Monthly meet of India Linux User Group - Hyderabad Chapter
Date: 28 Oct 2007
Started: 14:30 IST
Venue: Auditorium, Dept of Astronomy, Osmania University

This month's meet was at a new place and a new schedule
The venue had been moved to the Auditorium of the Dept. of Astronomy, Osmania
University (opposite Arts College, beside Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics)
and the time also had been changed to the last Sunday afternoon 14:00



First Talk:

Introduction to OpenMoko
By Shakthi Kannan

The speaker started off with an intro to the device and the accessories that
came with it - Neo 1973
he also showed the openmoko.org site and its wiki
Then we went on to the presentation
he mentioned that recommended flavor for working on openmoko is debian or debian
based like ubuntu
we went on to installing it:
the two ways...
online - add openembedded.org to the apt repository list and install
openembedded-seesntials and its dependencies using aptget
offline - wget the source and then make setup
building the applications:
openmoko can be run in qemu... but then qemu had issues in dev version so we
SSHed into the phone and forward the GUI to the PC
we tried building a simple "Hello World" app for the Neo
He explained about the basic of building the application and Makefile
Then, the speaker introduced the Autotools
we discussed about ipk packaging and bitbake for the openmoko and building using
make

we even played a Linkin park track off the phone! got a glimpse of its clear
sound and video
also tried to check out some of the videos of the phone on youtube but then the
site was blocked on the proxy!!!
also a quick look on the online docs on what can be done with the openmoko on
the phone
current one even has a terminal to play around with
He also mentioned that the phone uses matchbox lightweight window manager and so
some features similar to iPhone are also possible to built into it and its very
customizable

The next version of Neo and Openmoko should have a better hardware and lot more
features.

There are feeds of Neo and OpenMoko on http://scap.linuxtogo.org



Second talk (The last 15 mins):
K C Ramakrishna from rKnowsys Technologies also gave an insight on how to get
involved with free-software projects
He also briefed about the advantage it has over the other regular oppurtunities

Regards

http://www.cheedhu.name






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