NanoNote Personalities Program

NanoNote Personalities Program[1] 个人化流程 You know the changable cellphone cover fad, where they snapped on different colorful plastic covers? The NanoNote should offer different "spins" offering different types of functionality, aka "personalities".

Example personalities:

• graphing calculator
• electronic spelling dictionary / translator
• travel buddy (wikitravel / openstreetmap)
• puzzle games
• beginner programming languages (python, pascal, etc)
• PDA
• Gutenberg ebooks reader

Every personality would be available both as a downloadable image and preinstalled on SD cards sold as NN accessories. Every SD card would have a custom sticker to show at a glance which personality is installed on it. There would be a little case or slipcover for the NN that would include a little compartment for an SD collection.

Company responsibilities:

• Pay an artist to work with personality development teams on a

 a splashscreen + tiny SD sticker art for each team

• Pay good tech writers to develop user guides for each personality;

 bonus points for paying tech writers to help out on developer docs!!

• Provide hosting for personality development teams, but also support

 mirroring of install images for teams that want to use their
 own server

• Hire knowledgable and good-tempered customer support engineers

 willing to shield developers from grumpy customers and
 customers from grumpy developers

• Handle retail of the pre-installed SDs, including the custom

 stickers for branding (also offer stickers separately for those
 who want to download images to already-owned SD)

• Offer to donate some portion of pre-installed SD / sticker profit to

 project designated by leaders of corresponding dev team

Developer team responsibilities:

Most of the personalities would use the openwrt base, but some of the ones intended for hacking might slap the NN kernel into another embedded distro, e.g. a gentoo embedded experiment (gentoo has mips support).

• Work with artist to come up with custom splashscreen

 and SD sticker art

• Make sure the official splashscreen for the personality gets

 displayed at boot

• Answer questions from tech writer regarding user guide

[1] "program" in the sense of "something you can participate in",

   not in the sense of "code a computer executes"

p.s. Stephanie Lockwood-Childs, leader of Santa Barbara Linux Group, is author of NanoNote Personalities Program: http://lists.qi-hardware.com/pipermail/developer/2009-September/000518.html ---