Community Updates/2009-04-30

Revision as of 05:13, 29 April 2009

Period 18, Apr ~ 30, Apr, 2009

Distributions

• Om2009 The Om 2009 testing image for 13th April is available here.Angus is working on the next image for testing and should be available soon.

• Koolu announces Koolu-1.0 Beta 6 for the Android on Freerunner project. Release files, installation notes, and a change log can be found here

• SHR The SHR unstable has now been migrated to testing feed. Some of the discussions can be followed here

• Qt Extended latest fixes can be tracked from the latest and greatest progress mail 10

• AUIMD version 0.3 The third release of AUIMD, a user interface for mobile devices written with PyQt. This version focuses on the usability of the phone application and mainly adds support for a call log and basic management of contacts.

Applications

New Applications

• Dictator It's a recording application which records your speech via mic, the incoming gsm-sound only or both --> a whole phone call.
  • http://www.opkg.org/package_207.html

• Woosh Its the new web browser for Hackable 1 .Woosh is based on webkit thus complex webpages are viewable too
  • http://lists.hackable1.org/pipermail/hackable1-user/2009-April/000237.html

• Fingertier A minimal 'Ipod Shuffle like' and finger friendly music player.
  • http://code.google.com/p/fingertier/

• Fatfingershell0.1it is a new virtual terminal for Openmoko, with a complete fullscreen keyboard

and sound.You can check these videos to get an idea

• • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qR4FETGzkA
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f67HKAkx61w

Application Updates

• PyFlash 0.4 PyFlash 0.5 will have flashcards for all katakana, hiragana and different groups of kanji,with increasing in difficulty

• gvSIG Mobile 0.1.3 includes a tweaked GUI, access to Microsoft mapping and support for ESRI ArcIMS servers
  • http://gvsigmobileonopenmoko.wordpress.com/

• Orrery 2.6 is available. This version includes a new method for quickly changing the sky display's center azimuth (rather than just panning 45 degrees at a time), and information about meteor showers. A bug that prevented fullscreen mode and flashlight modes from working under SHR has been fixed. The new version is available here

Community

• Neofreerunner on twitter now If you are on twitter do not forget to follow neofreerunner and tweet us whenever you like

• Latest Electronic Design interview with Sean Moss-Pultz

• Kernel Updates For anyone who has missed out the mail from Nelson on weekly post of recent kernel updates,read here

• Pictures of Buzz fix party Barcelona on the wiki and full description of the event in spanish

• The second Munich Beergarden Meeting took place on 20th of April.

Event News

• 2009-06-25/26 OPEN SOURCE IN MOBILE 2009 | to be held in Westin Taipei Taiwan | Openmoko Sean will give a speech.

• 2009-07-02/05 LVEE 2009 | The 5th International conference of developers and users of free / open source software “Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe” to be held in Grodno (Belarus)