Archive for February, 2006

Graphics Contest

law February 23rd, 2006

We are searching for a new logo, bootsplash-images and backgrounds. So we decided to start a graphics contest.

We split the Contest into 3 main parts:

Logo The logo should stay in combination with the zaurus and open-source. We would like to use that logo on website. 224 colors version would be nice bonus for usage as kernel booting logo.

Bootsplash Two different orientations of the logo should be created: a landscape one and a portait one. SVG templates are available from the following links:

landscape portrait

Background

It would be nice if the same background could be used on all devices, so different sizes are needed. Sending one size is allowed - other sizes can be created after contest.

Needed sizes:

  • 640×640 for VGA devices
  • 640×480 for VGA landscape
  • 480×640 for VGA portait
  • 240×320 for QVGA portrait

320×240 for QVGA landscape will be nice but not required

Mail your images to openzaurus-users mailing list .

Rules

Graphics should stay in combination with the Zaurus and OpenSource. Allowed formats: SVG, XCF or PNG. Graphics should be provided on any OSI approved license (GPL/LGPL/BSD are one of them).

Deadline: 1st April 2006.

Call For Donations For Poodle Hardware

Marcin Juszkiewicz February 16th, 2006

Two weeks ago developer of Watapon ROM decided to stop its development. It was the only one distribution made specially for poodle (SL-5600) machines.

In OpenZaurus team we are unable to help poodle users due to lack of hardware (no device) and/or lack of developer with that Zaurus model. We release images which are expected to work because it does not take much time but sooner or later it could finish in abadonland…

Week ago few poodle users started thread on OESF forum about getting poodle machine for OpenZaurus team. Anyone can help - if you are user (or developer) then you can help with testing images, you can donate cash (or machine)…

When we get poodle we first work on getting current 2.4 based images works as they should, then device will be used to help with 2.6 kernel support (currently it should have SD/MMC, CF, USB working (and probably more) with small tweaks if not out-of-box).