[Gllug] UKUUG: 'OpenMoko (GNU/Linux on the mobile phone)' - Wed 9th 18:30 - Gower St.

[Philip Hands]

Hi All,

I thought people would be interested to know that there's a free talk about OpenMoko taking place on Wednesday evening (details attached)

For those that are not aware, OpenMoko is a Free Software mobile phone platform that runs on the Neo1973 phone (among others), and is Free Software all the way down to the metal -- so, if you're fed up with mobile phones with crap menus, and useless features that waste your time, and make you angry, you can now have a phone that is at least something that you can fix yourself when it annoys you ;-)

  http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page

I'm looking forward to tweaking the SMS features so that I can discard the pointless "Welcome to $COUNTRY ..." texts without even making the phone beep.

Cheers, Phil.

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UKUUG 'free' Evening talk 

'OpenMoko (GNU/Linux on the mobile phone)' - speaker: Ole Tange

Wednesday 9th April, 2008 - Talk starts at: 6:30 p.m. (ends approx. 8:30 p.m.)

Venue: ?Cruciform Lecture theatre 2, 
UCL, Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

There is no need to book a place - just turn up.

see UKUUG web site for information:

http://www.ukuug.org/events/openmoko/

Abstract

OpenMoko is the GNU/Linux distribution that runs on the free phone Neo 
Freerunner from FIC. It is completely Free Software. Being able to
completely control a cell phone gives new posibillities that people
only dreamed of. 

Have you ever had a mobile phone where you have been
annoyed by some of the functionality and thought: "If only I had the
source code I could have fixed this annoying thing"? Then you are not
alone. The phone Neo Freerunner from FIC runs a completely free
operating system. Because it is free it is possible to try out completely
new ideas - even ideas that the phone companies make no money from.

The presentation will be about the possibilities and how you can take
part in this revolution.

About the speaker:

Ole Tange has worked as Hostmaster for .dk, as a security consultant,
as network admin, as site reliablility engineer, and is now working as
developer. 

He has worked with UNIX since 1991, GNU/Linux since 1992,
and in 1996 he deleted his Microsoft Windows partition. 

He has done lots of presentations on security, Free Software, and IT political
issues (such as software patents) - both for the general public and to
polticians. He is best know as the person behind Parallel, the
patented webshop and wordprocessor and Remindmail.

He sees a completely Free phone as the most disrupting that has happened since 
the introduction of GNU/Linux.

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