Handhelds People
These are people who are working towards the goal of a useful Linux distribution for handheld systems. If you're working on something handhelds related, feel free to add yourself! Please do it in alphabet-order, and use last name, first name format.
See also HandheldsUsers and AboutOpenHandhelds.
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| Adams, Mike | mike@slowinternet d0t com | ech0 | Manning the gas can, to fuel the air compressor, that is powering the pneumatic air gun, that is driving nails in the Windoze CE coffin :-)).. AKA a general purpose lowly helper.. Testing hardware configs, Documentation, Procedures, etc. | |
| AKAQuinn | AKAQuinn AT hotmail DOT com |
I'm making a port of FreeCiv to iPAQ Linux. Probably already been done, but mine will be better |
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| Ananiev,Vladimir | vovan888 at gmail com | Porting linux to Siemens SX1 smartphone | ||
| Arias, Mario | mariari|at|lab.fi.uva.es | Valladolid, Spain | Porting linux to Dell Axim x3i | |
| Arora, Arjun | pitdevil013 at yahoo dot com | pitdevil | Indianapolis, IN USA | 2.6 port for IPAQ h1940/30/45 |
| Attenborough, Michael | michael AT brainboxes DOT com | matten | Digital hardware engineer, interested in getting CF Bluetooth cards to work in all sorts of Linux devices. I understand the hardware rather better than the software. | |
| Avinery, Jeremy | avinery@gmail.com | Israel | Trying to port Linux to Dell Axim X50(v) | |
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| Bĺgfors, Erik | erik (at) bagfors.nu | Zindar | A big fan of Gnome and Ruby. Wants them running nice and interoperable in my IPAQ. Very interested in building a real sync-framework for handheld linux. | |
| Bénony, Vincent | vbenony (-at-) nordnet (-dot-) fr | Lille, France | kernel port on Asus MyPal A620 | |
| Bieschewski, Stefan | stb@hawo.stw.uni-erlangen.de | stb | m68k emulation, arm code compression | |
| Bosticardo, Roberto | bostik@madia.net | bostik | Voice over IPv6 on iPAQ at Telecom Italia Lab. | |
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| Cary, David | d.cary+handhelds.org AT ieee.org | Tulsa OK | developing medical electronics ... robot electronics ... code compression | |
| Causey, Ken | nikos@handhelds.org | nikos | On hiatus | |
| Chakravarty, Eric | e.chakravarty@sms.ed.ac.uk | Edinburgh, Scotland | Trying to get iPAQ 5450 working as suitably cool Linux toy. | |
| Chiu, Chaz | chazchiu@gmail.com | aybabtuu | Hong Kong | Working on linux port to this not so popular Mio8390 |
| Christian, Andrew | andyc@handhelds.org | andyc |
Research Staff, Hewlett-Packard Company, |
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| Chua, Sacha | sachac at iname dot com | sachac | Discovering the joys of QPE while trying to compile the darn thing. | |
| Clark, Anthony | clarkan@dsl-only.net | volkam | Working on Monochrome Ipaq, H3135-GNOME-Qpe for H3135. | |
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dav@aesthetes.net | Using the iPAQ for music performance/development and as a remote interface over WiFi. Please contact me if you're interested (esp. in the Cambridge, MA area!). | ||
| Clegg, Sam | samc@superduper.net | samo |
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| Cliffe, Owen | zoot@zoot.org.uk | zooty | Grape, a gnome subset for palmtop linux http://www.grape.org.uk/ | |
| Cloos, James | cloos@jhcloos.com | (clever line on hold; watch this space) | ||
| Colaço, Pedro Reis | prcolaco at gmail dot com | Lisbon, Portugal | Trying to port Linux to ETEN M600 | |
| David Cottrill | cottrill.david gmail | Canberra, Australia | Use iPAQ as high end processor (relative to AVRs I'm more used to) for robot application | |
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| De Bellefeuille, Martin | tekadmin@gmail.com | Quebec, Canada | familiar 0.8, working on a media integration project with the integration of the SIP protocol. Developing a "reverse" environnement, to connect the iPAQ via USB, boot on it and being able to use all the computers peripherals. http://pdalinux.name | |
| De Swert, Philippe | philippedeswert at scarlet.be | Philippe | Tampere, Finland | GPE help and help system, gpe-mini-browser, and misc handhelds or gpe fixes |
| Disconnect | hh_wiki at sigkill hatesspam net | disconnect |
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| Distl, Bernhard | distlb at student.ethz.ch | Switzerland | iPAQ Hx2400 basics | |
| Doi, Yusuke | ydoi at isl dot rdc dot toshiba dot co dot jp |
Kidding with tiny |
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| Droessler, Philipp | reo@gmx.at | kingmob | Currently translating handhelds.org to German. | |
