Mockup or what else?

[Wolfgang Spraul]

Treviño,

> However there's another question to Openmoko: another important
> developer left openmoko; unfortunately he's not the first of the list.
> Why this happens so often? In every message I've read about, it's  
> always
> stated that there's no so much "openness" as it should be.

This happens because Free Software is driven forward by highly  
motivated and opinionated individuals.
'pro-active' people rather than people waiting for orders.
Openmoko is brave enough in hiring a whole bunch of them and trying to  
make them work together. I think I can say we are moderately  
successful at that, at least we are shipping actual phones and have  
actual software running on them. I know about the bugs...

We are constantly looking for people who want to join, right now  
especially in graphics (with focus on 3D) and kernel work.
As raster says on his blog, Openmoko was a "non-working thing" for  
him, and he is now a "free man" and can work "without interference".
I think that's great!
Openmoko cannot possibly fund all Free Software projects in the world.
We can only use our very limited financial resources (which come from  
phone sales), to pay for certain things that are _MISSING_ in the Free  
Software world and we feel won't be created by themselves or by others.
Going forward we want to have a much stronger focus on quality, bug  
fixing, kernel robustness, automated testing, production testing, etc.

For the Openmoko factory images, everything stays the same with  
regards to Enlightenment, in fact we have only just started to use it  
more and more.
Going forward, EFL and Edje will become central pieces in Openmoko's  
factory images.
I think that's a pretty big commitment, and I hope raster will  
appreciate. It's because his software is good! Maybe one day we can  
convince him to "take one for the team" again and work for Openmoko.  
Maybe not.
Our doors are open, for raster and others who think they can help  
Openmoko. Email us at hr at openmoko.com.

Best Regards,
Wolfgang

On Sep 16, 2008, at 12:06 PM, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote:

>> On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:13:39 +0200 Bumbl <bumbl3x3 at gmail.com>  
>> babbled:
>>
>>> http://www.rasterman.com/files/illume-new-01.png
>>> http://www.rasterman.com/files/illume-new-02.png
>>> http://www.rasterman.com/files/illume-new-03.png
>>>
>>> Are these mockups or where can I obtain this theme.
>>>
>>> It looks amazingly good.
>>
>> i don't do mockups... :) they pollute! :) it's real. ignore the  
>> clock and its
>> background - that's just a test app i wrote (called Ello). i'm in  
>> the middle of
>> doing illume extensions to e17's nw default theme.
>
> Woow! That's really amazing... Rasterman you're always the only who  
> can
> make us dreaming even more.
>
> Btw I didn't read before the bad news about leaving Openmoko [1]...  
> This
> made me really so much sad. Reading your latest mail I figured that  
> your
> relationship with Om was not going so well (didn't they leave you  
> enough
> space of developing how and what you'd have liked?), but I really  
> hoped
> that this wouldn't ever happen... :(
>
> Now that enlightenment is so important for Openmoko, what will be our
> future? Since the main E developer isn't anymore part of Openmoko, its
> development won't be anymore Om-focussed; then Rasterman in the near
> future could be occupied in other things, so his interest for e- 
> embedded
> could decrease and with it also the quality of the software that  
> we'll use.
>
> However there's another question to Openmoko: another important
> developer left openmoko; unfortunately he's not the first of the list.
> Why this happens so often? In every message I've read about, it's  
> always
> stated that there's no so much "openness" as it should be.
> This won't to be a flame, but we all know how people like Rasterman  
> are
> important for the project. I can't really understand how we can throw
> those opportunities away...
>
>
> [1] http://www.rasterman.com/index.php?page=News
>
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