Wow !!!<br><br>I'm very curious to listen more.<br><br>I wish you a bright future for you and your new company.<br><br>Giovanni<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Steve Mosher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@openmoko.com">steve@openmoko.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Community,<br>
As many of you know may 25th was my last official day at Openmoko.<br>
Since that time I have been focused on two<br>
things: First, putting my Openmoko business in order. There were several<br>
tasks that got cut off midstream by the layoff<br>
and I felt I owed it to the community to see those jobs through to some<br>
sort of conclusion. Having relied on volunteer work<br>
from the community for so long, it only seemed right that I contribute.<br>
I wanted to see the buzz fix program successfully<br>
implemented both in the EU and in North America. With help from Dr.<br>
Schaller, SDG, and Sean I was able to get that<br>
done. Next on my list was the GTA02 core project. When we canceled the<br>
GTA03 Werner and others started a community<br>
effort to do a phone design that was completely community driven. That's<br>
no small task, but it keeps the dream alive so<br>
I will continue to support it. On that front, we have met with some<br>
success. Building Open Source hardware requires money<br>
at some stage, money to buy parts and money to build prototypes.<br>
Openmoko has graciously agreed to donate some components<br>
to the project and I've put Werner in contact with people who can help<br>
with the prototype runs. It's still early and there is a<br>
lot of work to do, so pitch in if you can. I also wanted to see the<br>
foundation work kicked off. And lastly I tried to find some of my<br>
Openmoko friends employment which brings me to the second major thing I<br>
have been working on: Starting a new company.<br>
Wolfgang has alluded to this in a previous post and now is a good<br>
time to let you<br>
all know what we have been up to since late May. In the coming days as<br>
we get the web page together and lists set up<br>
I'll make some announcements and blog about the company and its<br>
mission. The key elements are 1. Using existing hardware rather than<br>
designing new hardware. 2. Focusing the software effort below the user<br>
levels, 3. targeting the linux developer community. The most important<br>
thing from our perspective is that there is no conflict with OM.<br>
Wolfgang and I met with Sean on Saturday and explained our plan. OM will<br>
focus on Project B so there won't be any conflict. We also agreed that<br>
in the future the two companies will be able to find ways to work<br>
together with OM perhaps picking up some of our products and applying<br>
their focus-- Industrial design and user interface.<br>
I'll be back to announce the name of the company in the coming week<br>
or so as we build out the web page. You can write me<br>
here or at my personal gmail account. (moshersteven@)<br>
<br>
Best Regards All,<br>
<br>
Steve.<br>
<br>
<br>
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