Re: [Announce] Intel and Nokia announce open source telephony project (oFono)

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From: Jeffrey Ratcliffe
Date: Monday, May 11, 2009 - 12:18 pm

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From: Aki Niemi <aki.niemi@nokia.com>
Date: 2009/5/11
Subject: [Announce] Intel and Nokia announce open source telephony
project (oFono)
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Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>


Intel and Nokia are pleased to jointly announce the oFono project
(http://ofono.org), an open source project for developing an open source
telephony solution.

oFono.org is a place to bring developers together around designing an
infrastructure for building mobile telephony (GSM/UMTS) applications.
oFono.org is licensed under GPLv2, and it includes a high-level D-Bus
API for use by telephony applications of any license.  oFono.org also
includes a low-level plug-in API for integrating with Open Source as
well as third party telephony stacks, cellular modems and storage
back-ends.  The plug-in API functionality is modeled on public
standards, in particular 3GPP TS 27.007 "AT command set for User
Equipment (UE)."

Source code is available on http://ofono.org/downloads and a high-level
architecture diagram is available on http://ofono.org/documentation.  To
join the mailing list, go to http://lists.ofono.org/listinfo/ofono.

Nokia and Intel will jointly maintain the oFono project.  We'd like to
invite all developers to join the oFono.org effort and community.

Marcel Holtmann <holtmann@linux.intel.com>, Intel Open Source Technology
Center
Aki Niemi <aki.niemi@nokia.com>, Nokia Devices R&D, Maemo Software


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From: David Reyes Samblas Martinez
Date: Monday, May 11, 2009 - 12:34 pm

Ok another api framework for smartphones,this time provided by big
guys, but which hardware?, I haven't see any reference on that in the
web site. any clue any one?




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From: tammaro "pamdirac" palombo
Date: Monday, May 11, 2009 - 1:24 pm

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an android without the htc? :)

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From: Nicola Mfb
Date: Monday, May 11, 2009 - 2:16 pm

Mumble mumble... may they join/fund FSO guys? :)))

      Nicola

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From: Carsten Haitzler
Date: Monday, May 11, 2009 - 2:57 pm

somehow... i just don't see that happening.

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From: David Reyes Samblas Martinez
Date: Monday, May 11, 2009 - 3:55 pm

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From: Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Date: Monday, May 11, 2009 - 4:08 pm

Yeah,

that's pretty sad. They should have picked FSO or even Pyneo or at least 
something that is already in development for quite a while. This way it looks 
like NIH syndrome.

Until now, trying to co-work with these guys typically went like "yeah, you 
can take our APIs, if you want. No, we don't want to look at yours, thanks.". 

In contrast to that, FSO rather embraces application developer's requests.




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From: Levy
Date: Monday, May 11, 2009 - 5:15 pm

Hi,

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 20:08, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer

Someone is trying to make they use Pyneo on #ofone channel right now.

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From: Lorn Potter
Date: Monday, May 11, 2009 - 6:07 pm

I seriously doubt Nokia would ever have python on a Symbian device, especially on S40.


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From: max
Date: Monday, May 11, 2009 - 7:43 pm

Actually, Nokia is quite pro-Python. Check out these links for more info.

http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/pythonfors60/
http://wiki.opensource.nokia.com/projects/PyS60_extensions

Btw, an S60 device runs on the Symbian OS. An S40 device does not.

( Btw, Nokia is pro-Ruby as well :-) . However, Ruby on Symbian is not
as mature as Py60 is. Read more at:
http://developer.symbian.com/main/community/open_source_projects/ruby/index.jsp
)

- Ajith Hussain,
Senior Software Engineer, Devices R&D, Nokia

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From: Lorn Potter
Date: Monday, May 11, 2009 - 7:55 pm

Let me rephrase that then. I doubt Nokia will ever ship python on a Symbian device.
Just because someone started an open source project within Nokia, doesn't mean it will ship in a



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From: max
Date: Monday, May 11, 2009 - 9:39 pm

I am not qualified to comment on that but here's hoping... :-)

 - Ajith Hussain,
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From: max
Date: Monday, May 11, 2009 - 10:04 pm

Actually, the S60 All-in-one SDKs seems to support Python development
(officially). So I don't feel Py60 should be seen just as another open
source project started by someone within Nokia.

