Developers

OpenZaurus team April 11th, 2005

Contact

For supporting our users we have:

Support for developers:

Main point of contact is Marcin ‘Hrw’ Juszkiewicz.

Donations

Many people ask how to donate to OpenZaurus project. We decided to not keep one central account for it because arrangements are very complicated when you have a fluctuating group like the contributors to OpenZaurus. Not only do contributors come and go but they also contribute to varing degrees. And as soon as it comes to money, friendly relationships are endangered. In the end it’s not worth the hassle to split the money up.

Who does what is pretty much open - it’s listed on the ChangeLogs, it’s listed in the ipkgs (MAINTAINER), on the READMEs and you see it in forums, mailing lists, IRC. So, just donate to the people you think which are doing things that affect you.

If you want to donate for project then please contact Marcin ‘Hrw’ Juszkiewicz.

Active developers

Marcin ‘Hrw’ Juszkiewicz
OpenZaurus 3.5.4+ Release Manager
Collie (SL-5500/5000) maintainer
“upgrades” feed maintainer since 3.5.2 release.
One of OpenEmbedded core team members
OPIE developer - author of many hires fixes
Homepage
Donations: Moneybookers as donations[]hrw.one.pl or paypal.

Moneybookers

Paypal
Michael ‘Mickey’ Lauer
One of the founders of OpenEmbedded.
OpenZaurus Release Manager since the 3.3.x series to 3.5.3 release
One of the core developers of BitBake, OpenEmbedded, and Opie.
He is presenting the various projects to the public, i.e. via the regularly appearing OOO Newsletter and is active in web forums and email lists.
Homepage
Donations: Paypal

Paypal

Richard ‘RP’ Purdie
Maintainer of Zaurus support in Linux 2.6 Kernel.
Coordinate the 2.6 kernel development for the Zaurii in OE.
Works on enabling openzaurus support the 2.6 kernels under both opie/gpe along with other random OZ testing, bugfixing and development.
See the clamshell kernel status page for more information.
Donations: Moneybookers (rpurdie[at]rpsys.net) or Paypal.

Moneybookers

Paypal
Matthias ‘CoreDump’ Hentges
Maintainer of “Hentges.ROM” which is his version of OpenZaurus
Author of many polishing changes
Homepage
Donations: directly
Graeme ‘XorA’ Gregory
Gnome and other desktop applications support/test
Mplayer maintainer
Homepage
Patrick ‘_law_’ Steiner
GPE developer working on Zaurus integration
Homepage

Inactive developers

Chris ‘Kergoth’ Larson
Founder of the OpenZaurus and OpenEmbedded projects.
Hacks on every aspect of the system, from kernel to userspace to applications.
Donations: Paypal
Adam ‘noda’ Hooper
Webmaster of first OpenZaurus website - coded most of the old site.
Aman ‘TheMasterMind1′ Gupta
Linux enthusiast and buildroot/web/kernel hacker who got involved with OZ back when collie was the only zaurus around.
Christian ‘Onyx4′ Lambert
Developer involved with OZ back when collie was the only zaurus around.
Jordan ‘numatrix’ Wiens
Developer involved with OZ back when collie was the only zaurus around.

5 Responses to “Developers”

  1. # Kevinon 18 Jun 2005 at 13:13

    OZ is great, wish that there was a stable release for the SL-5500 and I would ditch the Sharp provided ROM in a heartbeat.

    Thanks for your hard work.
    Kevin

  2. # David Webbon 05 Jul 2005 at 02:13

    Devs,
    I want to take the time to thank you ALL for a wonderful/successful embedded os. OpenZaurus has made a huge impact on my life and career. I love the OS, it’s smoothe, stable, and polished. I’d like to give a shout out to Mickey Lauer, who is extremely active in the forums! You couldn’t ask for a better guy. I look forward to each update and release. You guys hit the nail on the head. Good luck and I look forward to each new release. Linux all the way!

    Sincerely,
    David Webb

  3. # Rick Hodginon 08 Aug 2005 at 01:40

    I would like to begin development work on the Zaurus, specifically the 7×0 series. I am having trouble getting everything setup to begin. Is there some way I can get an image of a partition with everything I would need to have running on a basic i386 box? Or, is someone willing to help me go through it all. The page on “Required Software” is very helpful and informative, but I can’t find all of the programs and am not even sure what I’m looking for in some instances.

    Help would be appreciated. A partition image would be appreciated more. I am willing to pay for shipping and the CDR.

    Please contact me with any questions.

  4. # Rick C. Hodginon 11 Aug 2005 at 03:13

    I would like to help out on the OZ project. I need some help getting a developmental machine setup and ready to go. Is anyone willing to help me? This is the third post I’ve left on this website, and none of them have seemed to make it past the moderation phase.

    Please contact me if you have questions:
    317-510-2011 - Work
    317-788-6358 - Home

    Thank you! :)

  5. # Bob Igoon 06 Jun 2006 at 15:48

    If we get a vendor interested in having their hardware supported in OZ, who should we have them send it to?

    Specifically, I think I may be able to entice SparkLAN to send someone their 802.11g CF card, for which they already have source-level kernel 2.4.x support and a dedicated Linux team. However, they’ve never tried to build against kernel 2.6.x, nor have they worked with OZ. As far as I can tell, this looks like it has a good chance to become the first 802.11g card that works in OZ.