Dear Minh Please give me about a week to reply to these questions. I'm going to be traveling a lot starting tonight so things will be very hectic for a while.
I appreciate all your work to collect / organize such great topics. -Sean Minh Ha Duong wrote: > Dear Sean, > > I received a great number of responses, most containing 3-10 questions. So > I > cheated a bit, and in this selection of 10 points most are actually multiple > questions. > > Q1. The end of the year is a time to look back on the year achievements. > So where does Openmoko stands now from a business point of view ? > Could you comment on sustainability, on sales numbers, on geographic markets > and customer categories ? > > Q2. The god of January has two faces, one looking back and one looking > forward, so... > Juergen, Eric in Japan and practically everybody else > want to know when will the GTA03 phone be released, > if it will have 3G/3.5G, a camera and the kitchen sink. > Can you tell us anything yet ? Where do you want Openmoko to be in December > 2009 ? > > Q3. The mandatory dogfood question was submitted by Yorik Moko: > "Do you use the FreeRunner as your daily phone, which distro > and what is your favorite application ?" > > Q4. Todd would like to know exactly what are your feelings about Android > and its impact on the OpenMoko OS. > > Q5. Kosa and Marco wondered if you could say us something about the > management > that doesn't seem > to be loved by great hackers like Harald and Carsten. For example, what is > your analysis of > the controversies that led Om2008 to ship with Qtopia's predictive keyboard. > > Q6. There are many Openmoko communities in languages other than English now. > Swap38 asks how can they best contribute back to the project, > and if there are plans to organize the diversity around a common model, > as OpenOffice.org did for example. What is the status of the > internationalization > and localization effort ? > > Q7. Let's be reflexive, kind of "we have to talk about our relationship, > dear". > Tilman, supported by Michelle, wonders to which extend the community has met > your expectations. > More precisely, could you name an area where it did not, perhaps > like an application that you would have expected be written already ? > > Q8. On the other hand, Tim and others would like to know > the most interesting or fun thing you have seen the Freerunner used for ? > > Q9. And where do you think could any person do the most for the project right > now? Think of if that person would be ideal and have all the skills needed. > And then, which skills are in most need right now and in the future? > > Q10. To conclude, can we have a video of you in Openmoko T-shirt and geek-cap, > having a phone chat with star hackers, using Neo FreeRunners at both ends, > telling each other your favourite Freerunner joke ? Please ? > > Thanks everybody for taking the time to ask these questions, > and thanks if advance for your replies, > Minh > -- > Attached: All the questions received. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- -Sean _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community