OSD 1.x development and OSDng

[bmc]

Well folks, as you can tell I've had my fun tinkering with the OSD.
Now it's *your turn*.

I'll be traveling for a bit, and when I return I'll be pretty busy
with my real job for a while.

I'd love to see some activity from the OSD dev community, now that the
barriers to entry for improving the OSD are so low.

I put up a wiki page with some possible directions at
http://wiki.neurostechnology.com/index.php/OSDng

Anyone can edit there. Maybe use it to coordinate. You've also got
the google group and the neuros forums.

On the OSD itself, you've now got:

* dynamic menus
* perl
* lua
* rexx (Fernando, I'm looking at you)
* a "dialog" program
* a "textview" program
* ipkg to distribute your improvements to each other
** ("ipkg install http://somewhere.com/mypackage.ipkg")
* the ability to change everything, any file, anywhere on the OSD
** no more need for monolithic firmware upgrades.

I'll check back in a bit. If great things are happening, I'll help
coordinate and put stuff into the central ipkg repo.

Happy OSD hacking.

[Joe Born]

This is truly unbelievable! Thanks so much for your contributions!

Joe

[johntynan]

bmc and all,

This looks like some great work! I was worried development for the
OSD1 would stall. This hardly looks to be the case.

I'm a bit slammed with work (and our expecting a baby) at the moment,
but I have to say that when my schedule relaxes a bit, I'm going to do
my best to get up to speed with the OSDng and contribute as I can.

I know for one, I can try to to reproduce the stuttering issue with
mp3 files. I may be able to tinker around in other ways (I know for
instance someone scripted a web browser in lua awhile back) we may be
able to bring this work into the OSDng.

If you do not hear back from me by the the time you return from
traveling, feel free to send me a note.

Thanks so much for your work!

JT

On Jun 17, 11:28 am, Joe Born <jb...@neurostechnology.com> wrote:
> This is truly unbelievable!  Thanks so much for your contributions!
>
> Joe
>

> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:58 AM, bmc<bmcarnes_neu...@oddren.com> wrote:
>
> > Well folks, as you can tell I've had my fun tinkering with the OSD.
> > Now it's *your turn*.
>
> > I'll be traveling for a bit, and when I return I'll be pretty busy
> > with my real job for a while.
>
> > I'd love to see some activity from the OSD dev community, now that the
> > barriers to entry for improving the OSD are so low.
>
> > I put up a wiki page with some possible directions at
> >http://wiki.neurostechnology.com/index.php/OSDng
>
> > Anyone can edit there.  Maybe use it to coordinate.  You've also got
> > the google group and the neuros forums.
>
> > On the OSD itself, you've now got:
>
> > * dynamic menus
> > * perl
> > * lua
> > * rexx (Fernando, I'm looking at you)
> > * a "dialog" program
> > * a "textview" program
> > * ipkg to distribute your improvements to each other

> > ** ("ipkg installhttp://somewhere.com/mypackage.ipkg")