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• FDOM: David released again, announcing that development moved to a new home. FDOM now exists as an installer script: the FDOMizer. It is meant to be run over the 2008.10 image or over existing FDOM installation.

Applications

• Sephora settings manager 0.2 alpha 3 released, adds GERMAN localization.
• Mokoko yet another media player.

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Wiki and community

• Academic projects at National Taipei University: The Bicycle Motion Information Displayer, Business Card Exchange system, Location-based mobile video streaming system
• Following the three GSoC interns at OpenMoko Inc., Tsing Hua OpenLab held a workshop on 10/29.

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Harald looked at optimizing the NAND memory speed timings on the GTA02: Some initial experiments show that the performance can be easily improved by 41%. However, the actual speed (6.59MBytes/sec) is still much lower than the theoretical maximum read performance of 15.64MBytes/sec. It seems there is more room for improvement inside the MTD layer of the Linux kernel.

Tick merged the fix for the 'Echo Bug’ ticket 1267 in the git around October 15th, it works, can use more field testing. See also the thread Echo issue on OM2008.08 solved on the community mailing list.

Outside Openmoko

• Open Handset Alliance announces the launch of Android Open Source Project. Koolu announces that Koolu Beta port of Android for Freerunner will be available to download for existing Freerunner owners and installed on phones for sale in November 2008, contact Brian Code there. Sean McNeil has been working on it too.

See also

• John's team status update for first week. They already have one minute of boot time shaved and stomped on the "echo" bug, working on {{Ticket[2071}}, python loader speed and resume visual feedback.

How are newsletters organized elsewhere: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/032628.html

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