I have to admit that I kind of agree with Marcus, especially in terms of leveraging the free marketing that will happen from an early release.<br><br>But in order to do this properly, we need to better organize the OpenMoko support infrastructure.
<br><br>Support will be required for:<br>* Hardware issues<br>* Core software applications<br>* Software stack issues<br><br>Marcus, how do you propose this will be done?<br><br>I think we need to first leverage the community to create a support infrastructure with at least the following minimum requirements:
<br>* a Bug/Feature tracking system per component of the software stack to track development/progress. <br>* a Wiki which we can use to create the HOWTOs, FAQs, and other guides which we can publish in PDF (or whatever) as manuals etc.
<br><br>What do you think about that?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Marcus Bauer</b> <<a href="mailto:marcus.bauer@gmail.com">marcus.bauer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 03:42 +0100, Robert Michel wrote:<br>> I don't think that people buy a new phone to going on holiday with the
<br>> new phone - AFAIK the most phones are sold November-January.<br><br>People buy phones all year round. And those that do so before their<br>holidays will come back and make perfect mouth-to-mouth propaganda. And<br>
when November comes the others will base their buying decision on<br>exactly that. It is perfect leverage at zero cost that you miss out.<br><br>I bet that in the christmas season 2008 (not this year) you will have<br>plenty of phones with GPS and VGA screens. And plenty of big companies
<br>throwing big marketing dollars at it.<br><br><br>> After the flame ware GNU Linux I fear the next flame on this list.<br>> Marcus your sound was absolutly childish, ego-based and unproductive.<br><br>Not at all. The best thing that could happen is a success of OpenMoko
<br>and FIC. Waiting with the phone until after the summer season is a huge<br>loss in free marketing. Just keep my mail and re-read it in two years.<br><br><br>> On the long term for nobody of us is it important to start in January,
<br>> or March<br><br>That's not true. It is a waste of first mover advantage. Once Google<br>comes out with a phone (unless they buy from FIC and use OpenMoko) the<br>market gets really tight.<br><br>Marcus<br><br>
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