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FrOSCon'07
I have seldomly seen a conference that was better organized than this years FrOSCon 2007 in St.Augustin. It was amazing -- a good technical program, interesting booths, nice catering, and a solid venue. One of the notable chats I had was with some guys from Tarent GmbH -- they're doing Java consultancy and already made some good progress in bringing Java to the Neo1973/openmoko "Robert Schuster's Blog"). By the way, since adding a screenshot utility to OpenMoko, people are uploading their screenshots to scap.linuxtogo.org. Be sure to check it out regularly, it's amazing what people are running on their Neos...
Conferences Ahead
Now that we successfully released the OpenMoko 2007.2 August Snapshot which was quite a huge undertaking since we changed a lot of things at once, we can continue improving the platform gradually and adding more functionality to it. The first batch of devices has been out in the wild for some time, so I'm going to talk about OpenMoko at some conferences and hope to gather some feedback from early adopters. We have a lot more stuff in the pipeline :D Next weekend, I'm going to be present at the FrOSCon 07 in St.Augustin, Germany and right after that in...
Python 2.5 in OpenEmbedded
Due to my overall workload, I have not had a chance to look much after the Python packages in OpenEmbedded. For the OpenMoko distribution, we want to stay neutral against scripting languages, that is, there won't be an official recommendation. However, my personal take on that should be well known. At the time I'm writing this, I'm working on a major Python upgrade in OpenEmbedded, bringing all Python packages up to date and adding some optimization patches I have been working on. Unfortunately, this also means I have to deprecate some of the packages which are end-of-life and won't work...
Chaos Communication Camp
I decided to visit this years Chaos Communication Camp near Berlin for a day or two. The mission is to have a coding sprint there that brings the first OM-2007.2 snapshot image up to par. I expect to meet some OpenMoko and OpenEmbedded guys there, i.e. Zecke, Stefan Schmidt, Alphaone, Shoragan, LaF0rge, Roh, ...
Back from Guadec
This year's GUADEC was very successful for me. I managed to attend to a lot of talks while still having time to perform several business meetings. OpenMoko Inc. was present in the GMAE meeting and contributed a tiny little bit to the discussions. GUADEC refreshed and renewed my interest and confidence in many GNOME technologies. My talk about OpenMoko and the Neo1973 was very well received and although I called for flames by stating that GTK+ as the heart technology of GNOME is also its weakest spot, I hardly received any. To the contrary -- other talks and discussions pointed...
Neo 1973 Phase 1 started
So we are finally selling hardware now. This is mainly a good thing, since we show that this device is not just vapourware. However, it is also a dangerous thing, since now people may buy this under false assumptions, being very disappointed because it (more or less) doesn't do anything... To put this very straight: THIS IS NOT AN END-USER DEVICE! IT IS NOT (YET) THE IPHONE KILLER WE ALL ARE WAITING FOR! THIS IS A DEVELOPER RELEASE, NOT A CONSUMER PRODUCT! It may not even always be a phone -- since thanks to all the distracting hoops and roadblockers...
EFL related work
While I was in Taipei, I revamped the EFL recipes in OpenEmbedded. They suffered from a lot of hackish workarounds that were necessary while EFL didn't use pkgconfig and had some bogus autotools usage. This is now history and so we have a more or less clean set of EFL recipes in OpenEmbedded! Related to that, I have recently been contacted by Andreas 'audifahrer' Volz who's going to work with me on refreshing my C++ bindings to the EFL that have unfortunately been stalled since many months. As a first step towards more visibility, we agreed to autoconfigize them (they...
Back to DefCon 4
We finally switched off the dryer on saturday and almost all of my stuff has been placed into the office again. I'm now fully operational again and can (finally) continue to work as usual *phew*
Back from first Taipei visit
Much like the first week, the 2nd week in Taipei really rushed by and I'm finding myself being back in Frankfurt for until the 15th of July, when I'm leaving to Birmingham to attend GUADEC. I will have a talk about OpenMoko there and I'm looking forward to meet a lot of GNOME guys and gals. My last day in Taipei was spiced by a whole day meeting with Carsten 'The Rasterman' Haitzler, whom we invited to visit us -- talking about graphics for next-generation user interfaces, the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries, and more. Raster is a really nice and competent...
First week in Taipei
The first week in Taipei has passend and it's really good to be here. FIC is a great place to work in a comfortable and focused way. All people are very kind and helpful. The climate is pretty warm and the humidity is a bit higher than what I'm used to, but then again, I'm spending the lions share of every day in the FIC building anyway :D I didn't have much of a chance to see some sites in Taipei yet -- and I'm afraid that won't change next week, so I have to come back soon. Of course...