I’ve never seen open source hardware target the mainstream until the OpenMoko team partnered with FIC to release the Neo 1973. Before that, it was just about all hobbyist electronics kits or Verilog code for FPGAs. Oh, and 3d printers, which are awesome. Yesterday I found out about the 本 (běn) NanoNote, an open palmtop.
When talking about microblogging I often see this question asked: “What can you say in 140 characters?” My answer is “Maybe a sentence, sometimes with a citation.” That falls within 140 characters but it’s missing too much, which is why I’m writing this short post. Most people I talk to hear “microblogging” and put too [...]
The first phone with OpenMoko support, FIC Neo 1973, can now be bought by anyone with a credit card. It’s $300 US for the basic kit which is pretty well stocked. It includes the stylus, headset, carrying pouch, a half gig memory card, lanyard and the data cable. The $450 developer kit stuffs all that [...]
Update July 23th 2007: The final copy of the reference is out. David Wheeler has recently written a slide on what popular FLOSS licenses mix and how. It includes the latest draft of GPL3. He’s posted it to his blog and he’s looking for comments. It doesn’t pack much depth into its one page but [...]
Writer of the Wikinomics book, Don Tapscott is giving this presentation. His book is on mass collaboration. He’s from New Paradigm. His book was given out with the expensive passes. All non-reserved seating is used. There’s about twenty people standing five minutes prior. Thirty-something two minutes prior to start. This has a lot of notes. [...]
The source is out and all of the development pages are open to the public. The announcement list has a bunch of urls. Additionally, new email lists have been created: announce, buglog, commitlog, distro-devel, framework-devel, gsmd-devel, openmoko-apps, openmoko-devel, openmoko-kernel, openmoko-uboot. For chat, hit irc.freenode.net’s #openmoko.
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