Hey,

After yet another long period of not blogging here comes one of these rare occasions.

Several things I want to run through :)

I think it is official now that Angus will not continue to pursue the path of a separate distribution but put his time and effort towards a stable branch in SHR. I am not sure yet what that will mean for paroli but I hope not too many bad things :)

In general I can say that the project is still up and running and that we make progress, in small steps but progress. Just the other day did vmx and mdt complete the merge of the tacheles branch and master. This brings a few changes in the background and in essence means a lot of work as most of the services will have to be adapted. However, I am very happy about this as it was time that the core of paroli got cleaned and restructured to make things more flexible and usable.

I will try to get on to this and I have heard that more and more people work on small things surrounding paroli. Please do not be put off by me not responding instantly or taking a while, if you think it is too long, just pinch me again. I want to give more developers access to the git itself as I see me as the bottleneck right now. So let me know if you wanna join and do things with us :)

The merging will also allow paroli to more easily run on top of pyneo[1] without loosing support for fso.

As for myself I am working a lot on Qi Hardware[2], mainly spreading the word, getting software and hardware developers interested and supporting them with what they need. So if you wanna help out there let me know :) One of the great parts of my job is to distribute “early access hardware” to new projects in our projects effort [3]. So yesterday I received 13 samples. 2 went to OpenWrt[4] right away as they are building the “official” image for the Ben NanoNote.

I was terribly excited to finally hold a “Ben” in my hands and I wanted to share a few pictures [4] with you. I hope you like them :)

I will visit a few places and conferences over the next couple of weeks/months. So I might be coming to your area :) I will post when and where I’ll be and always love small meetings in pubs or likewise to discuss Qi Hardware, Paroli, the NanoNote or whatever else comes our way :)

Have a good one,

/mirko

[1] http://www.pyneo.org

[2] http://www.qi-hardware.com

[3] http://www.qi-hardware.com/2009/08/27/qi-projects-launch/

[4]

Ben NanoNote Top

Ben NanoNote opened

NanoNote compared to Freerunner