[All] Status of the OM community

Wolfgang Spraul wolfgang at qi-hardware.com
Sat Aug 22 14:08:03 CEST 2009


Risto,

> My wish also would be that the (former) OM employees still around
> could rewrite/update the parts that concern OM the company in the
> wiki.

Can you point me to some parts you would like to see updated?
I'm not with the company anymore for 2 months, but maybe there are
still some things I can help cleaning up.

I agree with you that the community should show more leadership, the
Community News are a great example!
To me the FreeRunner remains the most interesting cell phone to do
hacking on today, even though it's a technical minefield. Or maybe it
is interesting because it is a minefield ;-)
Wolfgang

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 12:34:05PM +0300, Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> After OM announced the discontinuation of the OM software development,
> there was this discussion about starting a foundation to support the
> community.
> 
> What's the status? Any action taken?
> 
> I feel like suffering from the unorganized community: the wiki is a
> mess, apps around are outdated, no instructions available how to
> submit apps to repositories and how to create .bb recipes (I know SHR
> has it all better :), how to set up a development environment and so
> on. There's also a lack of communication about packages and
> dependencies: suddenly some library is updated and it breaks tens of
> apps without the author or packager knowing about it.
> 
> -> Coordination and leadership is needed!
> 
> I'm actually very happy that we ('the community') were able to start
> running Community Updates without anyone from OM to do it, see
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> My suggestion is to start with the cleanup of wiki: separate HW and
> SW, separate devel/user information, archive or delete outdated
> information, take good care of sites like
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Openmoko:Community_Portal
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Getting_Started_with_your_Neo_FreeRunner
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Introduction
> 
> My wish also would be that the (former) OM employees still around
> could rewrite/update the parts that concern OM the company in the
> wiki.
> 
> r
> 
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> | risto h. kurppa
> | risto at kurppa dot fi
> | http://risto.kurppa.fi
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