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OSCON is the largest conference containing the broad open source community, so it’s good to see plentiful OpenedHand appearances at this huge event. First up at the Open Mobile Exchange was Jenny Minor on Handwave to Hardware: A Product Story Bit by Bit, the story of how Vernier created the LabQuest from product concept to shipping [...]

As I sit here in a currently very wet London manning the fort, the rest of the OH gang are over in Istanbul, Turkey attending this years GUADEC - The GNOME users and developers european conference. Today was pretty much OH talk day with presentations by OH folks on Poky development tools, Clutter internals, GeoClue, [...]

Senator Barack Obama paid a surprise visit to our good friends at Vernier (makers of the Labquest device). Seems he got the chance to play with a Poky and GNOME Mobile powered Labquest and attach his signature to one: More info on this visit; here, here and here.

The OHMen arrived this week at the office. Limited to just 50 men, they’ll soon be departing to our various friends around the world. If one lands on your doorstep for adoption, please take good care of him and in return he’ll help you out — he’s blessed with OH super powers dont you [...]

Øyvind Kolås will be talking about GEGL today at the Libre Graphics Meeting in Wrocław, Poland. Samuel Ortiz will be discussing the OpenMoko project at LinuxDays 2008 on the 21st May in Geneva.

Spotted on YouTube, a short promotional film on last months Open Bossa open source conference in Brazil. Can you spot OH’s Pippin and Andrew ?

As previously mentioned; Tomas’s submitted ‘Clutter: Breathing Life into User Interfaces‘ talk has now been accepted for this years O’Reilly OSCON open source convention as part of the emerging topics track. Also OSCON this year features the first ... [More] Open Mobile Exchange. Hosted by Jeff Waugh, its described as ‘a one-day event devoted to exploring the nexus [...] [Less]

Lots of fun things happening at OpenedHand at the moment, so we’re looking for some more people to fill out the team. Currently we’ve got six open positions; Junior Kernel Developer OpenEmbedded/Poky Engineer Clutter Application Developer Senior ... [More] UI/UX Designer Junior Designer Student Intern If any of those take your fancy or you want to find out more then please visit our employment [...] [Less]

Paul from OH will be attending the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit next week at the UT Supercomputing Center, Austin, Texas. As part of the summit, the third GNOME Mobile summit will also be taking place. Further details can be found in the press release and schedule.

The OH Merchandising dept has been hard at work. Forget T-Shirts, toys are the new must have promotional item. Currently in production; OHMAN: (OHMAN Mockup and initial production run) Poky Beaver: (Poky beaver 3D CAD model and early protos from mold) Final ‘builds’ should appear soon. Watch this space.