On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:38:13 +0200 "Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" <h...@goldelico.com> wrote:
> Wow, > this is a really impressive list with new ideas > I have not yet heard of! > > And the most interesting thing is that I think > almost all can be done and don't have major > technical hurdles to overcome. The main > challenge is to make them user friendly > and bug free. > > It appears that we more have a lack of active > developers doing it. And are missing some > coordination to get a complete solution. > > Maybe we should again think about a more > formal organization of the Openmoko.org > (software) project? > > Some Foundation or Association? What benefit would a Foundation or Association bring? I think they bring value in co-ordination when you have lots of people who are finding it difficult to work together. But I don't think that is the problem that we have. As you said: "lack of active developers". What can we do to encourage those developers that we do have, and to entice some on-lookers who aren't developers yet but might be in the future? Maybe instead of asking "what would you like to see" (which certainly does have a place) we should be asking something more down to earth, immediate, and practical. - what are you working on? - what have you recently achieved? - what one thing would you like help with? For myself: I'm mostly working on aligning the kernel we use with the upstream kernel. I recently submitted a collection of patches upstream and am hoping some will stick. I've recently discovered that my approach to power-management for wifi and bluetooth is less than perfect. Among other things it doesn't actually set the voltage properly, so we are running on 2.8V rather than 3.1V. I think I know how to fix it though. I recently tried 3.4-rc4 on my GTA04 and it was less than a brilliant success. No sound cards appear and the X server keeps crashing. I would love it if someone else had a look .... You can find the code in the 'gta04/mainline' branch of g...@github.com:neilbrown/linux.git NeilBrown
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