Community news 2011-03-01

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Over at our Osmocom GSM friends, Marcin Mielczarczyk gave a status update on his effort to run Linux on a MTK 6235 smartphone, including Youtube video to show Angstrom/OPIE running on the phone. The big task of actual GSM baseband action is still missing, but I think this is one of the most promising approaches towards a free phone.

Angstrom/OPIE booting on MTK 6235 phone

David from Tuxbrain posted his impressions from attending FOSDEM 2011 in Bruxelles.

David in Bruxelles, with NanoNotes, Milkymist One, and other gear.

Milkymist

Kristian Paul took copyleft hardware principles to heart, and had a case made for his Milkymist One locally in Colombia, using the same CAD files as the original cases from Raumfahrtagentur.

Bogota made Milkymist One case (10 USD for the case, 5 USD shipping to Kristian Paul in Buga)

Sharism is now selling full Milkymist One sets including case for 499 USD plus shipping.
Yanjun Luo fixed a USB high-speed bug that slipped into the first jtag-serial daughterboard run. Existing stock was reworked by Adam, and bad boards in the field will be replaced (the bug was known before but a decision was made to go ahead because even with the bug, the boards work fine in still fast USB full-speed mode). [1]
Many bug fixes and improvements, such as a hardware fix for an FPGA bootup configuration problem, RTEMS Ethernet driver fixes, added mouse-wheel support in Flickernoise and PDF-based help system.

Jane sent a Valentine's Ascii art gift, and continued with her case collection. (Valentineqi.ae)

	Jane's NanoNote case group hug

Ben	and his wife.

Curveship on NanoNote

Thanks to David, kyak and others, new ports to Ben NanoNote's OpenWrt image were finished: Emacs, MPlayer, Brainless, flite, pyclock, supertux, sokoban, qball and more... (Full Applications List).
Xiangfu released a new stable OpenWrt image, 2011-02-23 (Announcement, Changelog, Applications List).

OpenWrt on Ben NanoNote	Xiangfu Liu trying to convert rms (old picture)

David from Tuxbrain collected all information about Werner's Universal Breakout Board (UBB) on a wiki page, and then announced taking preorders for the UBB (Announcement, UBB wiki page, Tuxbrain shop).