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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.

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 HaralDd and the Swisscom research project !
There is a workaround to the GSM keeps reregistering bug, a.k.a. bouncing Calypso issue: prevent the model from entering deep sleep.
Unstable development of OM is moving back to OE.
Test reports
Fix Qtopia USSD requests, so one can dial "*123" or "#4".

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/

Linux 2.6.27 released.
Pulseaudio released version 0.9.13 with experimental support for Bluetooth devices.

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 * 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 [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/openmoko-kernel/2008-October/005542.html 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 !
+* Powersaving patches landed in stable-2.6.26 on October 8th. Note to application developpers: the best way to [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/openmoko-kernel/2008-October/005542.html blank the screen] to conserve power is the fbdev-ioctl method. I think that ''xset s 5'' should do it. Thanks to the HaralDd and the Swisscom research project !
 * There is a workaround to the [http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1024 GSM keeps reregistering bug], a.k.a. [http://moko.mwester.net/brc.html bouncing Calypso issue]: prevent the model from entering deep sleep.
 * Unstable development of OM is moving back to OE.
 * [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/002540.html Test reports]
+* Fix [https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/2038 Qtopia USSD] requests, so one can dial "*123" or "#4".
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