fonosfera

We have also setup a development mailing list, so independent developers can talk to each other as well as with our FON firmware guys. This list is public, you can subscribe right now! For those using IRC you can also find us on Freenode: #fonosfera

In case you don’t know about it yet, we also have several pages on the wiki about the La Fonera 2.0 as well as a special sub-forum for discussions.

Now let me introduce our development team for the La Fonera 2.0:

Name: Iurgi Arginzoniz
Position: Firmware Team Manager
Background: Telecommunications engineer, always working on WiFi companies (airbites and fon)
Tasks: Various, from small developments to management of the firmware team
Distribution: Ubuntu
Desktop environment: Gnome
Based in: Madrid, Spain (from Basque Country)

Name: Pablo Martín Medrano
Position: Software Engineer
Background: B.Sc. Computer Science, Panda Software Linux Developer
Tasks: FONUCS, weird daemons and other mindbreaking stuff
Distribution: Debian etch-and-a-half
Desktop environment: openbox + xterm + screen + vim + alpine
Based in: Madrid, Spain

Name: Javier Monteagudo
Position: Software Engineer
Background: M.Sc. Computer Science
Tasks: Automated testing
Distribution: Ubuntu
Desktop environment: Gnome + emacs
Based in: Madrid, Spain

Name: John Crispin
Position: Firmware Hacker
Background: OpenWrt developer
Tasks: Making Firmware
Distribution: Debian Lenny
Desktop environment: awesome
Computer: Thinkpad T61 (there is no other)
Based in: Hamburg, Germany

Name: Rex Tsai
Position: Technical manager of FON Taiwan team
Background: FLOSS evangelist and developer
Tasks: Technology development and operation support in Taiwan and Asia.
Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux Sid.
Desktop: Gnome
Based in: Taipei, Taiwan

Name: Imre Kaloz
Position: Firmware artist
Background: OpenWrt kernel related developments
Tasks: Take any router they throw at me and make it OpenWrt (hence FON) compatible
Distribution: Linux (Ubuntu 8.10)
Desktop: XFCE
Based in: Budapest, Hungary

Name: Felix Fietkau
Position: Firmware nurse
Background: OpenWrt
Tasks: fix and do everything the rest of the people on the Earth can’t
Distribution: Mac OS X
Desktop environment: Mac OS X (text mode;)
Based in: Berlin, Germany

Let me take a chance to introduce myself as well. I will cheerfully manage the fonosfera (blog, mailing list, wiki etc):

Name: Inouk Bourgon
Position: Communities’ voice
Background: B.A. (and FON Wiki)
Tasks: Get everyone together so we can make the La Fonera of our dreams!
Distribution: Ubuntu
Desktop environment: Chairs, desks, coworkers & Foneras
Based in: Madrid, Spain

That’s it for today, more community tools to come… Stay tuned!