[Tinkerphones] FOSDEM Talks

H. Nikolaus Schaller hns at goldelico.com
Thu Feb 7 19:51:13 CET 2019


Hi Paul,

> Am 07.02.2019 um 17:21 schrieb Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk>:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I saw that there were a number of FOSDEM talks related to this list and to 
> some of our previous discussions. For instance:
> 
> "FST-01SZ (Flying Stone Tiny 01 revision ShenZhen)"
> https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/gnuk_hardware/
> 
> "Maemo Leste"
> https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/maemo_leste_mobile/
> 
> This latter one is interesting in a number of different ways, as presumably 
> many people on this list already know, in that the project continues support 
> for the Maemo technologies, attempts to support various devices (including new 
> ones, if they get released), and directs effort towards various common 
> problems affecting open hardware projects (like supporting awkward 
> technologies such as whichever GPU product happened to get bundled in any 
> given SoC).
> 
> Indeed, on the topic of new devices, maybe someone bumped into the Necunos 
> people at FOSDEM. Digging around on their site finally brought me to this 
> page:
> 
> https://necunos.com/blog/fosdem19-updated-qa/
> 
> Personally, I cannot get excited by a device that is not developed in the 
> open, and it also doesn't seem to have cellular connectivity, but I guess it 
> might help drive Free Software development for such devices, at least.

Thanks for the impressions! I could not attend this year and didn't have
much time to look things up online.

Therefore I really appreciate suche summaries.

BR,
Nikolaus





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