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With the new Openmoko Framework initiative (as posted in previous installments of this column) facing its first milestone release unavailable (nothing but solid phone calls, so don’t be disappointed.

Momentum is something really strange!

::: {.img-shadow} {width=“200”} ::: So I’m rewriting the call handling in the Open Phone Daemon for the second time now.

I seem incapable of working together with some people.

I just realized it’s only 10 days until the Froscon call for papers unavailable has its deadline.

I have not been posting about my work for Openmoko for quite a while.

The guys from INdT posted the Bossa Conference promotional video for next year’s installment: Yours truly can be found a couple of times… so — how many appearances do I have in this video?

Sitting in the business center of the Beach Class Suites hotel trying to fix some strange bugs in ecore-native.

::: {.img-shadow} {width=“200”} ::: As I have mentioned previously, I’m really trying to cut down the number of conferences I go to this year.

::: {.img-shadow} {width=“200”} ::: Just returned from Brussels where FOSDEM 2008 took place.

So I have promised to travel much less this year, however some trips are inevitable.

As reported in previous installments of this column, the Maemo unavailable team picked me for a developer discount on the new Nokia N810 internet tablet (thanks again, folks!).

2007 was a very busy year for me.

I just rewrote the openmoko-terminal2 application (a lightweight terminal for the OpenMoko environment using Vte) in Vala.

Let me point you to two publications I found interesting: Interaction Designer Peter Sikking shows the necessity of a holistic approach in order to create stellar UIs.

Putting some new fuel to the neverending fire — whether the (undebatable) performance drawback of using a full-blown window system like X11 outweighs the benefits in flexibility; Just recently I built the Expedite benchmark utility (from the Enlightenment…

FSFE fellow Robert Schuster informed me about his progress bringing Java to OpenMoko unavailable and presents an interesting free software view of OpenMoko unavailable.

With a subtle delay of something like 11 months, I managed to visit the friendly guys from Kernel Concepts in Siegen last week.

I’ve been accepted to the N810 Internet Tablet developer device program — thanks Nokia!

On the last day I was in the OpenMoko Office, MokoNinja visited me and we recorded videos where I present the state of the OpenMoko Media Player and the Web Browser.

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Tomorrow, I’m heading over to Taipei for a while.

::: {.img-shadow} OEDEM07 photo unavailable. ::: The second annual OpenEmbedded DEvelopers Meeting took place in Berlin from the 6th to the 10th of October 2007.

::: {.img-shadow} [OpenExpo 2007 conference image no longer available - conference website has changed] ::: Just returned to Frankfurt after visiting the OpenExpo 2007 in Zurich/Oerlikon.

So Trolltech recently ported the Qtopia unavailable application suite to the Neo.

The Mobile Developer Days unavailable are a new conference aiming to create a platform where developers, network operators, service providers, and mobile manufactures can exchange their ideas and visions in the field of mobile communication.

I have seldomly seen a conference that was better organized than this years FrOSCon 2007 in St.Augustin.

Now that we successfully released the OpenMoko 2007.2 August Snapshot unavailable which was quite a huge undertaking since we changed a lot of things at once, we can continue improving the platform gradually and adding more functionality to it.

Due to my overall workload, I have not had a chance to look much after the Python packages in OpenEmbedded.

I decided to visit this years Chaos Communication Camp near Berlin for a day or two.

This year’s GUADEC was very successful for me.

So we are finally selling hardware now.

While I was in Taipei, I revamped the EFL recipes in OpenEmbedded.

We finally switched off the dryer on saturday and almost all of my stuff has been placed into the office again.

Much like the first week, the 2nd week in Taipei really rushed by and I’m finding myself being back in Frankfurt for until the 15th of July, when I’m leaving to Birmingham to attend GUADEC.

The first week in Taipei has passend and it’s really good to be here.

Yesterday night I arrived back in Frankfurt/Main.

Writing this on my way to the LinuxTag 2007 that takes place in Berlin this year.

After Alice and T-Com seemingly wanted to play ping-pong with me — repeatedly sending me to each other — I took the matter into my own hands and solved the problem.

I’m writing this post from within the new office room in our new appartement.

Since last friday we’re sleeping in the new apartment.

Recently, goxboxlive from the Xanadux project sent me screenshots unavailable that show OpenMoko running on the HTC Universal.

The serious phase of apartment moving has started last week and I’m right within.

I just finished a four-week contract that involved development with Qt4.

Today I’ve submitted the obligatory copies of my commercially published dissertation to the Doctorate Office for Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University.

OpenMoko is a mentoring organization for the Google Sommer of Code 2007.

During most of the long easter weekend, 3/4 of the OpenMoko coreteam met in Frankfurt/Main at my place.

Just returned from a tiny OpenMoko p0-Developer meeting in Braunschweig.

I’m on overload.

Two weeks before the first phase-1 devices are to be shipped, things start to fall into place.