Thanks Sean for this announcement! It's appreciated to get a status update from OM of things we've heard rumors of. I'm very happy that OM got this far with the phones: we have some tens of thousands (better guess anyone?) of Linux phones around the world, various open/free distros to run on the HW and means to communicate to make it better. I think OM was decent on the hardware side, it's a great achievement to have manufactured a open/free Linux-phone. Thank you for that, thank you everyone who worked on OM for this!
In the future, it'll be interesting to see where gta02-core takes us, if there will be some other open hardware around to run the apps and distros we've created for neo1973 and Freerunner. I hope that the rest of the A7 freerunners will find to good hands, to good an enthusiastic developers to boost the community to get the most out of our hardware. On the software side, there has been some glitches and the community has been lacking the direction. At the moment I myself trust on OM2009 (who knows if there will be a SHR2009 with SHR and OM2009 together) and Paroli (Started by Openmoko and still being worked on by people from Openmoko, now also a community is involved that's growing all the time..). But I see that it's difficult for Openmoko to generate more income by writing software so concentrating on hardware seems like a smart choice, as long as there's a community to make the hardware useful with the software they create. Now as the community will go 'wild', I'd now, more than ever, like to see good leadership practices to organize and guide the community. If you ask me where OM failed, it's this: managing and leading the community. So I think we'd need some direction where to make people go, who don't know where to go. We have around 20 distros and phone apps - I wouldn't like to see this all break in small sub-projects that all do the same work and don't communicate, but one single big project that'd actually take us somewhere. I'd like to see some kind of democratic structure created to guide us somewhere where most of us want to go. http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/01/building-community-around-your-foss.html Thank you Openmoko, I wish you all the best with project B. Hope you generate enough money to roll out new open phones :) r -- | risto h. kurppa | risto at kurppa dot fi | http://risto.kurppa.fi _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community