thanks for the update Minh! hadn't heard about Gwaterpas it's been added to opkg now btw
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Minh Ha Duong <hadu...@centre-cired.fr> wrote: > Hi! > > This is the nineth Community Updates, January 12th issue. > > For the new year we interviewed Sean on everything that matters for the > community: sales in 2008 were around the low five digits, om-locations is > what remains of an ambitious mesh network project, and the most surprising > development to him was the explosion of distributions. Back on the mailing > lists, activity was rater slow during the first week of the year, but got > more intense than ever after the holidays. Illume's keyboard received lots of > localisations. Opkg.org reached a critical mass of packages. SHR and FSO are > counting down toward their next milestone, while coding continues for kernel, > drivers, Android and the like. It looks like the switch to 2.6.28 is going to > happen soonish, before the switch to the Paroli phone stack. > > The newsletter is also available with links at > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/January_12th%2C_2009 > > Contents > * 1 Distributions > * 2 New applications > * 3 Ports and updates > * 4 Community > * 5 Hardware and drivers > * 6 Tips and tricks > > 1. Distributions > > * SHR: According to Julien's latest on the SHR project blog, the baby is > expected really soon now. > * Marek announced the new organisation of package and images repositories. > * Android: The latest compatible kernel has wifi and bluetooth working > now. Suspend and reboot are still broken. > * FSO MS5 should branch out for really soon now (the roadmap says release > January 31st, but they want a longer stabilization period this time). It will > be the first milestone that will have support not only for GTA01 and 02, but > also for the Motorola EZX A780. meeting minutes. > * Hackable:1 buildbot is up and running. Images are generated every > morning around 4:00. Happy testing ! > * User:Bytestore has updated assemblage 2008.12 from Russian community, > work with gprs, headphone jack plug, ru keyboard and many other things were > updated (download rootfs, see screenshots) > > 2. New applications > > * LED clock When an Openmoko is sitting unused at night, turn it into an > alarm clock with large 7-segment digits on a black background in landscape > mode. > * GPRSsettings is a GUI script designed to change apn, login, dialnumber. > * Samuel's script for a toggle wifi icon. > * ylock 0.1 Python screen lock and low battery monits. > * AppManager 1.0.1 Zenity package manager. > * Mirko announced that pre-alpha Paroli was now packaged in testing. > Development moved to their own domain: paroli-project hosts trac, git, blog > and documentation. > * Kurt's Gwaterpas allows to use the Freerunner as a leveling tool. > * There are now 75 packages at opkg.org. Novelties include osmupdater > (updates OSM maps directory), sortdesk (sorts the desk), MokoCard (flashcards > learning aid), sms-sentry (query the unit's location by SMS, handy if it was > just stolen), pyring (a key ring), EFpLayer (mplayer GUI), playstankontakarta > (an icon displaying remaining credit with POLISH PLAY pre-paid phone > provider), various illume keyboards and more. It was mentioned unofficially > that Openmoko's community repository is going to be dismantled. > > 3. Ports and updates > > * Lots of Navit activity. Distributions are kindly suggested to package > the sample map separately from the main binary to conserve space. > * The opkg package manager development moved from OM svn to Google code. > The recommended stable version is r172, there is a significant data > structures+algorithm refactorization going on. > * Version 2.4 of orrery is now available. It has a new schematic Solar > System View page, showing the position of the planets and our moon in their > orbits, a new moon calendar, and a less ugly icon. > * The ZOMG! package manager is now available on opkg.org, and now allows > to add/remove/edit repositories (i.e. feeds). > * Angus updated BtGPS.py to work with FSO. With this script, the > FreeRunner works as a bluetooth GPS. > * Marco shared his success in compiling the latest E17 svn on 2008.12. > There was trouble on SHR with the Elementary widget set, tough. > > 4. Community > > * Sean's new year interview > * Rakshat Hooja's company IDA Systems will be at Mumbai's TechFest. There > are gifts waiting for the first 10 FreeRunner owners to show up at their > booth! > * The Future of location services thread started as an attempt to clarify > the GPS drivers tangle, and then turned to using GSM celltowers and wifi > access points location information. Dima signalled that there are several > free databases of GSM tower locations, and that his gta02 Perl script to > query OpenCellID for the approximate tower location, and then initialize the > AGPS with this data works great. There is a database of Wifi access points at > wigle.net. > * Two new mailing lists were announced. One to discuss testing of all > Openmoko Products. The other to discuss projects.openmoko.org administration. > While we are at it, here are the number of subscriptions as of 07/01/2009 > according to Werner: hardware 670, kernel 692, support 1016, devel 1262, > community 2323, announce 11258. > * The Department CSIE of National Chung Cheng University launched dozens > of projects this week. > > 5. Hardware and drivers > > * Werner announced he made an debug board that fits inside the case. > Schematics contributed as a community member, not as an Openmoko employee. > * Filter AUX key bouncing patches. > * There is a thread about the touchscreen driver on the devel list, how it > should be split between kernelspace and userspace, and how to contribute it > upstream to the Linux kernel. I find the mix of high-level technical > arguments with social and emotional considerations fascinating. > * It is a pleasure to say that the Community localized the Illume keyboard > to at least nine different languages. This does not only involves layout and > icon, but also building up a dictionary (the keyboard emits key symbols when > in "terminal" mode, but uses predictive dictionary lookups when in "strings" > mode.) The frontier: asian languages input. > * The Freeunner is also a target platform for many innovative new input > methods. > * Carl proposed a simple in-car mount: stick a piece of velcro on the > dashboard, strap the FreeRunner onto it through the hole, flipping the > display with xrandr -o 2. Add a standard USB car charger, you are all set. > * GSM firmware updater and hardware buzzfix program: not released yet, > still working on it. > * Video driver code was ported from kdrive to xorg architecture, Graeme is > now in debugging mode. Andreas, Chris and Tom are also working on it. > * Miguel's video showcases that the Arduino, a popular open-source > electronic prototyping platform, complements well the FreeRunner when it > comes to reading sensors and controlling actuators. > * Qi supports the zImage kernel format. > > 6. Tips and tricks > > * Booting 2008.12 from a microsd fails with "Only GTA01 hardware supported > by ASoc driver" ? Option "ro" on the kernel commandline is fatal for startup > of 2008.12. Check your U-Boot env if you're using that for "ro", or try > adding rw to /boot/append-GTA02 if you are on SD Card and Qi. > * tangogps 0.9.2 and 0.9.3 have an issue converting between coordinate > formats in the western or southern hemispheres. If you use the DD.dd format > it should display the correct value. > * Current FSO should support both the 2.6.24 and 2.6.28 kernels. The patch > to use old FSO with new kernel is here. > * Howto get the wrench and QWERTY buttons in 2008.12 with the ASU theme. > * Chris Samuel offers a noise reduction+echo suppression patch and binary > for QtE 4.4.2. > > Yours, > Minh > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community