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I've been in Taipei, Taiwan from Oct 11th through Oct 28th to visit the OpenMoko office there and get to know the team working in Taipei. This being my first visit to Asia I also wanted to experience the culture.

I can say I managed doing both and want to thank everyone at the office who made me feel very much welcome and at home. I really enjoyed working with the people there and I hope I can repeat that visit sometime in the future.

I wont go into detail about the restructuring partly because Mickey has already mentioned most of the changes and partly because I want to wait how things turn out when the dust settles before I start bitching around. ;-)

I'll try to have some more time for OpenEZX in the future. Until recently I didn't own any EZX device, but fortunately this has changed now. I bought a Motorola A1200 in Taipei and I also have a Motorazr2 V8 now. :-)

Granted, the last one is based on the MotoMAGX platform and will take some more effort until we're able to flash our own stuff onto it, but porting the drivers to a recent kernel should be much easier because it's version 2.6 to begin with.

I've already started hacking on the A1200, basically just getting my build system up and running and verifying that I am able to build and boot my own kernel via boot_usb. Next I'll try to integrate the patches that are floating around to fix the framebuffer.

In a couple hours my plane is going to leave from Hanover to Birmingham and I will be attending GUADEC during July 15th through 19th.

I hope to talk with many interesting people (known and unknown), finally meet some of the o-hand guys face to face and have a great time. :-)

My flight back is at July 22nd so I'll have a little time to visit the UK with my girlfriend and finally watch a [musical][1] I've been wanting to watch for some time now. [1]: http://www.avenueqthemusical.co.uk/

So I finally decided to join the blogging community. I have been pondering this decision for some time now but my recent activity in the OpenEZX project and the prospect of hacking OpenMoko on my own Neo1973 in two weeks (Yes, I'm one of the lucky phase 0 devs :-) really made that decision easy.

If you don't know what the Neo1973 and OpenMoko are you should check out http://www.openmoko.com/ now. In short OpenMoko is a framework for cell phones and the Neo1973 is the first device that is supported by OpenMoko. The thing that sets them apart is that their platform is open and they are actually encouraging people to improve their product which is just fantastic.

I'm sick of companies and their closed Linux devices that try to restrict you to some predefinied set of use cases and I am really looking forward to the things emerging from this great project.

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This entry was supposed to be submitted using flog and vim but flog instead decided to crash taking the blog with it. So this post is powered by browsing through strings /dev/mapper/vgelara-lvslash |grep -50 fantastic |less instead. You wont believe how many fortunes have the word fantastic in them.