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Catching up and plans for 2009
I felt it's time to recap the stuff that kept me busy the last months and give you an overview over the achievements planned for this year -- always focusing the free software movement, of course. freesmartphone.org Let's start with the major project I've been working on, the freesmartphone.org project, funded by Openmoko, Inc. FSO grows, and it grows in the right directions. We get more API customers -- notably the SHR project and the Paroli project -- and refine our API and the reference implementation. The 5th milestone has just been released and apart from a major foobar with...
Sid Player Update
Our Sid Player application has been on sale in the AppStore for three weeks now. We received quite a nice amount of feedback considering that this is a niche application -- thanks to all of you who downloaded and reviewed or mailed us! Behind the curtains, we have been analysing the feedback and have just started to work on the first update which we expect to be available within the next 4 weeks. This next release is mostly a database update, since we will add the missing songs from the HVSC directories 'GAMES' and 'DEMOS'. This adds about 2000 more...
Visiting 25c3 for one day
Although traditionally the Chaos Computer Congress' schedule is slightly suboptimal for me (12/26th is my birthday), I'm going to be in Berlin from 12/28th to 12/30th and will visit CCC on the 3th day (12/29th). I'm going to attend Harald's talk about GSM base stations, so if you want to talk to me, just pick me up afterwards.
Sid Player on iPhone
You all know how much I adore the C64 sound aesthetics. This is the #1 program I was missing in my iPhone. Out now in the App Store!
ogsmd and its modems
Recently, I have been working on adding more support for various types of modems to ogsmd. "Why's that?", I hear you say, "isn't that already done since long?". Yes and no. There are two dimensions where modems might differ: The way how the AT interface is exposed, The implemented AT command set. Both dimensions come with their own set of problems: Exposing an AT interface As you might know, there are basically three different means for exporting an AT interface: A single line without mulitplexing support, Multiple premultiplexed lines, A single line with multiplexing mode. Before we go into the...
Pornophonique
Thanks to my framework team buddy Daniel 'Alphaone' Willmann, I just fell in love with the german band Pornophonique. Everyone appreciating the 8-bit chipsounds we had in the old days of computing will absolutely enjoy their work. My favourite song is 'Sad Robot' from the album 8-bit-Lagerfeuer -- it sounds a bit Everlast-inspired, but hey, that's a very common 4-chord-loop. Did I mention that their music is creative commons licensed? Hats off, guys -- you rock!
CI61 06:50 FRA
::: {.img-shadow} {width="200"} ::: 好久不見! Three weeks passed within a blink. Last sunday, we smoothly landed in Frankfurt/Main after 14 hours of a calm flight. 4/5 of the Openmoko Framework Team (while Stefan was on vacation in .au and missed all the fun) met in Taipei to tackle some outstanding issues and synchronize with the plans for the next major Openmoko release. For a start, please refer to the blog postings of Charlie and Daniel, who mentioned some of the things we did in detail. Let me cover the current status and what we are going to work on in...
St.Augstin, Braunschweig, Berlin, Taipei
Although trying (really!) to cut down travelling, it's still a lot. Here's a sweeping swipe of what happened during the past couple of months and what's going to happen soon. Froscon FrOSCon took place at its usual place on the last weekend in August and it was a very well organized conference -- even better and more streamlined than the previous year was. I had the pleasure to listen to the Minix3 talk from Prof. Tanenbaum, which was very entertaining. Unfortunately my Openmoko talk was right after his one, so I had to take people kind of down to earth...