Re: GSoC 2008

2008-03-28 Thread D. R. Newman
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: Hi guys, as you may have already noticed, Openmoko Inc. has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2008. Please note that the list of ideas found on the wiki page is by no means comprehensive, it's rather a bunch of things we

Re: GSoC 2008

2008-03-26 Thread Stefan Schmidt
Hello. On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 19:02, Niluge KiWi wrote: I'm interested in the accelerometers features [1]: Recognising gestures is a really important part of the interface between the user and the phone. Seems this ideas gets the interest of a lot people. Nice. :) But as we only can choice

Re: GSoC 2008

2008-03-26 Thread Federico Lorenzi
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Stefan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 19:02, Niluge KiWi wrote: I'm interested in the accelerometers features [1]: Recognising gestures is a really important part of the interface between the user and the phone.

RE: GSoC 2008

2008-03-26 Thread Crane, Matthew
To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re: GSoC 2008 Hello. On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 19:02, Niluge KiWi wrote: I'm interested in the accelerometers features [1]: Recognising gestures is a really important part of the interface between the user and the phone. Seems this ideas gets

Re: GSoC 2008

2008-03-25 Thread Evgeny Ginzburg
Niluge KiWi wrote: With the two accelerometers in the FreeRunner, I think we can recognise lots of gestures, not only simple ones like a click (which is already recognised by the accelerometers used in the FreeRunner). The main difficulty is probably to extract the useful data from the gestures

Re: GSoC 2008

2008-03-25 Thread ewanm89
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:02:34 +0100 Niluge KiWi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm a student in the french engineer school ENSIMAG, and I would like to work for OpenMoko during the Google Summer of Code. I'm interested in the accelerometers features [1]: Recognising gestures is a really

Re: GSoC 2008

2008-03-25 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: Niluge KiWi wrote: With the two accelerometers in the FreeRunner, I think we can recognise lots of gestures, not only simple ones like a click (which is already recognised by the accelerometers used in

Re: GSoC 2008

2008-03-25 Thread joerg
Am Di 25. März 2008 schrieb Andy Green: [...] It means that a perfect solution is predicated around - 16 bit integer arithmetic -- ha no float is too easy - per-sample short processing rather than large batching - multiply is expensive (but hey shifting is cheap :-) ) Divide? Hey, for

Re: GSoC 2008

2008-03-25 Thread Niluge kiwi
Somebody in the thread at some point said: The raw accelerometer data is predicated around byte data for X Y Z per sample per motion sensor. Ultimately the gesture recognition action is about eating 200 3-byte packets of data a second and issuing only one or two bytes per second about any

Re: GSoC 2008

2008-03-25 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: Somebody in the thread at some point said: The raw accelerometer data is predicated around byte data for X Y Z per sample per motion sensor. Ultimately the gesture recognition action is about eating 200

Re: GSoC 2008

2008-03-23 Thread Ilja O.
Seems that hardware is quite likely to become available before summer. (This is only my opinion and I'm not related to Openmoko otherwise than being listed in community and kernel mailing lists). ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: GSoC 2008

2008-03-23 Thread Stefan Schmidt
Hello. On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 06:24, ewanm89 wrote: I'm heavily interested in apply to get the ad-hoc communication going for GSoC 2008. Great. We had a try last year, but it failed. Nice to see it going again. I just wondered what is the situation on getting the hardware? What exactly do

Re: GSoC 2008

2008-03-23 Thread ewanm89
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:39:29 -0300 Stefan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What exactly do you mean here? If Freerunner will be available at the time, or if Openmoko provide students the hardware? Well obviously the hardware costs money that I don't expect to just come from nowhere, I was more

Re: GSoC 2008

2008-03-23 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
ewanm89 wrote: On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:39:29 -0300 Stefan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What exactly do you mean here? If Freerunner will be available at the time, or if Openmoko provide students the hardware? Well obviously the hardware costs money that I don't expect to just come from

Re: GSoC 2008: Call for ideas

2008-03-12 Thread Jens Fursund
As I am not an owner of a Neo myself, I do not if this has already been done. What about making it possible to listen music, and as a call comes in(and you answer it), make the music pause. I know this is a small thing, though I don't know how easy it is to implement, but I think it would be quite

Re: GSoC 2008: Call for ideas

2008-03-11 Thread Michele Renda
I was thinking to a port of AirStrike (http://icculus.org/airstrike/) but there is the need of SDL-image port I am waiting for FreeRunner :) ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: GSoC 2008: Call for ideas

2008-03-11 Thread Ilja O.
Sqlite port would be nice thing to have. (With C/C++/Python bindings, of course) ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: GSoC 2008: Call for ideas

2008-03-11 Thread Marcus Bauer
already there, thanks to openembedded: http://buildhost.openmoko.org/daily/neo1973/deploy/glibc/ipk/armv4t/sqlite3_3.5.6-r0_armv4t.ipk On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 22:52 +0200, Ilja O. wrote: Sqlite port would be nice thing to have. (With C/C++/Python bindings, of course)

Re: GSoC 2008: Call for ideas

2008-03-10 Thread Ilja O.
Hello. In my opinion, there are some highly usable project proposals in wish list, that could be done by student (like me, heh-heh-heh...) during summer. First things first: platform should provide more than one GUI binding solutions. In my opinion binding framework porting priority is

Re: GSoC 2008: Call for ideas

2008-03-09 Thread Lally Singh
For middleware, it looks like all that's really needed is an OM version of Cocoa's NSNotificationCenter. IMHO I think it's a great place to start -- just a filtered event channel with a C-callable API for publishing/listening for events. I'd prefer a design that's simple reliable for small data

Re: GSoC 2008: Call for ideas

2008-03-09 Thread Joachim Steiger
Lally Singh wrote: For middleware, it looks like all that's really needed is an OM version of Cocoa's NSNotificationCenter. IMHO I think it's a great place to start -- just a filtered event channel with a C-callable API for publishing/listening for events. I'd prefer a design that's simple

Re: GSoC 2008: Call for ideas

2008-03-09 Thread Lally Singh
Cool, can we use it directly or need a port? On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Joachim Steiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lally Singh wrote: For middleware, it looks like all that's really needed is an OM version of Cocoa's NSNotificationCenter. IMHO I think it's a great place to start --