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From: "Timo Pelkonen" <peltsip@gmail.com><br />
To: "List for community development" <maemo-community@maemo.org><br />
Subject: Re: OpenDesign N900<br />
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:02:37 +0200<br />
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<div class="gmail_quote">2010/1/9 Qole <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:qole.tablet@gmail.com">qole.tablet@gmail.com</a>></span> <br />
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<div class="im">On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Timo Pelkonen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peltsip@gmail.com">peltsip@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br />
 
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<div class="im">2010/1/7 chemist <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chemist@dostortugas.org">chemist@dostortugas.org</a>></span></div>
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<div class="im">Hey folks,<br />
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after reading several posts about the crap backpanel I came to the idea<br />
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to ask the community for a redesign ...<br />
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<div class="im">Maybe Nokia is interessted in it and will provide us with the drawings<br />
to start from. This way <a target="_blank" href="http://maemo.org">maemo.org</a> would expand to maintain<br />
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opendesign hardware as well as opensource software...<br />
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<div>I am pretty sure that nokia won't send a model of theirs...<br />
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It would be great if they would!<br />
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I think it would be a wonderful good-will offering to the open source community to share some of their hardware designs with us, too! This one isn't really a big deal, is it? Nothing super-proprietary or secret?<br />
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Last year, the Maemo division was formed to handle both software AND hardware for Maemo devices. Can we start to see some opening up of the hardware side, now, too?<br />
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Please?<br />
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<div>There are issues like competition in accessory markets. So the main question is, will the original model leak to internet for public access? Giving an exact 3d-model to sweat shops is a bit like doing ~15 hours charity work for them (14 hours is an old magical number for design duration per part). One cnc -machiner with 3d-model creates a program for moulds in a hour or two, machine does its work overnight.</div>
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<div>But it is up Nokia to decide if the risk is worth the reward.</div>
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<div>Any way I am doing my work mostly with solidworks (soon 2010 -version) and if this gets started, I can help too.</div>
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<div>Ossipena / Timo</div>
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Very cool Timo-- I am a SolidWorks guy myself, but am unable to upgrade past 2002 version.  Dabble in Alibre CAD (free version) a bit too, and used to do 3D using PTC and AutoCAD as well.<br />
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