Rockbox

In the eternal chase for new targets to port Rockbox to, the turn seems to have come to the tiny Meizu M6 player. This 55 gram thing is slightly smaller than a credit card (width and height at least) and it boasts a 2.4″ LCD, 4GB flash and is powered by a Samsung SA58700 (ARM940T core [...]

SRF (synskadades riksförbund - the Swedish Association of the Visually Impaired) is a Swedish organization that recently expressed concerns about open source (in Swedish), since as they say “open source in itself is no guarantee for accessibility to ... [More] disabled persons” (my translation). The argument came up because Mats Odell, a minister in the Swedish government, expressed [...] [Less]

For some reason I haven’t previously properly pushed this fact here: The Rockbox port for the Olympus M:Robe 100 is soon about to enter the fine room of all the other existing Rockbox ports. It seems most stuff is working in this port now, and with bootloader and daily zips on the download mirrors there’s only [...]

To get good results from Google’s Summer of Code, we need a fair amount of volunteering mentors and we need a good set of interesting projects to make students get attracted. If your interest is in the Rockbox project, add your project ideas or add yourself as mentor on this wiki page. If your interest is in [...]

As I was involved in gsoc 2007 within the Rockbox project, I ventilated the idea on the libcurl mailing list just yesterday that perhaps this is a good year for the cURL project to apply to become a mentoring organization to be able to host students doing gsoc work? If so, this is no point unless [...]

Yes, as I hinted earlier Google is indeed going to do their very much appreciated program once again this year. Google’s summer of code accepts mentoring organizations to apply starting March 3rd 2008. Now let’s get our imaginations and get some even better project ideas added to our gsoc 2008 wiki page!

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There is reason to suspect that there’s an upcoming announcement from Google about their Summer of Code 2008, so for the Rockbox project it might be just about time to start thinking about what particular projects we’d like to see done this time! Of course it is also time to look back on how we performed [...]

Maurus Cuelenaere has been doing some great progress recently and is now capable of running custom code on the Creative Zen Vision:M target. The work is now in full progress to make the Rockbox bootloader actually run on it. The LCD seems to work and buttons are in the works… If you haven’t joined before, now’s a [...]

Given the debate going on about where we should possibly have the “universal devcon 2008″, where lots of euro people have expressed their not wanting to go to the US for economy reasons and/or for privacy reasons, and a fair amount of US people have expressed concerns about the air fairs for flying to Europe, [...]