Re: SHR Stable Party (Questions for press release/ blog post)

2010-02-28 Thread rakshat hooja
*Please fwd to SHR developer list also*


 2) This weekend I am going to make a questionnaire for the SHR core team
 asking questions about the history of SHR (how it came to be, who were the
 key people in the begining etc), who all are working on it currently and
 what all are they contributing, what technologies and toolkits SHR uses and
 supports, Why SHR should be used, What are the future plans and new targeted
 platforms, What help do they need, What contributions the community can make
 etc. I will post the questionnaire on these mailing lists and maybe the
 SHR-devloper list too. Once the answers are there maybe some of you with
 bolgs can edit and make an article for your blogs/ for sending to magazines
 for publication.



Ok so I have my list of questions for SHR people. Please feel free to add
questions and if you know  answers please answer!  (I know a most of the
answers are on the two wikis. I am just trying to consolidate and update
them so we can easily write about SHR :) I am hoping the consolidated
answers will be moved to a wiki page soon

1. What is SHR?

2. Can you tell a bit about the history of SHR? Why was the development of
SHR started? What were the aims and objectives?

3. What are the target platforms for SHR? Does SHR target only
Openmokophones or is it designed as a generic mobile communication/
PDA solution?

4. How does the development process of SHR work ( As in who/ who all decide
what is to be doe at what priority)?

5. Who are the main developers working on SHR? What are their areas of
interest wrt SHR and what are they working on these days?

6. How far has the development of SHR progressed? Is the current SHR image
usable out of the box?

7. Can you explain the structure of SHR (as in kernel, middleawre windows
manager, data storage structure, application layer etc)?

8. If a S/W developer wishes to contribute to SHR what should she/ he do?
Does she/ he need to have any specific skill sets to contribute to SHR?

9. How does a developer make sure her/ his application runs on SHR. Is there
any centralised verification process or a repository where verified
applications are stored?

10. Can you list the main areas where you would appreciate help in the
SHRdevelopment process and are looking for volunteers.

11. What is the relationship of SHR with FSO ( A bit about FSO too).
Is SHRan user interface on top of
FSO or does it offer something more?

12. Can someone highlight the Short term, medium term and long term benefits
of using SHR to Hardware hackers and hardware manufacturers?

13. What milestones does SHR hope to hit in 2010?

13. Where do I find all the code and documentation for SHR?

14. When will SHR/ Stable be available :)




Also we already have 9 SHR Stable release parties listed. Please list your
local party or your attendance to a party on the wiki page.

http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/SHR_Party_Page

If you are not registered on the wiki to edit mail me directly and I will
add your entry. Number of other announcements for the SHR parties will be
posted on these lists soon so keep a lookout for them :)

Rakshat
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Re: SHR Stable Party

2010-02-24 Thread rakshat hooja
I have near zero graphic skills but I have modified a place holder logo for
the SHR Party page

http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Image:SHR-Party-Logo.png

This is only there till someone can provide a better logo.

Rakshat



On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:56 AM, rakshat hooja raks...@gmail.com wrote:

 As we build up to the SHR Stable renaming of SHR Testing and (hopefully) a
 number of SHR Stable parties across the world, I have been thinking about
 what all we can do to create more awareness about SHR (and FSO) among
 embeded developers as well as users. Three ideas have come to me (as in
 within the last miniute so please excuse if they are not developed properly)

 1) We need to create press releases that we can emai/ mail/ fax to our
 local (or global for that matter) tech media outlets. Actually I am thinking
 of 2 sets of press releases. One for the various developer communities who
 may be interested and one for the general public focuses media. The general
 public press release needs to give an idea of what SHR is, what it is trying
 to acheive,its benifits and usefullness etc with screen shots. The community
 announcement can be more technical and also acknowledge the core developers
 (if they agree). I see these going out to the tech editor of your local
 newspaper, tech blogging sites, news agencies, maybe some companies too
 along with the big tech news websites. If we all send these out in our own
 regions we may get some coverage

 2) This weekend I am going to make a questionnaire for the SHR core team
 asking questions about the history of SHR (how it came to be, who were the
 key people in the begining etc), who all are working on it currently and
 what all are they contributing, what technologies and toolkits SHR uses and
 supports, Why SHR should be used, What are the future plans and new targeted
 platforms, What help do they need, What contributions the community can make
 etc. I will post the questionnaire on these mailing lists and maybe the
 SHR-devloper list too. Once the answers are there maybe some of you with
 bolgs can edit and make an article for your blogs/ for sending to magazines
 for publication.

 3) If someone can make a small SHR user logo, the SHR  users can put it on
 their blogs/ websites.

 Please send feedback and more ideas.

 Rakshat

 PS - Also add your names for the various SHR Stable parties

 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/SHR_Party_Page

 On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:53 PM, rakshat hooja raks...@gmail.com wrote:

 As promised I  have put together a very basic framework of the SHR Stable
 release party planning page

 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/SHR_Party_Page

 Please go through it and add your information/ improve it/ send feedback.

 Currently it is only linked from the SHR page on the OM wiki

 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/SHR#SHR.2FStable_release_party

 Please let me know the other places it should be linked from (main SHR
 wiki?)


