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Back in Frankfurt/Main for a few days
Yesterday night I arrived back in Frankfurt/Main. I'm going to stay until Friday and then head over to Taipei for a while to work on OpenMoko. As usual, the LinuxTag was very exhausting, but fun and productive at the same time. My talk was very well received and a lot of people are looking forward to (finally) get this phone into their hands. If you want to get an idea about what I presented, feel free to read the slides and hear the speech (sorry, german language this time). Once again, I took the opportunity to get some Berlin spirit...
OpenMoko on LinuxTag 2007
Writing this on my way to the LinuxTag 2007 that takes place in Berlin this year. In roughly 9 hours, I'm going to give a talk about OpenMoko -- the backgrounds, vision, and status. Due to all the stress with moving, I couldn't prepare like usual, however I'm sure it'll be good enough to spread the word :-)
Connectivity Problems Sorted Out
After Alice and T-Com seemingly wanted to play ping-pong with me -- repeatedly sending me to each other -- I took the matter into my own hands and solved the problem. All DSL and Telephony problems are sorted out now. Don't ask how :D The cable-TV issue has also vanished. I'm now using a satellite dish and the best free (as in free speech) sat receiver money can buy -- a Dreambox 7025 -- thanks to the nice folks @ Dream Multimedia TV, especially one of their core developers Felix 'tmbinc' Domke. Did I already tell you it runs a...
Moving finished (sort of)
I'm writing this post from within the new office room in our new appartement. Obviously the move is now over, although the new appartment is a mess and a lot of stuff is still missing and/or waiting for construction, i.e. the kitchen is scheduled to arrive mid-june :-( The last couple of days were a bit of a horror story. Telephony and DSL were scheduled to arrive @ 18th, which they did -- however not on the proper socket... the plug in the souterrain / office is scheduled to be attached to all the network hardware. It took me about...
Moving update
Since last friday we're sleeping in the new apartment. The only missing bits to move are some dishes and the office -- which will be moved on 20th and 21th. After that, the periods without connectivity will be over.
OpenMoko conquers Opie
Recently, goxboxlive from the Xanadux project sent me screenshots that show OpenMoko running on the HTC Universal. The fun part is that it doesn't run native, but on Opie with the Xqt2 X-Server on top. So... OpenMoko boldly goes where no free software platform has ever gone before ;-)
Apartment Moving
The serious phase of apartment moving has started last week and I'm right within. Please bear with (even more) latency in answering E-Mails for the next three weeks. I will probably also be completely offline for some days mid-May while the landline and DSL get "moved". In case of emergency, call my mobile.
Qt4
I just finished a four-week contract that involved development with Qt4. After developing in C with GTK+ for the last couple of months, this was quite a refreshing experience. This was my first non-trivial project with Qt4 and I'm quite impressed how well it went. Compared to Qt3 (and even Qt2, which I was stuck with on embedded platforms for a long time), Qt4 is a major leap forwards, especially with regards to concurrent programming (Threads) and separating data management and representation (Interview). Note that you want to use at least version 4.2 though, because earlier versions still have a...
Thesis -- the final act
Today I've submitted the obligatory copies of my commercially published dissertation to the Doctorate Office for Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. In return I got my certificate presented. This marks the final act of the thesis as I'm now entitled to call myself Dr. Michael Lauer. Sounds good to me ;-)
Google SoC 2007
OpenMoko is a mentoring organization for the Google Sommer of Code 2007. We received 60 student project applications (minus a few duplicates) and since a whole lot of projects were exciting, it was very tough to rank them. Unfortunately we only got assigned three project slots from Google -- if we perform well this year, then we might get more next year. Anyway, here is the list of accepted projects: ::: {.extern_app} [OpenMoko Music Player core application development](http://code.google.com/soc/openmoko/appinfo.html?csaid=4B963C4F3F275D36) [by Sören Apel, mentored by Michael Lauer]{.small} </div> ::: ::: {.extern_app} [WebKit/Gdk/cairo port and GUI for OpenMoko](http://code.google.com/soc/openmoko/appinfo.html?csaid=B5A2E96741FD60E4) [by Holger Hans Peter Freyther,...