Hi Nikolaus, On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 09:28:20 +0100 "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <h...@goldelico.com> wrote:
> Hi rhn, > > > Am 04.02.2018 um 23:40 schrieb rhn <opcomali....@porcupinefactory.org>: > > > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, 4 Feb 2018 17:01:55 +0100 > > "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <h...@goldelico.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> FOSDEM is over and I am leaving for the airport in 10 minutes :( > >> > >> FOSDEM was an as interesting experience as every time. > >> Many people to meet, many talks, (too) many topics in > >> parallel... You have to decide how to spend time and know > >> in advance that you miss 90% of important things. > >> > >> Unfortunately I didn't notice any talk, booth, presentation, > >> material to mention OpenMoko. Except some people who did remember > >> when we came into talking. But as said I haven't been everywhere :) > >> So if anyone did see something, please share. > > > > OpenMoko was mentioned near the end of FOSDEM at a Birds of Feather phone > > development event that was organized ad-hoc on Saturday: > > > > https://bobsummerwill.com/2018/02/03/helping-purism-not-to-make-the-same-mistakes/ > > > > interesting! I think nobody of our tinkerphones, gta04, Pyra, Replicant > developers did know about it. > > > > > It was focused on Purism as the most recent contender to the title of a > > free software phone, but the conversation was really about other platforms, > > as you might guess from the post. > > > > There were people present involved with Purism, Jolla, Postmarket OS, > > Maemo, Mer, but also Fairphone and Plasma Mobile (sorry about those I > > forgot). Personally, I regret not meeting any people from Pyra, OpenMoko, > > ZeroPhone or Replicant, but I hope that at FOSDEM was an anomaly and that > > the community is not splitting in half :) > > To me it looks as if the community is already split in half, because the > projects you list were "missing" on the list by Bob Summerwill. Well, if > there had been a dedicated devroom it might have been very different because > we would have known about a meeting opportunity long before. > > Another observation is that Bob's initiative seems to focus on mobile > software while we are more on the interfaces and down to hardware. > > BR and thanks for sharing! Next year... :) > > Nikolaus Some of these projects were indeed missing, but OpenMoko is listed as the third one ;) (Replicant is also there). You read the message correctly, the discussion mostly ignored the hardware aspect. However, not all hope is lost, since Purism and Fairphone both have a strong focus on the hardware, so that could be a meeting point. Perhaps it's worth trying to organize a similar event at the next FOSS event, but this time plan it in advance and bring the *whole* community together? Cheers, rhn _______________________________________________ Community mailing list Community@tinkerphones.org http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community http://www.tinkerphones.org
