From hns at goldelico.com Sun Sep 4 22:03:38 2022 From: hns at goldelico.com (H. Nikolaus Schaller) Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2022 22:03:38 +0200 Subject: [LetuxOS] [OHSW.org] [Tinkerphones-Stammtisch] Happy New Year - and a better new year In-Reply-To: References: <0B7C5D97-F059-4B99-B547-99D703573A76@goldelico.com> Message-ID: <82025398-FD1E-4101-8FF1-E9B89928C450@goldelico.com> Hi Josua, nice to hear from you! Well, it really became quiet on all relevant mailing lists [1]. It looks as if there is no critical mass any more for topics that had been interesting in the past 15 years. I.e. OpenMoko, QtMoko, GTA04 etc. or people have moved to different media. Well, 15 years is a long time and people usually have changed priorities in their live during such a time frame. And there are similar projects like we had done back then with newer means. E.g. Libre, PinePhone, ShiftPhone etc. They have set up their own community tools. But as far as I see all of them are absolute niche an none of them got the same attractivity and general public attention as the original Openmoko got back in 2007. Well, it is like sending people to the moon for the second time. Nice, still challenging technology. But no breakthrough any more. No revolutionary approach. Smaller media coverage. So I have added some more mailing lists (even if this is some duplication) and let't see who else answers on which list and expresses interest. [1]: https://lists.goldelico.com > Am 01.09.2022 um 08:18 schrieb Josua Mayer : > > \o/ Good day to you all! > > Am 22.11.2021 um 21:10 schrieb H. Nikolaus Schaller: >> What we did have was a video conference in May this year with ca. 9 participants. >> There was a wish to have another meeting after the holiday season but nobody did organise something. > > Hi Nikolaus! > Yes indeed. I was busy with personal challenges back then, and was content with the break ... > Now however I would be interested to organise another of those meetings if there is any interest! > >> Interestingly it was on a different list: https://lists.goldelico.com/pipermail/open-hard-software-event/2021-May/thread.html >> >> So it appears as if we have two lists for more or less the same purpose... > > It seems we may want to advertise on more lists, or treat them as one? > Not sure how others feel about it, but I imagine with the general lack of chatter it might be okay. > > Any suggestions where to start a new thread for planning? > I do admit to having lost overview of the lists ... > > e.g. ohsw list + tinkerphones community + gta04-owners > > br > Josua >