keep up the good work and good luck!<br>happy new year<br>y<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Wolfgang Spraul <span dir="ltr"><wolfgang@sharism.cc></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Mickey,<br>
congratulations for taking FSO this far and all the best and some good<br>
luck in 2010!<br>
<font color="#888888">Wolfgang<br>
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On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 02:31:22PM +0100, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:<br>
> In the name of the FSO team, I wish all of you a Happy New Year!<br>
><br>
> 2009 was a turbulent year for us, the year where Openmoko stopped<br>
> supporting us and we had to show our belief in the project by just<br>
> continuing with as much effort as possible. Thanks to all contributors<br>
> and users of our APIs.<br>
><br>
> 2010 will be a very critical year for FSO, perhaps the most critical<br>
> ever -- since it's going to show whether we dive into oblivion being<br>
> overrun by the "big guys", or whether we can establish and strengthen<br>
> our niche.<br>
><br>
> Middleware always has this problem of invisibility -- what people<br>
> recognize are applications, not so much the driving software layers<br>
> below. In order to be a bit more visible, I'd like all of you who are<br>
> using FSO to join Ohloh[1] and state that you are either a contributor<br>
> and/or using FSO.<br>
><br>
> If all goes well, 2010 will be the year where we finally migrate all<br>
> remaining FSO services to C (or Vala, to be exact), hence delivering a<br>
> significant speedup for your FreeRunner (or whatever device you run FSO<br>
> on).<br>
><br>
> Let me also remind you that we have a PayPal account for donations, and<br>
> are also available for contract work. Thanks for your support!<br>
><br>
> (1) <a href="http://www.ohloh.net/p/fso" target="_blank">http://www.ohloh.net/p/fso</a><br>
><br>
> --<br>
> :M:<br>
><br>
><br>
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