Re: Wiki - New Page - OpenMoko Community Applications
Hi JW, This is wonderful. Thanks for coming up with the idea and for implementing it. I look forward to seeing more applications on this page. Regards, Michael JW wrote: Hi OpenMoko Community, I was thinking about the target market for Neo FreeRunner - the non-geek smartphone user. There is very little to tempt them in the current wiki and indeed the main page dedicated to them is * hidden halfway down the main page * refers to them as "basic end users" Both of these need changed but I haven't done this yet as I didn't want to mess with the main page structure. However I did create a new page to provide an advert for all the great software that is being ported or developed for the OpenMoko platform right now. I have filled in two example apps I personally heard about (hope the devs feel ok to be featured!). Please have a look and as usual change what you want done better :-) The Basic_End-user page http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Basic_End-user The new OpenMoko Community Applications Page http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/OpenMoko_Community_Applications JW ___ 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
Re: Wiki - New Page - OpenMoko Community Applications
Shawn Rutledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That looks maintenance-intensive, and pretty soon would tend to be > long and unwieldy (too many packages); consequently it will tend not > be very trustworthy, because who's going to keep it updated? That is a very fair point. However this page was intended to be a short advert for the type of thing available for _non-techy_ possibly _non-linux_ users to turn them on to the possibilities of open source software for the OpenMoko platform. I suggest we solve this one by * listing a max of 8 good applications that would appeal to the ordinary smartphone user * add the link to the projects page (which I meant to add but forgot) If anyone feels that is counterproductive then feel free to remove and simply replace with a link to the projects page. JW ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Wiki - New Page - OpenMoko Community Applications
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 16:48 -0700, Shawn Rutledge wrote: > And BTW this method would not work for finding TangoGPS, because the > ipkg is on its own separate site. (Why? it must mean it's too hard > to get a new ipkg into the regular repository, right?) I haven't yet asked anybody to get tangoGPS into the offical repository - I first want to collect user expericene feedback. However: I like Ubuntu's idea with Universe / Multiverse. The first being the official set of apps maintained or endorsed by Openmoko and the second one being a wider collection of software. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Wiki - New Page - OpenMoko Community Applications
Shawn Rutledge wrote: > And BTW this method would not work for finding TangoGPS, because the > ipkg is on its own separate site. (Why? it must mean it's too hard > to get a new ipkg into the regular repository, right?) Getting it into the openmoko feeds requires 1) Getting it into OpenEmbedded 2) Adding it to the openmoko-feeds recipe. Admittedly, #1 is a fairly high barrier to entry. -- Rod ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Wiki - New Page - OpenMoko Community Applications
On Feb 6, 2008 3:18 PM, JW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The new OpenMoko Community Applications Page > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/OpenMoko_Community_Applications That looks maintenance-intensive, and pretty soon would tend to be long and unwieldy (too many packages); consequently it will tend not be very trustworthy, because who's going to keep it updated? All manually? What's wrong with browsing http://projects.openmoko.org/ ? I was thinking something more like packages.gentoo.org would be nice - an index of every package that ipkg can download, with as much descriptive stuff as can be assembled from existing sources. The mere existence of the package on a known ipkg source site (or the bitbake recipe in the dev tree) should be enough to cause this "package metadata" site to be up-to-date automatically, without having to register on projects.openmoko.org plus set up the bitbake recipes plus edit this new wiki page too... oh and if you run on other distros besides OpenMoko, maybe better register the project at Freshmeat and Sourceforge too. I usually just ssh to the phone and do ipkg list | grep likely-name-fragment to see if something is available, because that way I can also find libraries and such, which would not appear on projects.openmoko.org. Is there already a more complete index like that on the web? And BTW this method would not work for finding TangoGPS, because the ipkg is on its own separate site. (Why? it must mean it's too hard to get a new ipkg into the regular repository, right?) And it's not on projects.openmoko.org either. This kind of fragmentation must mean the process is too cumbersome, and we need a master index which aggregates everything automatically so end-users have just one place to look. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
