Canola launching is today!
Ok, this is my last post before the launching. Today it’s the big day and of course I’m going to use each minute of this day to make sure everything is fine. Testing repositories, testing and retesting debians package with mistral and scirrocco (wrong I know) finishing the hot site with instructions, known issues and of course + videos, and to end also launch our lab’s site, Openbossa.
So folks, we did our best, we hope you all enjoy canola, and the most important thing : please give us a lot of feedback. Your comments will be the main motivation for the future versions and of course we will try our best to make it better and better.
It’s 1:27 am , november 29th, and I’ll post again only to link to the hotsite, etc. Hours left only know.. OMG! so much to do! no sleep, no rest… every project has been like this in all these 7 years of professional experience, but I really don’t want to give up doing things like this!
Thank man.
I’m anxious to try it out ;)
November 28th, 2006 at 11:38 pmGood luck with the release of canola today!
I will be thinking of you and the team working hard to resolve the last minute issues. It will be worth it!
The small amount of testing of the Canola demo beta has convinved me of that ;-)
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November 29th, 2006 at 1:12 amCharging up battery #2 :) I’m very curious about it, the you tube videos were very promising!
November 29th, 2006 at 6:36 amGood Luck man!
I’m anxious too, since the announce of the project.
November 29th, 2006 at 7:20 amI’ll make a Doom3 PDA skin for Maemo and I’d like to know the guidelines of making skins, in order to make one for Canola :D
Marcelo, the beta version was geat and I’m sure that the final release will be better. Good luck with the release and keep up the good work!
November 29th, 2006 at 9:40 amlet it out already!
November 29th, 2006 at 10:32 am> let it out already!
I couldn’t agree more …
November 29th, 2006 at 11:42 amMy anxiety is palpable! Drooling over images and youtube vdeos can no longer sustain me ;)
This project looks awesome I cannot wait to experience it first hand.
November 29th, 2006 at 12:27 pmOK, it’s 2pm on 29th of november here in houston. Is it out yet?
November 29th, 2006 at 1:04 pmit doesn’t seem to be out yet. Damn. Can’t sleep before the release…
November 29th, 2006 at 2:02 pmIt’s 22:28 here in spain… argh!
November 29th, 2006 at 2:28 pmNovember 30th is a much better date :-)
November 29th, 2006 at 2:39 pmGood luck!
Come on, come on, come on!
November 29th, 2006 at 3:04 pmI have it all fixed but canola is still missing. Soon i’m going to be forced to go to bed. Less than 8 hours till wake-up…
I was already very impressed by the video and have a question: will it be skinable?
November 29th, 2006 at 3:21 pmI saw it is skinable and btw it is 23:29 in the Netherlands
November 29th, 2006 at 3:29 pmManMan, you guys really remind me of Cory Doctorow’s
November 29th, 2006 at 3:32 pm“Eastern Standard Tribe”. It’s a good book to read if
you get the chance. That said, it’s 5:30pm EST over
here. We’re not going to die by waiting a while., you guys really remind me of Cory Doctorow’s “Eastern Standard Tribe”. It’s a good book to read if you get the chance. That said, it’s 5:30pm EST over here.
Ugh, 770 screws up text entry some kinda bad. :)
November 29th, 2006 at 3:34 pm20 minutes left in Europe :(
November 29th, 2006 at 3:42 pmuh, 23:50 in Spain…. release it soon, pleaseeeee i don’t want go to the bed! :_(
November 29th, 2006 at 3:54 pmIt seems like part of some evil genius’ masterplan which tries to destroy our good night’s sleep … ;)
Or tomorrow morning for those of us who try to keep waiting ;)
November 29th, 2006 at 3:54 pmwell, why not just take a nice sleep, and wake up tomorrow welcomed by the nice cool canola? ;)
i’ll be waiting ;)
November 29th, 2006 at 4:11 pmehm… to sleep is for loosers XD
November 29th, 2006 at 4:15 pmI was hoping for at least a work from Marcelo.. an update at least of what’s going on.
November 29th, 2006 at 4:24 pmAnyway.. going to sleep. This was my last check :)
There’s a Portuguese saying that goes like this…
November 29th, 2006 at 4:32 pm“A montanha pariu um rato…”
it means something like: “Great diaspointment follows a great expectation…”
00:36 here in Catalonia and with a big big cup of coffee :P
November 29th, 2006 at 4:37 pmIt’s 30th here!!!! argh
November 29th, 2006 at 4:41 pmIts the 30th here in the UK now…
November 29th, 2006 at 5:01 pm[...] In other 770 news, Canola Media Player will be launching today and will be released on Maemo Garage. Canola is one of the most impressive applications created specifically for the 770. It is a media player for both local and streaming media sources and includes support for a number of popular UPnP media servers. Canola is capable of playing a wide variety of audio and video standards, as well as popular picture formats. There are a number of excellent videos of Canola in action on YouTube and beta testers have been singing its praises. With the 770’s excellent 800*480 screen and wireless connectivity options, Canola may just be the killer app for the 770. Forget the Zune’s crappy wifi integration, this is how wireless capability should be leveraged for media! I look forward to being able to pull out my 770 and have access to my full media collection whenever it strikes my fancy. [...]
November 29th, 2006 at 7:08 pmCalm down! We’re compiling and testing last issues… we want to please you with the best software ever ;-)
November 29th, 2006 at 7:10 pm