Momentum is something really strange! It’s hardly predictable and you have to run to catch it before it goes away — but when it’s there, things are progressing like there’s no tomorrow

There’s a whole lot of momentum present in some of the projects I care about:

OpenEmbedded

1. OpenEmbedded will abandon monotone and move to git as its primary SCM. This will increase the wide-spread adoption of OE and attract new people. We will have more (shortlived) branches and merges will be easier. We will also revamp the commit policies a bit to introduce more stability to both the stable and the unstable branches.
2. Setting up the non-profit organization (german registered association e.V.) is progressing and we will soon have our legal entity.
3. Some couraged people are revamping our website into something that’s more accurate, structured, (and pretty). Good for both OE-novices and experts.

OpenEZX

1. OpenEZX developers started to push for mainline inclusion. This will greatly increase the visibility of our project.
2. OpenEZX developers are working on a 2nd stage bootloader that overwrites the MOTO kernel, but leaves the rest of the flash file system untouched — by this we can boot both an OpenEZX kernel from SD as well as the original system (with its kernel on SD), which makes testing a relief.
3. We found security holes in the MOTOMAGX kernel, which may enable us to put our own code on these systems.
4. Motorola has released new devices, apparantly running EZX. More devices for the platform!
5. Openmoko’s Framework and Zhone phone UI is going to provide a slick looking — working — featurephone userland for OpenEZX — the first releases are just a couple of days away. It’s now important we get kernel work finished, so we can release something that is a real alternative to the closed source MOTO system on EZX devices.

Openmoko

1. Openmoko successfully went into mass production of the Neo FreeRunner (GTA02) device. Finally, people will have the 2nd generation of the first truly open source hardware platform in their hands.
2. The Qtopia/Enlightenment based next generation software update is progressing nicely. I expect a release in the next couple of weeks.
3. The new dbus-centric Openmoko framework initiative as well as the Zhone bread-and-butter application will see a release within the next 48 hours.

Exciting times for Linux on mobile platforms, n’est-ce pas?