2007 is ending. It was very good year for me. I am now married man, waiting for daughter birth. Have own company, working as contractor for one of biggest companies in OpenEmbedded world.
January
- Signed contract with OpenedHand — starting from February.
- Became one of 50 selected developers for OpenMoko Phase0 program. Each of us got offer to get Neo1973 GTA01 for free. First it was GTA01Bv3 with battery problem, then GTA01Bv4.
- I ended working for Conecto. Finally end of PHP programming.
- There was information that Sharp ended production of Zaurus palmtops. During next months they were still manufacturing them.
February
- FOSDEM — my first one. It was very nice event and good occasion to meet all those hackers from miscellaneous projects. I spoke with more people that was able to remember.
- Got Nokia 770 tablet donated. Interesting device but underpowered. It also became unsupported few months later.
- My first code entered Linux kernel. It was LCD backlight driver for Frontpath ProGear tablet.
- OpenMoko project released RoadMap.
March
- Vernier LabQuest got released. I was one of members of OpenedHand development team working on Poky for this device.
- Pingwinaria 2007 — I was there with one talk about OpenEmbedded. Then decided that it is time to buy laptop to be able to read mail, do some hacking etc.
- My Neo1973 GTA01Bv3 arrived. Added was Debug board, 128MB MicroSD card, pen/stylus and few other things.
- Three years of using OpenEmbedded.
April
- OpenZaurus project halted — all work is now done for Ångström distribution.
- My oldest Zaurus got SD/MMC driver for 2.6 kernel. Thanks goes to Thomas Kunze. I hope that he will update it to current kernels one day.
- Moved blog to current domain.
- Bought Dell D400 laptop. It is nice and fast machine — I use it as 32bit build machine.
- Nokia 770 which I got two months before became unsupported device.
- Bought 3rdparty Nokia charger to be able to charge Neo1973 battery.
May
- I got Neo1973 GTA01Bv4. As this was “developer update” only battery was added. I also got
gllinin rootfs :) - Bought Linksys NSLU2 — it was working as NFS server for my build machines.
- Played a bit with Vista on my friend 17” laptop. It is not a system for me.
June
- After reading about trademark wars started by handhelds.org I decided to end using their services. It also means that I am no longer OPIE developer.
- With few friends took StarWars marathon. We were exhausted after five episodes so “Return Of The Jedi” was not displayed.
- Due to big amount of visits from Google search I wrote small information about how to buy Neo1973 phone.
July
- GUADEC — I was going there with thinking “what I would do at GNOME conference” but it was also occasion to meet OpenedHand gang and people from other projects. I still remember how badly I lost on first day… and I did it twice ;(
August
- I married my beloved Ania — it was big event with lot of people from our families, our friends…
- Poky Linux 3.0 released — after release we pushed all upgrades which came to our minds and it was still working.
- Got Alix.1c board which PC Engines company donated to OpenEmbedded project. It replaces NSLU2 as NFS server. It still lack case and other services are still not moved to it.
September
- Ania and I were on Zakynthos island (Greece) on honeymoon — nice place if you want to rest.
- I wrote post about my testing of OpenMoko 2007.2 system. It was most popular post ever.
- My blog got new theme.
October
- OEDEM 2007 took place. Nice event, lot of OpenEmbedded developers.
- Maemo started developer program for Nokia N810 tablet. Due to limitations I was unable to take part of it. ARGHH!
November
- Upgraded my desktop system a bit — new CPU and cooler.
- OpenMoko released Gllin with script which starts it using OABI libraries on EABI system.
- Thanks to work done by Dmitry Baryshkov 2.6.23 kernel works nice on Tosa. It pushed new life into this device.
December
- OpenedHand X-mas took place — lot of fun and occasion to meet new guys from OH. Also played with few interesting devices.
- Due to lack of ARMv6 hardware I was working on getting current QEmu working. Now I am using it to test my recent Poky changes.
- Due to flu (which I catch during OH X-mas) we had to spend Christmas at home. It was our first x-mas at home without family.