totalueberwachung

Last weekend, from May 22nd to May 24th the freesmartphone.org and SHR communities had their first meeting, the FSOSHRUDCON. The place to hold that meeting was the Linuxhotel near Essen (more about that later).

The meeting itself was awesome! It was great to meet old friends again and finally get to know all the people that I just knew from IRC. We had some interesting talks, the crazy french guys even managed to set up a streaming server (with support from Bearstech) and I've freed about 11 phones of buzzing. And if that wasn't enough we had many inspiring talks and discussions and SHR is finally in the OE git repo.

I think everybody left the conference with renewed motivation.

I want to devote some words to the Linuxhotel as they have been a tremendous help in getting this whole event realized. The Linuxhotel is a place where seminars about open source such as Linux schooling, LPI certification, programming languages and many more take place. With this they are making money in order to finance their business.

The really cool thing however is the way they are giving back to the open source community. If you are an open source organization the Linuxhotel will offer you all their infrastructure at minimal cost. Breakfast was included, Coffee, tea and soft drinks for the whole day as well. A closet with lots of useful hardware was free for everyone to use (which basically saved live streaming since we were in need of a firewire cable. :-) You really had the impression that they are living the open source idea. I'm definitely going back there!

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It didn't look too good for a while, but the replacement Freerunners are in the mail now. They should arrive in time unless the customs officer is having a really bad week (let's hope not :-). The tracking information currently says "Verzögerung bei der Verzollung" which means "Delayed at customs" so the coming week might prove interesting. :-)

I'm optimistic though, especially since I've already reworked 15 devices without problems.

In related news I'm thinking about getting myself a Weller WD 1000M soldering station. I've seen (and tried) this station in action at a friend's and I was pretty impressed. From standby to operational temperature in 3 seconds, auto standby when the pencil is inserted back into the rest and a short finger to tip distance make this station really pleasant to work with.

I have now sort of streamlined the process if you want to mail me your Freerunner in order to get the buzz fixed. Please go to http://projects.totalueberwachung.de/buzz-mailin/ and follow the instructions there.

I went through all my mail and everyone who asked me directly about mailing me their Freerunner should have been issued a ticket. If I forgot anyone please accept my apology and create your ticket yourself as outlined in http://projects.totalueberwachung.de/buzz-mailin/.

It's been in the works for some time now, time to announce it here as well. :-)

From May 1st until May 3rd there will be a buzz fix party in Braunschweig. So if you have a Freerunner that is suffering from GSM buzz during calls (and more or less all devices sold until now are susceptible to buzz) then come visit us on May 1st, 2nd or 3rd.

More information here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/BuzzFixParty#Braunschweig

Please add yourself to the list if you are attending.

After driving to Beriln on August 1st to pick up my brother we finally got to Finowfurt today. The camp location is really nice. We already have power, network will hopefully follow in a few days. In the mean time I'm online through GPRS which is pretty usable for irc and web browsing if you have patience (I don't), but sucks for almost anything else (especially remote shells).