User:Wolfgang Spraul

You can reach me via email and Jabber at wolfgang@sharism.cc.

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Qi Community News 2011-03-01

• 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. Dr. Schaller from gta04.org looking on.

Milkymist

• Kristian Paul hacked Lua onto his Milkymist One (more about Lua on Wikipedia).

• 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 [2], RTEMS Ethernet driver fixes, added mouse-wheel support in Flickernoise and PDF-based help system.

NanoNote

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

Jane's NanoNote case group hug

• Irina Bushmeleva joined Jane's crochet case production. [3]

Ben	and his wife.

• Nick Montfort released Curveship 0.5, an interactive fiction system, and immediately ported it to his Ben NanoNote. (Curveship sources)

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)

• Werner Almesberger proposed a Universal Breakout Board as the cheapest way to get the relatively flexible NanoNote memory card interface exported for external use (wiki page about UBB).

• David from Tuxbrain announced taking UBB preorders (shop).
• Mirko Vogt did a hardware and software hack to control RF power sockets from a Ben NanoNote with the help of a HopeRF ISM module. (Mirko's blog post, hackaday.com article)

NanoNote talking to remote switchable power sockets via HopeRF module.

--Qi team 09:30, 1 March 2011 (CET)

My Job

• selling Ben NanoNote, Milkymist One
• hardware quality, customer support
• Qi server admin (MediaWiki extension tests here)

To Do

(note: if anything classifies as wishful thinking, it's my To Do list. If things are on this list, it means I am not immediately attending to them, and that means they will probably stay on this list for a very long time. But still, all of those things do need to get done, one day...)

Item	Description	Status
Zaurus and Jornada marketing	think about ways to market NanoNotes to current Sharp Zaurus and HP Jornada communities	not started
marketing	think about ways to market NanoNotes to nslu2, local wikipedia chapters, openstreetmap.org communities	not started
Thawte certificate	look into Paymentasia's Thawte certificate (report)	not started
rohs PDF	write proper RoHS document for Sharism Ltd.	not started
email Steve Park	introduce Milkymist, maybe when Milkymist One is available	not started
email Balaji	introduce Milkymist project	not started