[openmoko-announce] Crossroads
Grahame Jordan
gjordan at geicp.com
Wed Mar 14 00:07:45 CET 2007
Hi Sean,
What about the Marvell® 88W8385 module used on the wifistix
Open source drivers can be found at http://gumstix.com
Cheers
Grahame Jordan
Sean Moss-Pultz wrote:
> Dear Community,
>
> OpenMoko is built around the philosophy that far more knowledge exists
> outside the walls of a corporation than within. Internally, we're
> struggling with two issues. So we're throwing this out, hoping that some
> of you have can help us move past our current crossroads:
>
> 1) We can't find a WiFi Chipset with GPL'ed drivers -- We know
> this has been discussed (to death) on this list, but as we're
> beginning work on the next summer hardware refresh we still can't seem
> to find a vendor that meets our strict requirements: Namely, we refuse
> to put anything binary in the kernel.
>
> Marvell has some nice for larger devices (the 8388). But we need
> one specifically for mobile phones (like the 8686). If somebody
> can help us find the right vendor, we'll give you a free Neo1973.
>
> If you're a vendor and want to work with us to GPL your driver, we'll
> give you lots of business -- and a free phone ;-)
>
>
> 2) We don't have enough UI / Application developers -- If anybody
> meets (or knows somebody who can meet) the following qualifications:
>
> * >= 2 years experience with GTK
> * object oriented design and implementation w/ GObject
> * experience with writing GUI applications from scratch,
> * has software quality assets like:
> o writing maintainable and reusable code
> o refactoring
> o design patterns
> o identifying and extracting common application code
> into frameworks
>
> Familiarity with collaborative development tools such as:
>
> * bugtracker,
> * source control management,
> * wiki,
> * mailing lists
>
> is a necessity.
>
> We've love to talk with you! Please email coreteam at openmoko.org with
> links to your previous work and a resume if you have one. (The latter
> is nowhere near as important as the former.)
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> -Sean
>
>
>
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