Community update, January 2, 2008

[Michael Shiloh]

Joseph Reeves wrote:
> Hi Michael,

Hi Joseph,


> 
> Going back to your previous email first:
> 
>> Fortunately we have a watchful community to catch our mistakes as
> quickly as possible! Please continue to let me know if we make such
> mistakes in the future.
> 
> Please understand that I wasn't trying to suggest any mistakes had
> been made, 

No worries. I didn't think you had, but I did use the opportunity that 
you brought it up to explain our policy.




I was just after a little clarification. Really I was
> hoping that you'd give us some secret extra details ;-)

Nice try!


> 
> Your goal of keeping the project running on non
> region/religion/cultural time lines is a laudable one, but I'm so
> eagerly looking forward to the FreeRunner release that I wanted to
> know more!

We appreciate your enthusiasm.


> 
> My employer is looking to eventually purchase a couple of hundred
> FreeRunners, and we're all itching to buy a smaller batch for test
> purposes. We're not so interested in all the features, and aren't
> worried if we're not going to be buying a consumer ready phone
> platform; we want to build a tool, and the FreeRunner looks like the
> best base for it.

Sounds like a perfect match. We look forward to seeing what you build.


> 
> Having said that, I need to write a paper for an upcoming conference
> during which I'll be making just that point.
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Joseph

Best wishes,
Michael


> 
> 
> 
> On 10/01/2008, Michael Shiloh <michael at openmoko.org> wrote:
>> Hi Joseph,
>>
>> If we knew the date with 100% certainty I would certainly share it with you.
>>
>> As we have seen there is no standard meaning to the word "quarter" either.
>>
>> I'll go back to months. That's still somewhat Western-centric but
>> perhaps sufficiently accepted that it should not cause trouble.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> Joseph Reeves wrote:
>>> Talk of quarters might be more helpful (and standard within the
>>> business world), but a date would be even better!
>>>
>>> Joseph (waiting with anticipation)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/01/2008, Steven ** <montgoss+openmokocommunity at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> It's an excellent description because they don't want to be specific!
>>>> Push it more and I could see them just saying "It'll be out in 2008".
>>>>
>>>> -Steven
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 9, 2008 6:51 PM, Rod Whitby <rod at whitby.id.au> wrote:
>>>>> Jeff Bailes wrote:
>>>>>>> FreeRunner is due for release at the end of Spring, but which Spring
>>>>>>> is this? East Asia? US? Europe?
>>>>>>       I have to say, spring is a bad description of when FreeRunner will be
>>>>>> released, though from my knowledge East Asia, the US and Europe all have spring
>>>>>> at the same time +- 24 hours.  I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be spring in the
>>>>>> southern hemisphere since that's still ten and a half months away.
>>>>> Amen.  Using seasons for describing milestones (a common US behaviour)
>>>>> or even worse using holidays (e.g. we'll release that by Thanksgiving),
>>>>> is always the *wrong* thing to do.
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Rod (who is south of the equator, and also on a half-hour timezone)
>>>>>
>>>>>
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