Hi adamou, welcome! Hope, you will have loads of fun with the device and the community ... nice, seeing more people joining the community - especially (from my point of view) - when they do Python programming ...
First of all; I really agree with Risto - there is loads of work to do in core components of the OM distributions - and Paroli is probably a good example ... However, if you rather want to start programming on application level, there are for sure some projects seeking for support - I can for instance suggest (I know, me being quite selfish here) contributing to a synchronization tool for the Openmoko called PISI (http://projects.openmoko.org/projects/pisi/). Depending on your interest, there is tasks - on GUI (PyGTK extensions or even migration (and re-design) to Elementary) - on the core (e.g. extend by new domain "tasks") - on module level (integrate with more data sources) If you are interested, feel free to contact me - ask about anything - get an account on gforge (http://projects.openmoko.org/) and request access to the project ... Best regards Michael -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:15:01 +0300 > Von: "Risto H. Kurppa" <ri...@kurppa.fi> > An: List for Openmoko community discussion <community@lists.openmoko.org> > Betreff: Re: First contact with the community > Hi there! > > Nice to hear and see new people entering the community! > > And it's great that you'll get your unit soon - it just makes more > sense to devel with the unit, not with qemu as you can use the > touchscreen, you feel the speed, accelerometers, everything. > > But it all depends on what do you want to do and in what kind of > projects to participate. > > First of all, there are many different distributions you can install > on the phone. I myself use OM2009 unstable (see > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om2009 ), some other use SHR, some use > Debian. Also Gentoo, Android, QTextended (or whatever it's called > nowadays), Hackable1, openwrt are around and some more I forgot. > > Then there are many applications written primarly for Openmoko phones, > like omgps (see http://code.google.com/p/omgps/ ). > > If you want to start contributing and you know python, I suggest you > to have a look at Paroli, the phone application of OM2009. Paroli has > now been written for maybe some 6 months and is quite usable, but > still needs some love before it'll be launched as stable. If you're > interested, have a look at > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om_2009_get_active#Paroli_phone_software > - the work on Paroli will benefit many users and it's a smooth start > for you, for example rewriting the wlan workflow (see > http://www.paroli-project.org/trac/ticket/171 ) or include a bluetooth > support. > > You're welcome to join #paroli irc-channel for more questions. > > Enjoy your freedom! > > > 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 _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community