Openmoko Group sale

2008-05-31 Thread Dan Aloni
Hey there, Anyone interested in joining an Israeli Openmoko Freerunner group sale? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GroupSales Join the revolution :) -- Dan Aloni XIV, an IBM (R) company danaloni (at) il.ibm.com

Re: Openmoko Group sale

2008-05-31 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/31 Dan Aloni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey there, Anyone interested in joining an Israeli Openmoko Freerunner group sale? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GroupSales Join the revolution :) If the device has full Hebrew support, then I am very

Re: Openmoko Group sale

2008-05-31 Thread Lior Kaplan
The device runs Linux, and thus should have Hebrew support. Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/5/31 Dan Aloni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey there, Anyone interested in joining an Israeli Openmoko Freerunner group sale? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GroupSales Join the

Re: Openmoko Group sale

2008-05-31 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/31 Lior Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The device runs Linux, and thus should have Hebrew support. Language support is in the UI, not in the Linux kernel. However, I see that there is a Hebrew translation team, so I will try to contact them tomorrow and ask how far along the project is. I can

Re: Openmoko Group sale

2008-05-31 Thread sara fink
Have you checked the prices to pay IRS? From experience, my brother bought a smart phone and he had to pay meches. Also it needed approval of misrad hatikshoret. IRS asked quite a lot for it. On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Lior Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The device runs Linux, and thus

[OT] Fragmentation in the community

2008-05-31 Thread Lior Kaplan
Hi, I've written about why does it seems most of the members of this list don't read planet.linux.org.il. I'd be happy to get answers about this, as I'm trying to make the community more closely related.

Re: Openmoko Group sale

2008-05-31 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/31 sara fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Have you checked the prices to pay IRS? From experience, my brother bought a smart phone and he had to pay meches. Also it needed approval of misrad hatikshoret. IRS asked quite a lot for it. At the price of US$369, then add 17% and convert to shekelim:

Re: Openmoko Group sale

2008-05-31 Thread Dan Aloni
Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/5/31 Lior Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The device runs Linux, and thus should have Hebrew support. Language support is in the UI, not in the Linux kernel. However, I see that there is a Hebrew translation team, so I will try to contact them tomorrow and ask how

Re: [OT] Fragmentation in the community

2008-05-31 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Lior, You raised a good question. I answered to you in your blog (btw - why does it requires to wait for approval?) Hetz On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Lior Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've written about why does it seems most of the members of this list don't read

Re: Openmoko Group sale

2008-05-31 Thread Marc Volovic
Should is entry #4086 on page 139 of the Book Of Famous Last Words. M On May 31, 2008, at 5:36 PM, Lior Kaplan wrote: The device runs Linux, and thus should have Hebrew support. Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/5/31 Dan Aloni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey there, Anyone interested in joining an Israeli

Openmoko Group sale

2008-05-31 Thread Dan Aloni
Hey there, Anyone interested in joining an Israeli OpenMoko Freerunner group sale? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GroupSales Join the revolution :) -- Dan Aloni XIV, an IBM (R) company danaloni (at) il.ibm.com

Re: Openmoko Group sale

2008-05-31 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/31 Dan Aloni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The Openmoko software can run on an emulator, so we can potentially test and/or fix its Hebrew support even before we get the devices. Excellent, lets get started. I don't think that it's a good idea to get super-organized as I want this to remain a

Re: Openmoko Group sale

2008-05-31 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Dotan Cohen wrote: If the device has full Hebrew support, then I am very interested. The device will NOT have full Hebrew support. The os ships with three toolkits - QT, GTK and ETK. The first two have full Hebrew support (i18n), but the core services the device has (i.e. - displaying

Re: Openmoko Group sale

2008-05-31 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Dan Aloni wrote: Hey there, Anyone interested in joining an Israeli Openmoko Freerunner group sale? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/GroupSales Join the revolution :) Sorry, I'm going to be doing some serious raining on the parade here. First rain email:

Re: Openmoko Group sale

2008-05-31 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/5/31 sara fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Have you checked the prices to pay IRS? From experience, my brother bought a smart phone and he had to pay meches. Also it needed approval of misrad hatikshoret. IRS asked quite a lot for it. At the price of US$369, then add

Re: [OT] Fragmentation in the community

2008-05-31 Thread Omer Zak
Another possibility: The planet used to be in http://foss-il.ev-en.org/ but was moved to http://planet.linux.org.il/ yet there is no link from the original URL to the up-to-date URL. In fact, this is how I ceased (until today) to follow the planet. On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 18:20 +0300, Lior Kaplan

Re: Openmoko Group sale

2008-05-31 Thread Dotan Cohen
Hi Shachar, I may get around to adding Hebrew support, if and when I get my hands on a device. Might I mention a preference for Qt? I plan on learning Qt for some KDE development, and if I can run it on the phone too that would be great. why 17%? where does that number come from? I

Re: Openmoko Group sale

2008-05-31 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Dotan Cohen wrote: Hi Shachar, I may get around to adding Hebrew support, if and when I get my hands on a device. Might I mention a preference for Qt? I plan on learning Qt for some KDE development, and if I can run it on the phone too that would be great. You can write your own

Re: Openmoko Group sale

2008-05-31 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 10:49:33PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Can a group of people do a personal import of more than four units? Who would I contact about that? This most certainly is not a business. No, a group of people is not a person. What you can do is to have the company sell them to a

Re: Openmoko Group sale

2008-05-31 Thread sara fink
Best option is to ask someone to bring it in his luggage. Also, try to ask misrad Hatikshoret if it's approved. They don't allow every model. I know my brother had to get approval from them, and only after that he released it from customs. Paid customs as well. And he only bought 1 smart phone.

Re: Openmoko Group sale

2008-05-31 Thread Doron [Ofek BIZ]
He all, ( just landed from pairs, so it will be short ) 1. I started the process with MOC (ministry of communication) and MOD (ministry of deface ) (they also should approve the device) 2. according to the Israeli law and regulations - there is no possibility to import pack of 10 devices -

Re: Store selling Linux computer with support

2008-05-31 Thread Arik Baratz
On Tue, Dec 4, 2007 at 10:04 AM, Maxim Veksler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://d-source.co.il are resellers of http://affordy.com which delivery hardware + software for the home marked based on Ubuntu. 1. They will support you in your first steps of connecting to the Internet by working with