[ALL] New showroom for Openmoko apps

Rui Miguel Silva Seabra rms at 1407.org
Fri Aug 21 15:05:48 CEST 2009


Agreed, when opkg.org started I insisted a bit with Tobias so that he
wouldn't make it a distribution point but a facilitator towards finding
interesting apps *from*the*repos* :)

Rui

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 09:01:56AM -0400, Warren Baird wrote:
> Frankly, I'm not that fond of the name opkg.org...
> 
> As I said, I'd rather have some kind of an application database - something
> that explicitly *does not* provide opkg files.
> 
> Maybe we should get something like frappdb.org or something like that?
> 
> Warren
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms at 1407.org>wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 01:46:05PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 03:25:25PM +0300, Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
> > > > Opkg.org seems to be owned by the author so if the author is not
> > > > co-operative (cannot be reached, doesn't answer e-mails or jabber)
> > > > there's not much we or OM can do about it.
> > >
> > > Have any of these physical contacts been tried?
> > >
> > > We probably need a "foundation" of sorts to handle this kind of things,
> > > anyway, but I'm willing to donate the reasonable expense in order to buy
> > > the domain either from Tobias or if I manage to buy it after expiry and
> > > donate it to a foundation.
> > >
> > > rms at roque:~$ whois opkg.org
> > > (...)
> > > Domain ID:D154421724-LROR
> > > Domain Name:OPKG.ORG
> > > Created On:08-Oct-2008 07:38:10 UTC
> > > Last Updated On:08-Dec-2008 03:51:51 UTC
> > > Expiration Date:08-Oct-2009 07:38:10 UTC
> > > Sponsoring Registrar:ASCIO Technologies, Inc. - Denmark (R76-LROR)
> > > Status:OK
> > > Registrant ID:AT21297988-052
> > > Registrant Name:Tobias Kuendig
> > > Registrant Organization:Tobias Kuendig
> > > Registrant Street1:Sagenblickweg 6
> > > Registrant Street2:
> > > Registrant Street3:
> > > Registrant City:Ebikon
> > > Registrant State/Province:
> > > Registrant Postal Code:6030
> > > Registrant Country:CH
> > > Registrant Phone:+41.793909805
> > > Registrant Phone Ext.:
> > > Registrant FAX:
> > > Registrant FAX Ext.:
> > > Registrant Email:tobias.kuendig at gmail.com<Email%3Atobias.kuendig at gmail.com>
> >
> > Ijust tried the phone number, a woman who couldn't speak english or french
> > (just german) but understood enough to answer «no Tobias».
> >
> > I guess I'll just have to try to buy opkg.org
> >
> > Rui
> >
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