Grassroots Open Mobile Web

Grassroots Open Mobile WebOpen Web Vancouver 2008

Roland Tanglao [email protected], raincitystudios.com

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Grassroots Mobile Web - Open Web Vancouver 08 - Roland Tanglao

Who am I?

14000+ flickr photos via mobile

disclaimer - free phones from Nokia Blogger Relations


My mobile web itch?• My Own Personal Photo and Video ShoZu

And Other Mobile Fun Hacks!

• What’s Yours?


Which Grassroots Mobile Device?


And the winner is...


Wait a minute! Define your terms!


Grassroots“Maker friendly”, no large team required, no fees

no keys, no certificates, free tools that work on all polatorms


Open

Text

photo by pulpmojo on flickr

Turtles all the way down!

everything, open, everything documented, all source code all hardware designs (IDEALLY)


Mobile

photo by Kris Krug

powerconnectivity, connectivity, connectivity!


Web

photo by josefstuefer on flickrweb nativeREST


Grassroots Mobile Open Web

not really yes bolted on ‘telco-web’

the most outreach, the most awesome, Carbide.c++ - traditional Windows only (hacks for linux and Mac OS X)WRT - also closed sourcePython (hampered by security module) but awesomePAMP - Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla, MediaWiki, needs 128MB RAM which is E90 and N95-8GB> $400 tigerdirect.ca



very good yesyes but not HW

‘desktop-web’

maemo.org$under 300 at tigerdirect



excellentno, easy battery hack

yes! (including

HW)

‘widget-web’

$180http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/BOM and schematics availablePerl, Python, Ruby run on USB image ported from Internet Tablet



excellent yesyes!

(including HW)

‘REST component

-web’

$299 for base unit, modules < $100USB, parallel I/Owifi, lcd screen, camera, accelerometer, touch screen, von hippel module, ev-do module?osgi java components, python demoed


So Why The Bug, again?


I have a dream...

photo by cfishy on flickropen mobile web, yes we can!


Linux is Subversive

photo by dsearls on flickr, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/

2.0/deed.en

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en





Open is Subversive

photo by kino-eye on flickr, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en





Web is Pervasive


Open Mobile Web is Subversive and

Pervasive


Web becomes small mobile pieces loosely

joined

photo by MrGluSniffer on flickr, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en


Where HW and SW pieces are “maker-

friendly”!


Give it away


Sell it


Mass produce your “own device”

photo by imsickofmaps on flickr


This seems to be the Bug Labs Dream

http://www.unionsquareventures.com/2008/04/this_is_nuts.html

“Bug is so much more than a modern day Heathkit. Bug’s goal is to create an architecture that allow one to build, and integrate it into a service.”




Bug Labs may fail

image by taichi_uk on flickr, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en

java infrastructure and components may not be the “sofware ICs” we are looking for

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en





But an open hackable, “our own devices”

mobile web is worth striving for!


So Let’s Get Started!

photo by Plüschelefant on flickr

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Grassroots Open Mobile Web