[gta02-core] PRESS: OpenMoko Layoffs Lead to New Open Hardware Venture

[Wolfgang Spraul]

Alvaro and Dave,

> Maybe soon we'll have hardware from our designs, a manufacturing 
> partnership, and a press release of our own  :-)  Who knows, qi-hardware 
> might even want to manufacture and sell it once we've got designs that 
> work!  :-)

Yes we share the same goals.
Qi is choosing tools (KiCAD) to be compatible with gta02-core.
See www.github.com/adamwang

As categories, we can imagine small clamshell computers (NanoNote), picture
frames, phones. No firm decision yet, we want to get the process right first.

I hope gta02-core gets produced faster than Qi could do it. For now we stay
in touch with regards to the tools.
But who knows, if Qi's progress is faster than we currently anticipate maybe
we get back to the phone faster, I don't know.
You can rest assured that I am doing a lot on the 'meeting' side to promote
gta02-core. Everywhere I go I talk about gta02-core.

Maybe I can get a large Chinese device manufacturer to invest in gta02-core,
meeting with senior people lined up in a few weeks. Hold your expectations
low, best is at ZERO, these talks mostly go nowhere. I just wanted to give
you this as an example that we are trying to help too.

Wolfgang

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 09:26:48PM +0100, Dave Ball wrote:
> Álvaro Lopes wrote:
> > Are we so "obsolete" that it's cheaper to hack other devices, are we 
> > not progressing well, are we [insert some rants and raves here if you 
> > see feasible] ?  
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > I am missing something here. I wonder if someone can explain me this 
> > from another point of view besides my own.
> 
> I think it's as much the nature of a press-release as anything else - 
> they always stress (and often exaggerate) the 'upside' of the current 
> venture.  In UK politics it's nearly universally derided as 'spin'.
> 
> This project and gta-next (or whatever that ends up being) are 
> definitely ambitious, but making steady (if not particularly speedy) 
> progress.
> 
> 
> If I've understood correctly, qi-hardware are designing (and 
> manufacturing) their own devices, but using as a starting point existing 
> selling hardware - then re-engineered / improved iteratively.  Similar 
> to our approach gta02 -> gta02-core, but starting from a different device.
> I think we have similar goals, but different paths to getting there.
> 
> Maybe soon we'll have hardware from our designs, a manufacturing 
> partnership, and a press release of our own  :-)  Who knows, qi-hardware 
> might even want to manufacture and sell it once we've got designs that 
> work!  :-)
> 
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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