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As a Google Summer of Code student way back in 2008 for Openmoko, this brought a lot of memories :).

I was looking for a new phone right before the OpenMoko was supposed to ship, and so I pointedly switched carriers to AT&T just because they were rumored to be the carrier where it was easiest to get an OpenMoko working. I bought a Motorola Atrix to use "until I can get an OpenMoko". Sadly, I never did get my hands on one of them. I don't even remember why now. Either they never shipped in volume at all, or the price was never within reach, or something. Anyway, I've been waiting a long time for a truly open smart-phone... and I'm still waiting. sigh

Maybe one day.

Were you working for Sean and Harold?

Mickey was my mentor and didn't get a chance to directly work with Sean and Harold. My project was to build APIs in Vala to control the hardware (volume, screen brightness, etc) through DBus. Was a great learning experience but could see the ominous signs towards the end of my summer.

Got a device to hack on and the fact that I could SSH into a phone and have a shell to goof around was exciting back then. Android was just announced IIRC and getting it work on Freerunner was so much fun.

And you did a really good job! :-)

Haha! Thanks Mickey! Was a fun summer.

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