Paroli & Illume on OM2009
As you propably know, the Openmoko 2009 distribution (for Openmoko Freerunner phone) is under development and some testing releases have already been made. I myself consider it a very good start (it actually works as a phone quite well!) and I’d really like to see more people contributing there so I thought I’d point you to some of the most important resources to start testing, running and improving both OM2009 and Paroli, the phone application.
General information
What’s Paroli? How does it look like? See http://www.paroli-project.org/
Installing
To install OM2009 and Paroli, have a look at the instructions at http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om2009#Installing
Using
To learn how to use Paroli, see http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Paroli#FAQ
Some tips for OM2009 you can find at http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om2009#Using_OM2009
Contributing
Now we come to the interesting part. There’s something for everyone to do and there are people working hard to enable you to help. Here’s a post from Mirko Lindner, the main developer of Paroli:
Hey there,
A lot has happened over the past couple of months, but most important in my mind has been getting OM2009 out into the hands of the community. When we set the very limited goals of OM2009 we had two goals in mind:
1. Give those members of the community who only wanted a daily phone, a distro they could use
2. Introduce technology that would allow the community to come together and improve on these basicsCommunity interaction, open development and user driven decision making are at the core of Om2009.
Going forward this will be an effort with the community for the community. The help and support I have gotten from the community over the past couple of days and weeks has been remarkable and I can see things starting to move and slowly coming together. We need more of this!
I invite you to join the effort to make om2009 with paroli the best Om-labeled distribution for the Freerunner.
How can you help?
Test the distro, let us know about bugs you find, or even fix them and send us patches.
Tell us about your experiences using om2009, what should we change, where can we improve?
Paroli has come a long way but it still needs a lot of love and optimizing, so if you are into python or efl, check out the code from git.paroli.org, join #paroli on irc and let’s get crackin’. There is lots of things to do, opimd needs to be integrated and improved, the UI needs polishing, overall speed can be increased etc etc
More into Chat and email? Feel like writing a jabber/irc/xxx or email client that really fits the screen? Or do you know of one? Let’s hear about it.
See a list of proposals on: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om_2009_get_active and http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Paroli-issues
This device has a lot of potential and we are so close to reaching the far corners, the kernel is in good shape, the framework is doing great and telephony apps such as paroli or the shr suite are steadily improving.
So, get your Freerunner in shape again. Flash it with a nice current distro and let it do what it was meant to do :)
Let’s make Om2009 a community product, something all of us can be proud of and say “we did this”.
Regards,
/Mirko
Community driven new theme for Paroli
To give Paroli an extra boost I suggest that we create an alternative theme for Paroli. The one Mirko & OM are writing will work fine but it really wouldn’t hurt to see some new themes. I’m sure there are professional designers and user experts around who could use some of the skills they have and this way also help OM: by making more people interested in using & developing Paroli (at least I first check the ‘Screenshots’ page of a new F/LOSS app I find and often judge based on what I see :)
I don’t know exactly how doable it is. As far as I know, it’s possible to create themes for Paroli. I don’t know what parts can be changed or how to do it but I believe that if people are interested, it’ll all come out nicely: I’m sure someone here knows the good old pen&paper thing (or GIMP or Inkscape :) to design a GUI for Paroli. We add some user experience skills to give it the usability touch. I’m also sure there are people here who know enough about themes and python to implement the template. Maybe we even have people around who can write us a theme switcher?
Creating a theme must not be that hard if it’s well supported in Paroli so I really believe we can do it – together. If you know anything about design, themes or Paroli please share it with us in this thread to encourage others.
Let’s start the discussion here. As soon as something comes up, let’s add it here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Paroli-themes – let your imagination flow and create mockups to be shared!
Enjoy your freedom!!
r
Where to go?
If you are still reading this and didn’t find a suitable site for you to find things to do, let me point you to the hub to start participating to OM2009 and Paroli:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om_2009_get_active
Also the Openmoko Community mailing list is an excellent place to discuss this – just start your post subject with [OM2009] or [Paroli] – it makes it easier for readers. Also the Paroli Irc-channel ( #paroli at freenode.org) is the place to go if you have any questions about Paroli and #openmoko for general discussion.
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