Sunday, November 30, 2008

Donations...

A couple of people asked for a donate button of some sort. I hesitate because of the sudden complexity of things when money is involved. Here is what I think would be best:

  • Donate your time and skills if you can rather than money.
  • If you cannot do so, please consider sponsoring something we could directly use: Such as a USB serial cable (about $45 for parts from Sparkfun), or perhaps upgrading the Slicehost slice we're borrowing from pumpkin ($60 per month, though it would only be useful if we could get enough money for at least six months), used or broken devices for testing, etc. Or something like a pizza for one of our contributors on a late night hacking binge (we will distribute food donations on a round-robin basis =P)
  • My paypal address is my gmail e-mail address (planetbeing). If you do make a donation, please specify exactly what it is for. A gigantic slush fund is something that I wish to avoid.
For the record, contrary to what was published by some media sources, the iphonelinux group is not associated with the group commonly known as the "iPhone Dev Team". I'm a member of the Dev Team, and other members sometimes lends assistance or advice, but this is an entirely separate project. The Dev Team does not accept any donations whereas this project tentatively will.

25 comments:

dranfi said...

That was a useful distinction between iphonelinux and the Dev Team. I'll see what I can do for the project.

alekline said...

Maybe we can help iphonelinux project with mirroring or something else, not just money

alekline said...

And please, give us an address that we can use to ship some kind of cables, phones or whatever can help the project.

planetbeing said...

@alekline: please contact me privately for addresses. Thanks!

Ben said...

If you need a free sponsored VPS server directly from a exelent provider, then please contact me.

I will gladly provide you with the resources you need on a VPS to keep this amazing project up and running :)

Please send an email to contact@norted.com if you have an interest :)

Drunken Hobo Webcomic Review said...

I may have a USB serial cable around here that I was using for some other projects. I'm more than willing to give a look around.

Also, is this project going to lead to a full linux variant on the touch/iphone, or is it going to level off at just being the kernel and a few extra bits running. As I stated in another comment, I'd be very interested in seeing a GUI on top of this ala XFCE.

Wow, I must seem like an XFCE fanboy. I think it's mostly because whenever I run linux on lower power systems and need a GUI, it's basically my go-to guy.

Filipp said...

hey about the touch screen not working..
i was flying in a virgin america flight, and each tv monitor runs linux, where the user gets to choose what they want do, (watch tv, even play doom.) When my monitor crashed, they rebooted, and sure ebough it was running linux. maybe you could find the driver for that somehow? Being that the monitors are touch screen.

Just a thought.

Keep up the great work!

Drunken Hobo Webcomic Review said...

Unfortunately, it isn't that simple. Odds are that the airplane touchscreens were cheap resistive touchscreens. Basically a couple of layers of material that, when they connect, send some rough surface contact data. The iPod/phone, on the other hand, use capacitive touch screens are require their own controller type.

Of course, even if they both used the same, you'd still need to know how to interpret data from the touchscreen controller. None of this is terribly fun or simple.

Elias Sorensen said...

Nice project you've started here, really looking forward to see more videos from it, and hopefully try it in a later build :)

I got a dedicated server in Washington D.C. that runs on a 100/100mbit connection, so if you like a host or mirror for the project, please contact me at elias.sorensen [a-t-] gmail [do-t--] com.

:)

Elias Sorensen said...

Oh, and I'm a graphic artist and freelance programmer, so I would LOVE to help you doing some graphics for the project.

I will contact you privately to talk more about that :)

A beautiful device needs beautiful graphics :)

Mac OS Ken Podcast said...

@planetbeing... would you be able to talk for 5 to 10 minutes about what you are doing for my podcast Mac OS Ken: Day 6? If so... please email me ( day6@macosken.com ). Thanks.

Sim said...

As far as compatible touch screen drivers- i would seriously consider looking at the touch screen driver for the G1 (aka dream, aka android phone). The hardware is even capable of multitouch, so i wreckon it must be really close if not identical to the what the iphone has.

my $.02

Shirk said...

Great job!
Your work shows what can be accomplished when linux meets creative developers ;)

I would love to donate some hardware but to be honest I'm rather short on money..
But I'm a experienced C programmer (yes, even kernel-land).
So if you need another helping hand just drop me a line.
[shirk a-t bitspinn d-o-t org].

Samushka said...

graphic artist here, willing to help out.

planetbeing said...

I appreciate the ideas on the drivers, guys. But even near exact hardware are going to have at least some details different that take hours of debugging to figure out (if you don't have actual documentation, like we do not). Unfortunately, suggesting that two touchscreens would have the same driver just because they're both touchscreens, or even capacitive touchscreens, makes about as much sense as using a ATI driver for your NVIDIA graphics card. Hey, they're both 3D accelerator cards, right?

To the graphics artists: We will need a boot menu design that accommodates an additional icon (a Linux icon) in addition to the existing two in a bit. We're still looking for an overall logo to the project.

The format, as always, is just to submit your ideas. I'll put them up somewhere and the most popular one wins. I think that's probably the fairest way we can do things.

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ftrotter said...

you specifically mentioned that cash donations should have a target. Is there a roadmap of some kind that we can target? Perhaps with bounties?

-FT

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