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origin : http://linux.com/news/embedded-mobile/mids/29263-openmoko-layoffs-lead-to-new-open-hardware-venture

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OpenMoko 以开源方式开发移动电话方面的努力告一段落后,由此引发的新一轮研发计
算机潜能的浪潮——目标定位在向开源爱好者以及类似开发者开放日常事物方面。
气 (Qi Hardware http://www.qi-hardware.com) 公司的诞生由此开始。
“气” 是能让产品的附加值转售者和爱好者将现有的硬件设备区分开并将它们的个性
化以适用于不同市场或者个人用途的开源开发平台,Stephen Mosher,OpenMoko 的前任市
场副总裁这样解释到。另外,OpenMoko 尤其擅长恰当地处理开放设备以及识别适用于特殊
市场的最具开发潜能的设备。
“我们的目标是开放消费者的电气设备,”Mosher 这样说到,他和 5 位被 OpenMoko 解
雇的员工以及两位志愿者在 San Francisco 共同成立了公司。“Intel 每天关注的是怎样在
设备上增加处理器,Microsoft 每天关注怎样增加操作系统,而我们则关注怎样开放设备,
如果我们能够成功,这将会是一个很大的市场。”
“气” 硬件是开放版权的硬件。  “气” 公司的目标是向自由软件开发者提供质量稳定
的硬件,这样他们能够开发出终端用户的应用程序。可以将这些与我们曾经见证过的在
内核不稳定并且消费者没有做好准备的时候所作出的努力做一个对比。
“气” 的内核方法有两个目标。一个稳定的内核可以在这上写应用程序并使用户分享
“气” 的产品,而我们的上游内核可以让我们的硬件成为硬件的可维护部分,这样可以长
期受益于最新版本的软件升级和补丁修复。
稳定的内核和驱动器最初来自于半导体公司支持 linux 的质量。
理想情况下从一开始“气” 公司就加入芯片厂商的参考平台并解决上行流的要求
硬件的开放性并不能解决不稳定的问题,软件的开发总是受制于硬件的不断变化。“气”
公司在选择硬件设计时考虑稳定性并且已经大量生产向自由软件开放并且受保护的硬件。
在一些情况下,硬件设计已经在某些 Linux 内核版本上运行,但是内核已经过时,很难改
变其代码,而去适应其它的需求。 “气”硬件让这一问题变得简单。 “气”公司的主要承诺
就是向自由软件开发者提供高质量稳定工作的硬件。有了这一坚实基础,软件开发者可以将
重点放在终端用户的应用程序上。
Mosher 相信“气” 在处理现有稳定的硬件设备方面会更快,更便宜并且更容易实现。
另外,不同于 OpenMoko 的是,“气”不是从智能手机这样让人畏惧的目标开始,“气”仅
仅是开放设备并提供低等级的代码,也就是稳定的工作内核和设备驱动器,其余开发者负
责另外的部分。
“气”的工作流程从寻找已经量化生产的硬件开始。“气”公司与全亚洲的制造商合作,
他们或是可以开放硬件,或是可以合作开发开源的硬件版本。 “气”公司将硬件工程方面的
重心放在记录这些设计,以开放版权的方式发布它们并且建立合作式的社区来改进这些设
计。这些工程的努力将使用诸如 KiCAD 和 HeeksCAD 等自由软件工具,并且以开放版权的方
式发布完整的电子设计。
未来的硬件是开放版权的时代。在专利系统下,终端用户受制于产品的生命周期。在专
利世界中存在预定的生命周期:EOL (End of Life)。 届时没有软件支持,也没有硬件路标。
而开放版权的硬件没有 EOL。设计总是会进行改进和扩展,并且,由于硬件运行的是 GPL 的
软件,终端用户可以自由地自我支持或者相互支持。 硬件的路标是开放的。  因为硬件是开放
版权的,工程师只要有灵感就可以进行新的设计,但是只有愿意共享这些设计的人才能享
受这种优势。 “气” 的发展理念很简单:循序渐进,不断提高。 这确保了软件开发者的努力。
“气”公司着重于硬件生产过程中的商业交易:厂商关系,NDA,资金,物流,销售和
市场。  软件方面“气”公司着重于需要改进的软件栈的最底层。 社区越多地参与到“气”对
低层软件栈以上的开发,就越能促进“气”往低层深入,将主要精力集中在半导体,引导
程序和内核(Linux)上。“气”公司正以硬件供应商的身份奖励和推广那些大有希望的项
目。QI 公司使用自由软件,如 Trac 问题跟踪系统、 Git 的版本控制 和 Mailman 邮件列表
等,使这一过程达到最大可能性的开放。
Linux International 公司是一个推动 Linux 发展的计算机卖家的非赢利组织,Jon
“Maddog” Hall(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maddog) 是它的执行主管,他说电子设
备的硬件和软件所有权方面的问题影响着每个市场,当病毒、bug 或者内核改变或者制造支
持的丢失使可用的产品失效的时候产生了很多不必要的损失。 然而,为了修复一个损坏的设
备,必须开放所有的软件和硬件组件,而这些部分通常由不同厂家提供从而使得问题很难
解决。
开放源码的手机可以为“气”打开另一个作出修改的机会以使得小的手机公司可以成
为他们的用户。
“我认为 气 将引导现有事物去到一个崭新而且更有趣的道路上,而且没有其前辈们
所碰到的限制,”Hall 说,“公司可以雇用员工对代码作一些修改(以满足特殊的商用用
途)并使它成为对他们将支付多少和这对他们到底价值多少的商业决定做个强烈的对比。”

