Mozilla Mobile Community
In all likelihood, most have read this terrific post by Schrep re: Mozilla’s Mobile strategy. I have the fortune of working close to Doug Turner and Chris Hofmann’s office, and on a few random projects with chofmann. To give you an idea of how long and hard they have worked on Mozilla mobile stuff, I thought I would take a picture of the device below that was sitting on Chofmann’s desk. This is one of the early devices that they used to test Minimo… I love the detachable keyboard! I think it is an iPaq from 1983 or something. Was it Crocket or Tubbs who used this device one time in an episode of Miami Vice.
Anyway, congrats on all the hard work that Doug and Chris have put into the mobile work. And, welcome to the new members of the Mozilla community who will be helping to lead our mobile strategy: Christian Sejersen and Brad Lassey. In his post, Schrep calls for people interested in contributing to our mobile strategy to ping him directly. Please do it. He means it and it will be an exciting project to work on.
NB: picture taken with my completely locked-down, Apple/AT&T iPhone.
So, would this be part of the message at the Mozilla Project Day ? A judicious blog about this on planet.foss.in will get some folks interested to contribute to this given a roadmap
Will Doug Turner be working on the “Mobile Firefox” project?
Re: Foss.IN, it will be part of the project day if someone proposes a session where they can work on it. As far as I know, no one has submitted an abstract to work on this stuff, and it might be too early in the process. Good question though! If there is a developer who wants to submit something for Foss.IN related to Mozilla Mobile, I suggest having that person contact Schrep to see where to start.
Re: Doug T, as far as I know, Doug will be working on the Mobile Firefox. But, I have to be honest, it’s not my decision to make. Doug would know best. Feel free to contact him.