NanoNote Personalities Program
NanoNote Personalities Program[1]
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
- VOIP phone
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 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:
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