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Nov 20, 2007 4:49pm

jtoeman 57 posts

Hi there - we know that it's gotten a little quiet around here and we want to apologize. We also want to give you an update (overdue!) so you don't think something is amiss.

First - BIG thanks to everyone whose been involved in our beta program. We've learned a ton from you and are applying it to our software and hardware. We would not be where we are right now without you. Please keep pounding. There's more fun stuff on the way.

Second, when we initiated this beta program we got a great response from everyone - applicants, selected testers, etc. Many people jumped in and started exploring, coding and building things. Others hung back and waited to see what unfolded. And the truth is, not very many did. It became clear to us pretty quickly that we were asking a lot of you. Without hardware to play with and more module types to mash up, folks ran out of energy. We intended to get more resources into the mix but we weren't able to because everyone's working hard on getting product out the door. Since then we've been hiring and I'm happy to say we will be making hardware available soon too!

We are a few defects away from moving out of closed beta and into an open beta of the BUG SDK and BUGnet. And as I mentioned above, our hardware is fully up and operational (although we can't say there's no defects just yet!). Needless to say, we're pretty excited about getting to this point!

In December, we'll be bringing the first batch of BUGbases and BUGmodules to market. These initial BUGbase units will be limited production v0.9 hardware. We're giving them that designation for a couple reasons. We decided to change the design of the front panel a little bit and will not be able to get that change into these first units before the end of the year. Same thing for the wifi chip set. We will not be able to incorporate our new wifi design into BUGbase before year end. So rather than delay shipment, we've decided to go into limited production. These units are functionally identical to what our final production units will be (with the only exception being wifi). All our BUGmodules will be v1.0 production and will be fully compatible with both our limited production and full production BUGbases.

Between now and the open beta, you are welcome to continue to use BUGnet, the SDK, and participate in the forums. There will be at least one update to the SDK in the meantime. As we have reached this great milestone, we invited some of our blogger friends to come take a look at working hardware, here's a few videos (Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Silicon Alley Insider) that show it off. If any of you'd like to come by the office, please let us know, we'd love to meet you in person. For those of you in the SF Bay Area, we're having a meetup on November 29th and we hope you can stop by!

Thanks again,
Jeremy

Nov 20, 2007 9:00pm

finsprings 268 posts

Looks good guys! From this picture on AlleyInsider:

it seems like there must be a whole bunch of stuff that we haven't seen in the beta yet. Is that because all that stuff doesn't work on the VirtualBUG? Or are you planning on putting out a VirtualBUG/SDK update soon that includes these new features?

Also, what are the plans for the open beta? Are you done with us early folks when the open beta starts? :-(

Or are you planning on putting out some first-rev hardware to the beta testers? If so, are they free as loaners, or with a deposit or something, or do we need to buy them? If we need to buy them what will they cost? I just plunked down for the give one, get one on the OLPC XO so I've used up my gadget points for this month ;-)

Sorry for the questions-following-other-questions...

Cheers,
Dave

Nov 21, 2007 10:49am

kgilmer 215 posts

Dave, I’m not going to address all of your questions. But regarding the screenshot, what you are seeing is Qtopia as installed and configured by LTIB, our build tool. This is really just to show the LCDs working. The actual UI will probably look different. And yes, since the Virtual BUG emulates from Java up we are not able to put this stuff on. We’d have to emulate at the CPU level for this to work.

Nov 21, 2007 11:00pm

koolatron 52 posts

I thought it looked a lot like qtopia. I’ve got a Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 moldering in a drawer somewhere, and the screenshots on the various gadget blogs reminded me strongly of Opie.

It looks good.

Nov 29, 2007 5:23pm

jtoeman 57 posts

finsprings

Also, what are the plans for the open beta? Are you done with us early folks when the open beta starts? :-(

Open beta is a couple of weeks away, shooting for mid-December. We certainly hope y'all stick around and stay involved!

finsprings

Or are you planning on putting out some first-rev hardware to the beta testers? If so, are they free as loaners, or with a deposit or something, or do we need to buy them? If we need to buy them what will they cost? I just plunked down for the give one, get one on the OLPC XO so I've used up my gadget points for this month ;-)

We have a plan, but if you don't mind giving me just a couple more days on it, I'll be in touch on this soon!

Nov 29, 2007 7:01pm

finsprings 268 posts

jtoeman

We have a plan, but if you don't mind giving me just a couple more days on it, I'll be in touch on this soon!

Sounds great, thanks for the update. I know you guys are busy with getting ready for the release and all. I'm looking forward to hearing your ideas on what we do about data input and app mediation of the screen(s), so I can do some more work on the apps.

Cheers,
Dave

PS - Hope the SF thing goes well!

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