As far as I know, there isn’t any simple or single way to communicate with the people who use GPS devices with Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) or the developers of these programs. Maybe now it’s the time to start one when all kinds of positioning tools and services are becoming more and more popular.
(C) Marble
My experience is that the community is widely spread: some get their FLOSS-GPS updates from Openstreetmap lists, some from Openmoko mailing lists. Some communicate directly with the developers, possible some hang around in the irc channels and forums.
I think there are many projects that would benefit from some common discussion. A common list would also help the users to contribute to the projects: translations, patches, testing and so on. Users could share their experiences, tips and hints. Developers could share their ‘best practices’. And you would have only one single mailing list and you’d stay updated about the FLOSS-GPS -world instead of needing to join to 10-15 different forums and lists. Share, communicate, centralize.
Here are some projects where we’d able to find people that could be interested:
- Rana – no mailing list
- Openstreetmap – lists focused on maps and mapping
- Tangogps – no mailing list
- Marble – some KDE mailing list covers this?
- JOSM (of Openstreetmap) – has a developer mailing list
- Gosmore
- GpsMid
- Traveling Salesman – no mailing list
- OpenGTS – has a project forum
- Navit – mailing list and forum
- Some more listed at opensourceGIS or here or here
So does anyone know if there is already a mailing list that gathers gps-freaks and map/navigation software developers and could use some more traffic or is anyone willing to start & host a list or does anyone know who could be willing to host this? Maybe Openstreetmap or FSF(E)?
> Navit – no mailing list?
For info, Navit has mailing lists and forums, e.g. navit-users ml at :
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/navit-users
@zilux: Fixed, thanks for the information!
Simply start a google group and get people on there. Should be a good enough solution as it also allows you to share pages, notes and documents within the google group interface. People can use it as a forum or mailinglist and with the wiki like documents you can also have some knowledge sharing aside.
Good luck!
You forgot gvSIG Mobile. It shares lists with gvSIG.
@Bram: I’ve asked at osgeo discuss mailing list if osgeo would be able to host a list, see http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2008-September/004317.html
They also have wiki available and I think the list would fit their mission: “a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data.” See osgeo.org
@jcarrasco: The list is no comprehensive. I’m sure there are tens of projects I’ve not listed here but I’m sure you get the point..
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Now the list has been created, you’re all welcome to join!
See http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss-gps and http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/invitation-for-all-open-source-gps-software-developers-and-users-to-join-foss-gps-mailing-list/
You’ve forgot to mention gpsd (http://gpsd.berlios.de/) mailing lists
I can host the list at lists.gnumonks.org, just let me know once you have decided to start your new list. It’s a regular mailman installation used for a number of other (both private and public) lists, so you it’s a maintained installation.
@Mateusz and @Harald: the list is now created, you’re welcome to join! See http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/invitation-for-all-open-source-gps-software-developers-and-users-to-join-foss-gps-mailing-list/
hello,
i installed the openmoko on qemu ,i followed the all instruction mentioned in the website “http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Automatic_emulation_in_Ubuntu” .
my installation went well and but its emulation is too slow, mean when i open any application it takes more than 1 min to open and second one there is no quit option on application screen also. third one is scrolling also not there so cant go down to application menu also.
i do have 512 ram 1.8 Ghz processor
i build an application also but stuck to above problem because for installation i do require a terminal on the screen, which is not possible due to scrolling part .
please suggest me, any idea???
thank in advance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
regards,
prashant p sathe