OpenExpo 2007
Just returned to Frankfurt after visiting the OpenExpo 2007 in Zurich/Oerlikon. Benjamin ‘C7′ Hagen organized a small but fine OpenMoko booth (next our friendly GNOME colleagues) and we had two very good days with lots of interested people stopping by. My talk on Thursday also attracted quite some people (as you can see in the photo). To silence all the “it’s cool, but doesn’t work as a phone” nay-sayers, I demonstrated a phone call during the talk 
On to some bad news… Benjamin got his backpack stolen, including a Laptop and his Neo 1973… *sigh* I will make sure he gets one from the next batch of GTA01.
OpenExpo was very organized and agile. Although it’s just the little brother of the Topsoft business fair — which occupied four times the space — I dare to say, it looked as most of the visitors (me included) found OpenExpo much more exciting than Topsoft 
Leaving to Portugal tomorrow for a two weeks vacation — after that, I’m going to visit the 2nd annual OpenEmbedded developers conference in Berlin. Then back to Taipei for a bit.
Markus Fischer wrote:
Thanks again for your great help bringing my Neo uptodate! And yes I can confirm, the Neo is a phone and is able to make and receive phone calls. But what really makes a difference, it has a shell…
Keep the good work going!
Posted on 22-Sep-07 at 8:41 pm | Permalink
paulo wrote:
i welcome you to Portugal! then just let me know what do you think about my country
Posted on 23-Sep-07 at 11:09 pm | Permalink
Tiago wrote:
In Portugal…great… hope you brought a few Neo1973 so I can buy them directly from you!
I Exchange I will give you a Lisbon tour and the Belem pastry are on me =)
Enjoy the country!
Posted on 25-Sep-07 at 5:56 am | Permalink
rhY wrote:
Hey, I want a camera and screen on the same side of my next openmoko, and realtime h.264 and speex instantly with anyone on my contact list who has an openmoko, over wifi where possible. Let’s replace the industry with video phones that are free where free wifi is available, the phone function just has to be a back up if you have a paid SIM. It would be nice if we could steal the pidgin code so people could use whatever medium they are interested in to hook up p2p style: AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, MySpace, email address and IRC room, etc….
Posted on 02-Oct-07 at 8:08 am | Permalink