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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 …
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 pe…
OpenMoko Coreteam in Frankfurt/Main
During most of the long easter weekend, 3/4 of the OpenMoko coreteam met in Frankfurt/Main at my place. It was a very productive meeting and we discussed a lot of topics. My wife Sabine coddled us with lots of excellent food and had to spend half of the easter vacation alone… sorry for that and than…
OpenMoko p0-Developer Meeting in Braunschweig
Just returned from a tiny OpenMoko p0-Developer meeting in Braunschweig. It was a packed weekend full of work and though we only managed to process 70% of the Agenda I came up with, we made a lot of progress. In case you’re curious, here is the list of things we did: Status Report Neo1973-Hardware …
Projects, Projects, Projects…
I’m on overload. Really. After finishing my thesis I was hoping things would calm down by now and that I had a chance to stand down for a couple of months, thinking about my place in the world and how my life should develop in the next years. Alas, this turned out to be a false hope. I end up having…
Things falling into place for P1
Two weeks before the first phase-1 devices are to be shipped, things start to fall into place. The hardware seems reasonably stable lately and we now have a working dialer and basic PIM applications. Just a couple of minutes ago, I got the vibrator to work from userspace. The remaining construction …
Friction Losses
After quitting university and becoming a freelancer in September last year, my life has changed quite a bit. The most irritating thing is the amount of non-productive time I have to spend to be able to do productive work. While I was in university, almost 90% of the time I was in the office was spen…
Back from FOSDEM’07
FOSDEM was unbelievably exhausting this year. Being in charge of the OpenMoko application framework (which I had to talk about and attend way too many “business” meetings) and one of the founders of OpenEmbedded (which had a booth this year), my schedule just completely broke down: Of the 10 talks I…
Offence is the best defence
::: {.img-shadow} ::: Today at 16:00 I was notified that I successfully defended my thesis. Preceded by a 15 minutes report by me and slightly over an hour questioning me. It’s an unbelievable relief to know that the hardest part is over and this chapter can be closed real soon now. The last thing …
Emulating 20 year old hardware on a phone
Due to my preparations for the thesis defence — soon over, since tomorrow is “judgement day” — I have almost zero time to work on OpenMoko. Yesterday though I got one of the very few models with a case prototype, that means I can finally work with the vibrator and the speakers (which sit in the case…