OHSWWelcome

Nikolaus Schaller, Golden Delicious ComputersOpenPhoenux Hard & Software Workshop

Garching, 30. 11. 2013

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• new name:

OpenPhoenux Hard&Software Workshop

• 5th year in a row! Something we can be proud of!

• we have a new logo!

• more international guests

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OHSW news

• we have 5 years

• some people complained about „Open Hardware“ and expected only „Open Source Hardware“ - we accept everything

• but topics are coming mainly from the OpenPhoenux (and the grandparent OpenMoko) community

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Why a rename?

• 3.+4.7.2009 Hochschule München

• 4.+5.12.2010 LMU Amalienstraße

• 3.+4.12.2011 LMU Amalienstraße

• 1+2.12.2012 TU München, Garching

• 31.11.+1.12.2013 TU München, Garching

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5 Years OHSW

OpenPhoenux

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Phoenix \ˈfē-niks\

ancient Greek Φοίνιξ,from ancient Egyptian: benu = the reborn

Phoenux (fee-nugs) = Pho(n)e(Li)nux

reborn from Openmoko...

• was designed in an (unplanned) competition on Reddit for FOSDEM 2013

• ca. 10 proposals + voting

• stickers

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We have a new Logo!

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winning design by Philip Horger (CC-BY-SA)

• “The Independent Mobile Tool Community“

• it is NOT a „Goldelico event“(Goldelico is giving a hand to get it started and running, but just a member as everybody else)

• it is an informal group of people sharing knowledge and ideas under some common goals:

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So what is OpenPhoenux?

What the inventors of„PC“ and „WWW“ did want...

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computation, storage and communication is personal

WWW connects decentralized servers and clients to share information

everyone controls his/her data published to the net

(presented on LinuxTag 2013 - before we learned about NSA)

...but the Mainframe Dinosaur (or Borg?) is back!

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Big Data ... Mainframe architecture!

(Logically) Centralized Storage + thin clients (= Smart?Phones)

Facebook tries to become „The one and only Internet

Portal“

The operator of the Computing Center owns the User and the World...

(they even know things about you that you don‘t know)

Millions of different Apps replace the universal Web-Browser

concept and try to inject advertizing and data collection

everywhere

The user is no longer using the Web but becomes an object and a data source in the Web

Cloud & Centralized Services (iTunes, AppStore, FaceBook,

Google, ...)

(presented on LinuxTag 2013 - before we learned about NSA)

You don‘t believe?• Marketing and urban legends tell you:

• No.

• not every bit and piece is open and extensible or even long-living

• Try to provide your own home screen to iOS. Even Facebook Home failed.

• Try to connect a hardware keyboard. If you are lucky you have an USB host port. But do you have the driver?

• Try to get an upgrade for your 2 years old Android device.

• Try to understand why your device fails in a specific situation.

• Try to make sure your data is safe.

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Android and iOS are open enough for everybody. Yes!

(presented on LinuxTag 2013 - before we learned about NSA)

Solution: The Independent Mobile (communication) Tool Community

Hardware

GTA04DIY Case

TabletFRNBGTA02GTA01

Software

QtMokoSHR

ReplicantQuantumSTEPU-Boot/Kernel

PVR-SGX

Community

Openphoenux.orgMailing List

Project ServerSoftware Index

OHSW.orgStammtisch

World of OpenPhoenux

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OpenPhoenux Community

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wants to be independent from this policed but still unsafe world

needs support by independently thinking people

please join and support!

(presented on LinuxTag 2013 - before we learned about NSA)

OpenPhoenux stands for

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participation by everyone

extensible hard- and software - DIY (e.g. 3D case)

allows to inspect what the system is doing

can be repaired using standard parts

long-term support (e.g. software upgrades for an 2007 Neo 1973)

fights planned obsolescence through open hard- and software no central, intransparent, stock

exchange listed instance that gives directions

hardware production near to users (Europe) under fair

labour conditionsindependent from the "modern

mainframe" and back to the networked, decentralized web

everybody plays client and server roles and keeps control over

his/her participationmakes the technical system

transparent, not the user

(presented on LinuxTag 2013 - before we learned about NSA)

what we learned since now

• internet connected TV sets are a new playground for the „Big Data“ collectors trying to make the User transparent

• for privacy the device is less interesting because they can simply tap the network ...

• ... unless the device is open and can be analysed to be free of backdoors and unintentionally disabled security measures

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OpenPhoenux already has

Hardware

GTA04DIY Case

TabletFRNBGTA02GTA01

Software

QtMokoSHR

ReplicantQuantumSTEPU-Boot/Kernel

PVR-SGX

Community

Openphoenux.orgMailing List

Project ServerSoftware Index

OHSW.orgStammtisch

World of OpenPhoenux

Infrastucture

free&open GNU/Linux/U-Boot based

developed new hardware with open schematics and

good documentation; assembled in Bavaria

community created cases (wooden, 3D printed,

aluminium)

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Neo900

OpenPhoenux ...

• is an informal group of people (and companies) sharing knowledge and ideas

• has a home page www.openphoenux.org

• has a mailing list for discussions

• is open for everyone

➡ become a Member of the community!

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Mailing List members

• OpenPhoenux community: 168

• GTA04-owner: 263

• OHSW-planning: 49

• Openmoko community: 1,522

• LinuxQuestions.org: 511,597

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OHSW ...

• is a workshop series for open exchange of information

• has its origins in local Zaurus, Openmoko, BeagleBoard, FSO developer and user groups

• is about Open (not neccessarily Open Source) Hardware and Software

• not for profit - no fees for participation

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• Saturday: mainly plenary Presentations, Demonstrations, Discussions

• Sunday: mainly Workshop groups and Hacking sessions

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Structure of this Workshop

Have Fun!Good Discussions!

Many Learnings!

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