Like last year some of the projects here are present at LinuxTag fair in Berlin/Germany. The projects GPE, GPE Phone Edition and OpenEmbedded will be at the "Mobile and Embedded" booth at the LinuxTag fair and conference. It takes place at Berlin Expo Center from from May 28th to May 31st, 2008. The projects share the booth 112 (kindly sponsored by Tarent) in hall 7 with several other related projects.
You can expect to see a lot of funky devices running interesting mobile software there as well at the chance to meet some of the developers. We would be happy to meet you at LinuxTag!

The LinuxTag fair is one of the biggest Open Source related events in Europe. It is meant to attract all sorts of people interested and involved in Open Source and is a great opportunity for users, developers and business people to get in touch with each other.

The LiPS forum just announced a release of additional standards that complete the LiPS 1.0 specifications. The most interesting part of the new release are the telephony API standards which are the key focus of LiPS.
The archive containg the full standard release can be found here.

LiPS is an industry consortium which defines standards for mobile phones based on Linux and related Open Source solutions. In the current members list we find some quite well known companies in the Open Source landscape.

Finally something positive to report!
Florian just uploaded installable images of an Angstrom based distribution with GPE Phone Edition:

http://linuxtogo.org/~florian/index.php?path=gpepe%2Ffic-gta01/

And here is a screen shot:

http://scap.linuxtogo.org/files/a477b5cf7d0f4b795e6cccfaf550eaf5.png

Cool!
We were even able to make our first phone calls with it ;)
Very nice.

Pleas try it and give feedback!

The LiPS Forum just released their first set of standards to the public. This includes the LiPS Reference Model, Address Book and Voice Call backends and user interface service specifications which are based on GTK 2.x. The release of additional parts for the version 1.0 standard is planned for this year.

Read the full announcement at the website of the LiPS Forum here.

This is a quite important step for our GPE Phone Edition project which works on an Open Source implementation of these standards and of course for the development of Linux based phones in general.

The shared project booth at Linuxtag was a very good experience again. It looks like Gnome, GPE, G(PE)² and Tinymail form a quite good group to cover a huge scale of different devices and interests. Like every time at LinuxTag we had a nice mixture of visitors from different areas at the booth including users asking for device support, people with nice ideas for extending our applications and interested professionals from companies.

Many thanks to the LinuxTag team, the Gnome people, Nils, Ole and everyone else who was involved in supporting our presence at this event.

Here we have some random images from the event (click to see a larger version):

The projects GPE, Tinymail and GPE Phone Edition will be present with a booth at the LinuxTag fair and conference. It takes place at Berlin Expo Center from from May 30 to June 2, 2007. We share the booth 30 in hall 12 with the Gnome people.
You can expect to see a lot of funky devices running interesting mobile software there as well at the chance to meet some of the developers. We would be happy to meet you at LinuxTag!

The GNOME Project just announced the new GNOME Mobile and Embedded Initiative (GMAE)
which introduces a new focus on GNOME and related software for mobile devices. It is meant to be a central instance to improve communication and provide coordination for projects, contributors and companies who are involved into mobile device projects.

You can read more about it in the official press release.

There is a new GPE Phone Edition VMWare image available from the projects file release section.

It now includes the email application and and several updates to libraries and the phoneserver application.
The relase notes and changes can be found here.

If you identify bugs in the applications shipped with the image you can file bug reports in the bugtracker.

Enjoy!