I fount this: http://www.hakank.org/taiji/ascii.txt
really cool

1 移植wikipedia 到 Ben NonaNote 上
2 网络设备管理终端。
3 记事本。音视频播放器
4 信息终端(WIFI)
5 电子地图
详细信息:http://www.qi-hardware.com/2009/08/27/qi-projects-launch/

Days are getting ever more exciting here at Qi. A few days ago we received the first 20 units of the Ben NanoNote. These units are sample units that were intended for our sign-off on the mechanical design. As you can imagine there were some minor cosmetic tweaks that we had to make after this first run. The color of the latch wasn’t exactly what we wanted and some of the labeling on the keys wasn’t perfectly centered, but it is a great feeling to see our vision coming to live.

Some of the units are going to certification, others to review and a good part to launch qi’s “projects” effort.

As we have seen in the past, software visions of a company and its community are not always the same or even close. At Qi we believe that the community is far more capable of handling and coordinating a product’s software effort. And therefore we want to put the decision which projects to follow up for discussion.

To launch the software projects we will, together with the community, search and select certain projects to receive hardware funding in the form of Ben NanoNotes, either full sponsorship or special prices to project developers.

The software projects can come from a whole range of areas and should drive the device to its limits. The final decision about which projects are to be funded will be taken on the developer mailinglist (sign up here).

To get the discussion started we have assembled a list of potential projects and areas, if you yourself know a project you want to nominate or want to add a whole new idea please join the discussion on the list (sign up here). For now we will start with the list below.

Initial idea list:

OpenWrt
OpenWrt serves as our build environment and our distribution system. Mirko V., Marek, Xiangfu, Lars and Florian and others have made considerable progress and are on a good path to providing a reliable software basis. Qi Hardware believes that a small and individualized Software Image with an up-to-date kernel is the best basis for any end-user software on an embedded device.

Wikipedia
As a first SW use case we envision an offline wikipedia client. The idea is to carry as much knowledge and articles with you on a small and handy device. One possible basis could be the openzim[1] implementation. A variety of clients already exists. We are looking for a resource-friendly and easy-to-use client. Wikitravel may also be a great project to start as an offline version of wikitravel that you can take with you to places that don’t have connectivity may be an interesting application.

sysadmin apps
Due to the usb-boot capabilities of the Ben NanoNote it is the ideal device for sys-admin tasks. Imagine you connect the NanoNote to your server/router/XXX, it automatically boots and displays you the options and settings for the device at hand.

Mobile data/Mobile media
As the NanoNote is so small and handy it is the perfect travel companion, carrying music and short clips. We were thinking in terms of a media player for video and audio. Maybe a picture viewer could also be added to be able to show your favourite pictures (or lolcats[2]).

Messaging Services
At some point in the near future the NanoNote will, via SDIO or a tiny, external device, get RF capabilities. Wouldn’t it be nice to have IM on the NanoNote? Tweet or send message through identi.ca ?

GPS apps
Location is everything. Many usefull and fun applications can be built around GPS, think location, navigation and direction :) . Currently, the Nanonote could only support GPS using Sdio, but selecting software applications and starting the porting is a project we would support

[1] http://openzim.org/Main_Page
[2] http://icanhascheezburger.com/

http://projects.qi-hardware.com 已经可以工作了。

并且我们把所有的代码(GIT)都移到这个服务器上了。

如果大家有想法想创建自己的项目。只要在上面注册就可以了。

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这个是样品的正面图片:

device_front

这是样品的一些信息 Wrote By Yi:

1. We have gotten the first set of mechanical parts for Ben NanoNote [1][2].
2. We found some problems, mostly cosmetic issues. The factory is making the second set based on our fix list [3][4].
3. First 20 working samples, with the first mechanical parts, final boards (with Giantplus LCD [5], Samsung K9GAG08U0M 2GB NAND [6]), will be send to Shanghai on Wednesday from Shenzhen. They should arrive on Thursday. The 2GB NAND flash on these 20 samples are not tested at all. Among them, 2 samples will be used for CE and FCC certification test in Nanjing, 1 goes to Xiangfu in Beijing, 5 go to Steve Mosher in San Francisco, USA, 12 go to Mirko Lindner, Berlin, Germany.
4. The next 20 samples, with fixed mechanical parts, will be ready in 2 weeks. Read from and write to 2GB NAND flash on these 20 samples will be tested by the factory. But seeking for the bad blocks on NAND needs to be done by us. It would be great if someone start working on this.
Yi

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