Talk:Community Updates
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News log
Add the news in this page, and from time to time we will issue a community update.
Distributions
- Testing Qi, the new bootloader. It recently got resume support.
Applications
- OpenMooCow
- http://AccelSense.org follows up on GSoC Gestures project
- Rotation
- I read that powertop actually runs on the FreeRunner. For your information, this is an utility that allows to measure and therefore optimize power usage.
Hardware
- Guitar pick stylus Pouch
Hot bugs and most discussed issues
- Wifi
- Digital Audio Playing
- Kernels currently has the APM power management interface is still compiled. This has been deprecated for years and must go away, preferably sooner than later. Hopefully apm -s should still work for suspend, or do we need something else ?
- Powersaving patches landed in stable-2.6.26 on October 8th. Note to application developpers: the best way to blank the screen to conserve power is the fbdev-ioctl method. I think that xset s 5 should do it. Thanks to the Harald and the Swisscom research project !
- Where are GSM debouncing Calypso thing fixes ?
- Unstable development of OM is moving back to OE.
- Test reports
Wiki
Community
- www.opkg.org
- What would be the job description of a community manager
- Lowering barriers to participation (i.e. access to write priviledges in code repositories)
- Wrap-up of the "Lost community" thread: http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/discussion-13-openmoko-community-feelings/
More
Outside Openmoko
- Linux 2.6.27 released.
- Pulseaudio released version 0.9.13 with experimental support for Bluetooth devices.
Archives
See also
How are newsletters organized elsewhere: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/032628.html