Hi,
sorry for my late answer. I was on holiday.
we are very interested in adopting openzim wherever possible. A nice handheld device or phone would be a great showcase and of.
The ZimReader actually was once compiled on a openmoko device and it worked.
How can we help?
Tommi
On Mittwoch, 22. Juli 2009 17:49:42 you wrote:
Hi Tommi,
Sorry for using your tntnet address for an OpenZim related mail :)
I am Mirko and part of the Qi Hardware Team.
This Monday we launched our company [1] and announced our first product "Ben NanoNote", a fully opened multifunction device [3].
As you can see on the product page the Ben NanoNote does not have a build-in RF chip. We therefore think it would be ideal for a project such as OpenZim and as a device for an offline version of Wikipedia.
We are very interested to hear what you thoughts are. We have a mailing list dedicated for development [3].
We see an OpenZim client as a possibility for one of the standard applications shipping in our image, but would need guidance. If you think this would be doable and something you would be interested in, let me know.
Regards, /Mirko
[1] http://linux.com/news/embedded-mobile/mids/29263-openmoko-layoffs-lead-to-n ew-open-hardware-venture [2] http://www.qi-hardware.com/products/ben-nanonote/ [3] http://lists.qi-hardware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/developer
Hi,
great to hear from you.
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Tommi Mäkitalo tommi@tntnet.org wrote:
Hi,
sorry for my late answer. I was on holiday.
No problem at all. I am not pushing the limit these days either :)
we are very interested in adopting openzim wherever possible. A nice handheld device or phone would be a great showcase and of.
Sound great :)
The ZimReader actually was once compiled on a openmoko device and it worked.
How can we help?
We are planning to use OWrt to build our images. Currently we are at an early stage but hope to increase the number of people that are working towards a reliable and userland-application ready image.
I just got a few prototypes sent, which will go to different developers and if you find the project interesting, one would go to you :)
I think we should do something like the following:
- get the ZimReader into the OWrt image for the Freerunner to get the basics working
- meanwhile the image on the NanoNote should move forward
- once this is completed we can work directly on the NanoNote
I cc'ed Mirko Voigt from OWrt as he is the person to talk to when it comes to OWrt integration and such.
A few question to help me understand the process:
What software requirements does the ZimReader have? (languages, libs, tools etc)
Where are you based? ( for potential meeting in person )
What information do you need or how can we help you?
Regards,
/mirko
Tommi
On Mittwoch, 22. Juli 2009 17:49:42 you wrote:
Hi Tommi,
Sorry for using your tntnet address for an OpenZim related mail :)
I am Mirko and part of the Qi Hardware Team.
This Monday we launched our company [1] and announced our first product "Ben NanoNote", a fully opened multifunction device [3].
As you can see on the product page the Ben NanoNote does not have a build-in RF chip. We therefore think it would be ideal for a project such as OpenZim and as a device for an offline version of Wikipedia.
We are very interested to hear what you thoughts are. We have a mailing list dedicated for development [3].
We see an OpenZim client as a possibility for one of the standard applications shipping in our image, but would need guidance. If you think this would be doable and something you would be interested in, let me
know.
Regards, /Mirko
[1]
http://linux.com/news/embedded-mobile/mids/29263-openmoko-layoffs-lead-to-n
ew-open-hardware-venture [2] http://www.qi-hardware.com/products/ben-nanonote/ [3] http://lists.qi-hardware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/developer
Hi Mirko,
I propose to you to subscribe to dev-l <at> openzim.org - see http://openzim.org/Mailinglist. This is a quite low-volume mailing list.
Am Montag, 3. August 2009 14:08:31 schrieb Mirko Lindner:
I think we should do something like the following:
- get the ZimReader into the OWrt image for the Freerunner to get the
basics working
have you seen that there is a package of the zimlib and zimreader for openmoko? https://intern.openzim.org/pipermail/dev-l/2009-July/000122.html http://www.gut-informierte-kreise.de/openmoko/openzim/
Maybe this gives you at least some fixes to be able to build your binary for the Freerunner. As far as Marc wrote yesterday on dev-l his patches were integrated into openZIM trunk, so compiling should work now on openmoko.
What is missing are packages - and I think that's exactly your point ;-) I hope that way the diverse efforts on openmoko can work hand-in-hand.
A few question to help me understand the process:
What software requirements does the ZimReader have? (languages, libs, tools etc)
As far as I know the zimlib has only libbz2 as dependancy, cxxtools should have been removed already.
The zimreader needs cxxtools and tntnet, tntnet tries to include gnutls or openssl and database backends (via tntdb), but those things can be disabled using configure.
Where are you based? ( for potential meeting in person )
* Zürich (CH, Kiwix) * Frankfurt/Main (D, tntnet) * San Francisco (US, Wikimedia Foundation) * Israel (Wikimedia Israel) * Lörrach (D, near Basel, Troll)
The next developers meeting will take place this autumn, most likely on November 5th - see our poll: http://www.doodle.com/xaf4tzpuwk2xf59h
I would be happy if you like to subscribe: http://openzim.org/Developer_Meetings/2009-2
Greets,
Manuel
Sorry:
Am Mittwoch, 5. August 2009 09:05:56 schrieb Manuel Schneider:
The next developers meeting will take place this autumn, most likely on November 5th - see our poll: http://www.doodle.com/xaf4tzpuwk2xf59h
most likely on November 14th, I mean.
Hi Manuel,
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Manuel Schneider < manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch> wrote:
Hi Mirko,
I propose to you to subscribe to dev-l <at> openzim.org - see http://openzim.org/Mailinglist. This is a quite low-volume mailing list.
So done :)
Am Montag, 3. August 2009 14:08:31 schrieb Mirko Lindner:
I think we should do something like the following:
- get the ZimReader into the OWrt image for the Freerunner to get the
basics working
have you seen that there is a package of the zimlib and zimreader for openmoko? https://intern.openzim.org/pipermail/dev-l/2009-July/000122.html http://www.gut-informierte-kreise.de/openmoko/openzim/
Maybe this gives you at least some fixes to be able to build your binary for the Freerunner. As far as Marc wrote yesterday on dev-l his patches were integrated into openZIM trunk, so compiling should work now on openmoko.
What is missing are packages - and I think that's exactly your point ;-) I hope that way the diverse efforts on openmoko can work hand-in-hand.
Nice, I will ask Angus (distro maintainer for OM2009) if he can get us something here :)
A few question to help me understand the process:
What software requirements does the ZimReader have? (languages, libs,
tools
etc)
As far as I know the zimlib has only libbz2 as dependancy, cxxtools should have been removed already.
The zimreader needs cxxtools and tntnet, tntnet tries to include gnutls or openssl and database backends (via tntdb), but those things can be disabled using configure.
Where are you based? ( for potential meeting in person )
- Zürich (CH, Kiwix)
- Frankfurt/Main (D, tntnet)
- San Francisco (US, Wikimedia Foundation)
- Israel (Wikimedia Israel)
- Lörrach (D, near Basel, Troll)
The next developers meeting will take place this autumn, most likely on November 5th - see our poll: http://www.doodle.com/xaf4tzpuwk2xf59h
I would be happy if you like to subscribe: http://openzim.org/Developer_Meetings/2009-2
Developers meeting sounds great and it isn't too far either :) Just pick the date that is best for you guys and I will plan around it :)
Mirko Voigt, and others, made great progress on our kernel and image over the past couple of days so we are getting closer to a working user space and thus to toying on the device. Anyone in your team that would like to support the process on the device itself?
Regards,
/mirko