03 PM To: List for

RE: When will you update the Production Status, steve?

2008-05-08 Thread steve
Very Nice, Long ago worked on a 90 million dollar flight sim with 20 men in the loop and lots of AI. If you ever played falcon 4.0 then you played against my aircraft AI. But 10K players is insane. Sounds very cool. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: Warranty on phase 1 phones

2008-05-08 Thread steve
Yes your phone has an identifying number. So every phone will be covered, regardless of how you buy it. We will cover DOA for 14 days on single phones and 28 days on phones shipped in 10 packs. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric

RE: OpenMoko GTA02 status

2008-05-08 Thread steve
production will start in the next week or so _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bogdan Bivolaru Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 3:43 AM To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: OpenMoko GTA02 status Hello, What's the status with OpenMoko GTA02? Is it in

RE: When will you update the Production Status, steve?

2008-05-08 Thread steve
You're welcome matt. When the product hits the floor in Fremont California I will drive to the wharehouse. I will review the incoming QA. And then I will announce to you guys, open the shop and take orders. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: questions for steve regarding group purchases

2008-05-08 Thread nickd
I think the only caveat to this for the Freerunner is the lack of datasheet from SMedia for the GPU which makes 3D impossible. Rather unfortunate. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_GTA02_Hardware#Graphics.2F3D_Acceleration

Re: When will you update the Production Status, steve?

2008-05-08 Thread Michael Shiloh
And then we will buy each other a tall cold beer, and brace for the flood steve wrote: You're welcome matt. When the product hits the floor in Fremont California I will drive to the wharehouse. I will review the incoming QA. And then I will announce to you guys, open the shop and take

Top 100 content of Wiki

2008-05-08 Thread BrendaWang
Dear All: Attached file is the top 100 content of wiki. Period:Since 1,april to 07,May. Brenda Analytics_wiki[1].openmoko.org_20080401-20080507_(TopContentReport).pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ Openmoko community mailing list

RE: Is anyone else getting 2 or 3 copies of every mails?

2008-05-08 Thread steve
ya. me too -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ian douglas Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 2:56 PM To: List for OpenMoko community discussion Subject: Is anyone else getting 2 or 3 copies of every mails? Hey all, I'm randomly getting a second

Re: Top 100 content of Wiki

2008-05-08 Thread nickd
Thanks Brenda that's very interesting. Would it be possible to get some more stats just out of interest? Possibly ones for country of origin (Map Overlay), traffic sources etc? Or am I asking too much... -Nick BrendaWang wrote: Dear All: Attached file is the top 100 content of wiki.

RE: questions for steve regarding group purchases

2008-05-08 Thread steve
Hey, Some joker just called me at home ( he must of got my number from a press release) and burned up 30 of my cell minutes asking me the same question. Mass Pro is slated to start between may9 and may 16. Steve's rule say add a week. Then you got test, then you shipping. On Monday ( or maybe

RE: questions for steve regarding group purchases

2008-05-08 Thread steve
Bingo! When Sean and I discussed this idea we didn't want to force any kind of arrangement on groups. People are free to join and establish their own terms between each other. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Crane, Matthew Sent:

RE: questions for steve regarding group purchases

2008-05-08 Thread steve
Well put Roh. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joachim Steiger Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:18 AM To: Michele Renda Cc: List for Openmoko community discussion Subject: Re: questions for steve regarding group purchases hi michele Michele

RE: questions for steve regarding group purchases

2008-05-08 Thread steve
The 10 pack will have to be ordered by one person. It will ship to that persons location. Now, how will people arrange to do this? I thought long and hard about this. And then I realized that some people will find one way, one guy pays and others promise to pay him. Some people will find another

Browser report of Wiki

2008-05-08 Thread BrendaWang
Dear All: Attached file is the Browser report of WIKI. Period : 1, April~7,May Brenda Analytics_wiki[1].openmoko.org_20080407-20080507_(BrowsersReport).pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ Openmoko community mailing list

RE: Stylus Recommendation

2008-05-08 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
steve writes: haha. this will make you laugh. Not if you're a fisherman... though I've got rod holders I like a lot better. Like this in miniature mounted vertically on the back panel. backwoods geek! http://www.rodmounts.com/ ___ Openmoko

Re: questions for steve regarding group purchases

2008-05-08 Thread Paul Jimenez
steve wrote: Mass Pro is slated to start between may9 and may 16. Steve's rule say add a week. Then you got test, then you shipping. On Monday ( or maybe Sunday night for my EU friends ) I will do an update. Could you also include status of debug boards? Will they go on sale at the same

Re: Los Angeles / Southern California group sales

2008-05-08 Thread geek
I think there were ten total between all Ca. (last I looked) We (my work) ships to Mexico City (SantaFe Shopping Center - Parking) Customs is very SLOW right now...it could easily be 4 weeks from shipping to delivered, no matter how you ship it. We have a guy who crosses border at TJ and then