<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/1/11 Sebastian Krzyszkowiak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dos@dosowisko.net" target="_blank">dos@dosowisko.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Thamos <<a href="mailto:tigerred@gmx.de">tigerred@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> i am ambiguous about that.<br>
> I think we have already enough Operating Systems with QtMoko and SHR and<br>
> Replicant. (Did i miss a really working distro?)<br>
> But, as it seems to me, we don't have enough software developers, and as<br>
> Mozilla and Ubuntu are big projects, this seems to be a way to use their<br>
> ressources to get some nice features to our phones.<br>
><br>
> i don't know anything about the OSs themself to evaluate them.<br>
> And i don't know if they are really interested in working with us, as<br>
> you wrote, they are searching big players....<br>
><br>
> I think the question is if we have people on our side who want to start<br>
> such an project (and try to drag some of their developers in).<br>
><br>
> greets,<br>
> Thamos<br>
<br>
</div>Personally, I think that all we need is some good marketing inside the<br>
community. For many people that do not track Openmoko by themselves,<br>
this project is dead. When I mention it to someone, reaction is very<br>
often "is it still alive? Really?".<br>
<br>
Ubuntu and Firefox OS may be good opportunities to use for marketing.<br>
A lot of people inside those two communities will be interested in a<br>
phone that is completely free and allows them to run systems they're<br>
working on without fighting with some closed source binaries. This<br>
will also attract FLOSS-extremists (sorry for term, just couldn't find<br>
out anything better at the moment :D) to those OSes, so benefits will<br>
be mutual.<br>
<br>
I think that's the way we should promote ourselves right now. Instead<br>
of aiming for end users, we can attract developers of those projects.<br>
Most of them probably doesn't know about GTA04 at all, or think about<br>
it as a "Freerunner-zombie", which won't last long. If we're able to<br>
show them that OpenPhoenux exists and is constantly progressing,<br>
without repeating Openmoko mistakes from past, then developers for<br>
sure will be interested.<br>
<br>
Interested developers -> platform support -> way to reach end-users.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1</div><div>I share all the opinions of Sebastian: trying to put a bridge between all these projects make definitively sense. And it's probably nothing more than advertising about the vitality of the OpenMoko project.</div>
<div><br></div><div>At the same time, it's easy for me to say that as I'm unable to invest in this fantastic project.</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Guilhem BONNEFILLE<br>-=- JID: <a href="mailto:guyou@im.apinc.org">guyou@im.apinc.org</a> MSN: <a href="mailto:guilhem_bonnefille@hotmail.com">guilhem_bonnefille@hotmail.com</a><br>
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