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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,...
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 thanks for everything :-) We talked about administrative things, schedules, hiring people, supporting OpenEmbedded, and the state of the current hard- and software. Unfortunately most of the really hot topics discussed at the meeting could be classified as confidential, however I think I'm allowed to...
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 Mickey (OpenMoko) [done] Status Report Stefan, Jan, Daniel (OpenEZX, OpenMoko) [done] Full update/quickfix pass through the OpenMoko bugtracker [60% done] Review current OpenMoko software state, fix some obvious bugs [done] OpenMoko ring/alarm/sms tones (Marek) [done] Plan of action for the next 2 months (Daniel and Stefan)...
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 no spare time left at all. Things really went crazy, since last year I commited myself to fulfill a contract this March -- based on the assumption that my involvement in OpenMoko would be reduced by now. Just yesterday...