 Rakshat

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Re: SHR Stable Party

2010-02-23 Thread rakshat hooja
As we build up to the SHR Stable renaming of SHR Testing and (hopefully) a
number of SHR Stable parties across the world, I have been thinking about
what all we can do to create more awareness about SHR (and FSO) among
embeded developers as well as users. Three ideas have come to me (as in
within the last miniute so please excuse if they are not developed properly)

1) We need to create press releases that we can emai/ mail/ fax to our local
(or global for that matter) tech media outlets. Actually I am thinking of 2
sets of press releases. One for the various developer communities who may be
interested and one for the general public focuses media. The general public
press release needs to give an idea of what SHR is, what it is trying to
acheive,its benifits and usefullness etc with screen shots. The community
announcement can be more technical and also acknowledge the core developers
(if they agree). I see these going out to the tech editor of your local
newspaper, tech blogging sites, news agencies, maybe some companies too
along with the big tech news websites. If we all send these out in our own
regions we may get some coverage

2) This weekend I am going to make a questionnaire for the SHR core team
asking questions about the history of SHR (how it came to be, who were the
key people in the begining etc), who all are working on it currently and
what all are they contributing, what technologies and toolkits SHR uses and
supports, Why SHR should be used, What are the future plans and new targeted
platforms, What help do they need, What contributions the community can make
etc. I will post the questionnaire on these mailing lists and maybe the
SHR-devloper list too. Once the answers are there maybe some of you with
bolgs can edit and make an article for your blogs/ for sending to magazines
for publication.

3) If someone can make a small SHR user logo, the SHR  users can put it on
their blogs/ websites.

Please send feedback and more ideas.

Rakshat

PS - Also add your names for the various SHR Stable parties

http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/SHR_Party_Page

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:53 PM, rakshat hooja raks...@gmail.com wrote:

 As promised I  have put together a very basic framework of the SHR Stable
 release party planning page

 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/SHR_Party_Page

 Please go through it and add your information/ improve it/ send feedback.

 Currently it is only linked from the SHR page on the OM wiki

 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/SHR#SHR.2FStable_release_party

 Please let me know the other places it should be linked from (main SHR
 wiki?)


 Rakshat

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Re: SHR Stable Party

2010-02-23 Thread Neil Jerram
[Not copying shr-user because I'm not subscribed there and so my email
will be bounced...  But please feel free to add shr-user back again in
any followups.]

On 23 February 2010 19:26, rakshat hooja raks...@gmail.com wrote:
 As we build up to the SHR Stable renaming of SHR Testing and (hopefully) a
 number of SHR Stable parties across the world, I have been thinking about
 what all we can do to create more awareness about SHR (and FSO) among
 embeded developers as well as users.

For me personally, the most effective demonstrations - and hence
publicity - are good Youtube videos.  So I would recommend SHR users
to prepare some really slick ones, showing lots of different uses of
the phone - and including for phone calls! :-)  Then the best of those
can be linked from any press releases.

I think your other ideas are good too, but some slick, well produced
videos would be great.

Regards,
 Neil

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Re: SHR Stable Party

2010-02-23 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Awesome plan, Rakshat, thanks for your work!

We're probably not doing enough PR in general -- next week I'll work on
giving the FSO website a new couple of entry pages that document what
we're after and why we're better than the competition ;)

Cheers,

:M:



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Re: SHR Stable Party

2010-02-20 Thread Giovanni
Anyone in Turin, Italy?

ciao
jo


On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 2:40 AM, David Reyes Samblas Martinez 
da...@tuxbrain.com wrote:

 I like the idea :) Bacelona people what do you think?
 rakshat propone hacer una party el mes que vuene el dia en que shr
 testing pase a stable, algun bareto en el que podamos quedar y hacer
 una birra para celebrarlo?
 Hacer una paralela en Madrid?
 2010/2/19 rakshat hooja raks...@gmail.com:
  As promised I  have put together a very basic framework of the SHR Stable
  release party planning page
 
  http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/SHR_Party_Page
 
  Please go through it and add your information/ improve it/ send feedback.
 
  Currently it is only linked from the SHR page on the OM wiki
 
  http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/SHR#SHR.2FStable_release_party
 
  Please let me know the other places it should be linked from (main SHR
  wiki?)
 
 
  Rakshat
 
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Re: SHR Stable Party

2010-02-20 Thread Davide Scaini
If someone interested: Trieste - Italy
:)
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Re: SHR Stable Party

2010-02-20 Thread Giovanni
done

ciao
jo


On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 8:58 PM, rakshat hooja raks...@gmail.com wrote:



 On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Giovanni pino.o...@gmail.com wrote:

 Anyone in Turin, Italy?

 ciao
 jo

 Please add your name and Turin to the wiki page

 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/SHR_Party_Page

 Rakshat






As promised I  have put together a very basic framework of the SHR
 Stable
  release party planning page
 
  http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/SHR_Party_Page
 
  Please go through it and add your information/ improve it/ send
 feedback.
 
  Currently it is only linked from the SHR page on the OM wiki
 
  http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/SHR#SHR.2FStable_release_party
 
  Please let me know the other places it should be linked from (main SHR
  wiki?)
 
 
  Rakshat
 
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Re: SHR Stable Party

2010-02-19 Thread David Reyes Samblas Martinez
I like the idea :) Bacelona people what do you think?
rakshat propone hacer una party el mes que vuene el dia en que shr
testing pase a stable, algun bareto en el que podamos quedar y hacer
una birra para celebrarlo?
Hacer una paralela en Madrid?
2010/2/19 rakshat hooja raks...@gmail.com:
 As promised I  have put together a very basic framework of the SHR Stable
 release party planning page

 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/SHR_Party_Page

 Please go through it and add your information/ improve it/ send feedback.

 Currently it is only linked from the SHR page on the OM wiki

 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/SHR#SHR.2FStable_release_party

 Please let me know the other places it should be linked from (main SHR
 wiki?)


 Rakshat

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