Suggestion: NanoNote Personalities Program
sjl at ross154.net
sjl at ross154.net
Sat Sep 12 16:36:17 EDT 2009
NanoNote Personalities Program[1]
You know the changable cellphone cover fad, where they snapped on
different colorful plastic covers? The NanoNote should offer
different "spins" offering different types of functionality,
aka "personalities".
Example personalities:
* graphing calculator
* electronic spelling dictionary / translator
* travel buddy (wikitravel / openstreetmap)
* puzzle games
* beginner programming languages (python, pascal, etc)
* PDA
* Gutenberg ebooks reader
Every personality would be available both as a downloadable
image and preinstalled on SD cards sold as NN accessories.
Every SD card would have a custom sticker to show at a
glance which personality is installed on it.
There would be a little case or slipcover for the NN
that would include a little compartment for an SD collection.
Company responsibilities:
* Pay an artist to work with personality development teams on a
a splashscreen + tiny SD sticker art for each team
* Pay good tech writers to develop user guides for each personality;
bonus points for paying tech writers to help out on developer docs!!
* Provide hosting for personality development teams, but also support
mirroring of install images for teams that want to use their
own server
* Hire knowledgable and good-tempered customer support engineers
willing to shield developers from grumpy customers and
customers from grumpy developers
* Handle retail of the pre-installed SDs, including the custom
stickers for branding (also offer stickers separately for those
who want to download images to already-owned SD)
* Offer to donate some portion of pre-installed SD / sticker profit to
project designated by leaders of corresponding dev team
Developer team responsibilities:
Most of the personalities would use the openwrt base, but some of
the ones intended for hacking might slap the NN kernel into another
embedded distro, e.g. a gentoo embedded experiment (gentoo has
mips support).
* Work with artist to come up with custom splashscreen
and SD sticker art
* Make sure the official splashscreen for the personality gets
displayed at boot
* Answer questions from tech writer regarding user guide
[1] "program" in the sense of "something you can participate in",
not in the sense of "code a computer executes"
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