Dear colleges distributors, Due Risto and Aapo initiative about programing contest, and the post of Risto about "Pay for your Open Source software!" in his blog makes me realize than people like me with not enough time/skills to drive a moderate/high complex software project to success, can collaborate in more than just test or spread this software.Cofundos.org will help to boost any idea you have in mind and give a opportunity to earn some money to people that have this time/skills you not have, but It's even greater than this , and this is the main reason I wrote this message, we can JOIN efforts easily .
We are about 25 distributors around the world with different sizes and points of view but surely we have a lot of coincidences on what software we want to be able to offer to our costumers in the Neo, and surely we receive from costumers the same kind of inputs about what they want. Surelly most of you, like me, doesn't have enough resources to hire a developer or to move enough community critical mass to fulfill some of this needs alone... I don't know what you feel about this but for me is a very frustrating situation. But now the great news, we don't have to stay alone in that situation :), initiative like cofundos can help us to share does needs and if enough resources are joined and I'm not just talking about money, each of us reach developers dificult or imposible to reach by the others for example, some of those needs can be successfully achieved. To preach with examples I have started one of those projects myself Voip on Neo Freerunner, but I'm not talking about fix Linphone to work or port ekiga, I'm talking about VoIP be supported in the core of the distributions, using FSO and integrate it on Paroli to be as easy to use like an standard gsm call, and the hole system can react to their events through dbus... pretty, isn't it? ;) . Who will not pay a couple of euros to have in his store a free phone able to do that... doing that :) Here is the link to the project http://cofundos.org/project.php?id=153 This is only an example, I ear about VoIP very often, and I know there will be users even companies interested if they can switch from GSM to wifi VoIP whatever an acces point is accesible for example. Well sure you get the point :) now let me address to my ... Dear Developers. Don't be shy :) if you have the knowledge/time to provide a solution that fulfill requirements just tell us to know if we can afford it or not, the proposed example http://cofundos.org/project.php?id=153 is not a one day job i think will be quite amount of work, so I invite development companies or groups to make offers too, taking in count the solution has to be Free software and able to go upstream. Also I invite all developers with a project in mind or even already started but pending to finish/improve by lack of founds, may be you find people interested in invest part of that money Dear colleges users , There are only about 25 distributors but we are are about thousands users, our support to those initiative we like is vital for them and now we can have the opportunity to request features with more than complains :) even an euro to demonstrate interest about a project or feature requested will help to make it real quicker than waiting for it and you will have the satisfaction to being part of the solution instead of only an spectator. Well... enough words for one post... I will be glad to receive your comments Regards -- David Reyes Samblas Martinez http://www.tuxbrain.com Open ultraportable & embedded solutions Openmoko, Openpandora, GP2X the Wiz, Letux 400, Arduino Hey, watch out!!! There's a linux in your pocket!!! _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community