(Source: http://www.forum.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/ec866fab-4b76-49f6-b5a5-af0631419e9c/S...)

Coming back to the topic, personally, I feel the FSO interface should
have been adopted. D-Bus based APIs? OFono seems to be an alternate
standard to what FSO already established. While choice is good when it
comes to implementations, too much "choice" in interfaces/standards,
fragments the community, and much productivity is lost in duplicating
stuff.

- Ajith Hussain,
Senior Software Engineer, Devices R&D, Nokia

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From: Lorn Potter
Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 1:54 am

Except we all know that python is not the direction Nokia is currently  
taking.

Quite possibly OFono was started development before FSO. and besides,  
OFono doesn't use python.



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From: max
Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 2:29 am

I am a bit confused. I was under the impression that OFono was the
name give to the D-Bus interface that was being standardised. I didn't
realize it referred to the implementation.

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From: Lorn Potter
Date: Monday, May 11, 2009 - 5:56 pm

kettle calling the pot black...

This is partly due to the fact that they planned the roadmap forward in years, not weeks or months,
not to mention the waterfall development style they are probably using.


You tell me, is Nokia opening up and really embracing open source?
http://qt.gitorious.org/qt


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From: Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 2:30 am

(Private note: I have this strange sense of Deja Vu :-), although it's been a 
long time since we had this argument :-)


What sounds like an asset is a liability thanks to fragmentation. I'd rather 

Which doesn't make me more confident in their ability to shape the platform 
APIs _together_ with the application developers as opposed to merely impose it 

That's Qt and they have inherited this style from Trolltech.

The way Nokia has developed Maemo it was always about take it or leave it the 
way it is. 

Open source does not necessarily mean an open development process, you should 
know that better than me :)






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From: Levy
Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 10:39 am

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 06:30, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer

Looks like they want a framework for UI guys create UIs for Maemo!

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From: Lorn Potter
Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 11:19 pm

True. But Nokia is paranoid about patents and copyrights and licenses and such things. Which might

I think that most open source projects have a rather closed development process.


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From: Pander
Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 11:38 pm

Just some simplified thoughts (my 2 euro cents):

Invitation to major companies: give lead developers of a certain open
source technology you want to adopt an air plane ticket to your office
and sit down for an afternoon. Those guys (and girls) can also work
under a contract with/for you or you could assign some developers of
your own to work with them. Just do lots of operational risk management
to guarantee a successful outcome (=proper project management).

I know it sounds a bit daring, because major companies cannot afford to
have a zillion phones produced without properly working software to go
with it. From the other side, complete automated test suits integrated
in release management, like Android is using, is lacking in FSO/SHR.
such a tighter procedure could be used to control the risks in releases


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From: Sudharshan S
Date: Monday, May 11, 2009 - 10:18 pm

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer

'These *type* of guys' or 'these guys'? Just wondering, was FSO in
touch with them. Anyways, I am sure that the momentum of FSO wont die
down because of this. :)

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From: Carsten Haitzler
Date: Monday, May 11, 2009 - 2:56 pm

On Mon, 11 May 2009 22:24:43 +0200 "tammaro \"pamdirac\" palombo"
<pammoko@gmail.com> said:

android isn't linux. it doesn't count. (imho). it's a diferent os of its own
that happens to use a linux kernel (and a totally different userspace where some


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From: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 3:39 am

Maybe we'll see an Intel SoC real soon now...

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From: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 3:38 am

Maybe we'll see an Intel SoC real soon now...

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