| Drokin, Oleg | green@linuxhacker.ru | green | USBNET, FIR, random kernel hacks | |
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cadu at nerdfeliz dot com | Cadu aka medaglia | Brasil | Working on Palm Tungsten E2 port. |
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| Eggleton, Paul | bluelightning(at]bluelightning dot org | bluelightning | Auckland, New Zealand | Opie - development, website, bug system maintenance |
| Elser, Michael | melser@student.ethz.ch | Rince | Python programming. Just finished a basic image viewer for digital camera CF cards. | |
| EShadow | eshadow@brturbo.com | Curitiba-PR, Brazil | Intrested in driver development and app porting | |
| Evang, Jan Marius | ipaq@evang.net | Denmark | Dual-boot linux with root on PCMCIA or CF card | |
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| Fokan, Frédéric | frederic@fokan.be | Bruxelles Belgium |
Making some test on Ipaq 3870 and porting some package for working with Familiar. Focused on Linux computing, security, bluetooth, wireless and embedded systems. Involved in differents Belgium linux association as |
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| Fontenot, Dwayne | o:dwayne.fontenot@att.net | jacques | Intimate helper | |
| Ford, Oliver | handheldswiki<at>oliford.co.uk | oliford | Oxford, UK | iPAQ 21x support in kernel. |
| Fowler, Adam | aff9@users.sourceforge.net | Serp | Interested in usability, consistent interfaces, dynamic network service provision, multimedia applications, small footprint distributions. Oh, and getting doom working. =o) | |
| France, George | france@handhelds.org | france | George France - http://handhelds.org/~france One of the founders of handhelds.org. Formerly - ASE,Hewlett-Packard Company, Cambridge Research Lab | |
| Freeman, Ian | molafish. AT .hotmail.com | molafish | California, USA | Looking to port to Cingular 8125 (OMAP850, ARM926TEJ) soon |
| Freyther, Holger | zecke@handhelds.org | zecke | Berlin, Germany | student, kde- and opie-developer |
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| Gacquer, William | William.Gacquer@ekkla-research.com | m4n |
Founded Ekkla Research, the company that puts 3D in your pocket. Not just simple 3D, but real one, with relief! And of course, all that runs on linux! ( Nintendo, if you read that, please contact me for your next generation GameBoy |
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| Gardich, Alessandro | >>gremlin(#)gremlin(!)it<< | gremlin[it] | Venice, ITALY | kernel 2.6 porting on old iPAQs, h3600 |
| Gelder, Kero van | kero@chello.nl | Kero | Ruby, Ruby Agenda, Power Comsumption, (kaffe for X) | |
| Gettys, Jim | jg@pa.dec.com | jg | Hewlett-Packard Company, Corporate Research, Cambridge Research Laboratory | |
| Gleason, Chris | chrisgleason@sbcglobal.net | sfcg | San Francisco, CA | Just helping with WIKI updates |
| GorgonMedusa | lara007624@163.com | China | Make the start with Ipaq 3970 ,using Gpe famaliar 0.8,No audio,bug with bluetooth,But exciting | |
| Greenaway, Gareth | gareth@wiked.org | Morph | Working on the Familiar Framework aka Salamander and Mingle, a contact manager written in python and gtk. | |
| Grosshans, Gottfried J. M. | grobi@cytux.de | Linux, Forth expert and Aviation Application Development - http://www.cytux.de | ||
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| Halliday, Brendan | wodann@gmail.com | p0m | Queensland, Australia | Ipaq 3900(70) IrDA support through LIRC |
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pierrox@pierrox.net | pierrox | Lyon, France | G500 project : everything i can do, from the wiki pages to the kernel hacking |
| Hellerstedt, Henrik | henrik@katedral.se | Mayday | something | |
| Henderson, Bill | williecdog@visto.com | williecdog | Just a lowly linux addict... | |
| Hennekeler, Dirk van | dirk.vanhennekeler@compaq.com | Advanced Development, Compaq Computer Australia | ||
| Hicks, Jamey | jamey@crl.dec.com | jamey |
Research Staff, Hewlett-Packard Company, |
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| Hovland, Erik | erik AT hovland DOT org | uE | Glendale, CA USA | Maintain HpIpaqH5400, kernel stability, porting h5400 to kernel 2.6 |
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| Jamieson, Kyle | kasj78@yahoo.com | jamieson | Hacking 802.11 cards | |
| Jarzmik, Robert | rjarzmik AT yahoo DOT fr | diogene31 | France | Adding linux kernel support to the MIO A701 |
| Jie, Charles | chjie7 AT gmail DOT com | Taipei, Taiwan | Want to port linux (at best, familiar) to acer n311 | |
| Johnson, Stephen | sjohnson@monsters.org | sjohnson | Tinkering, testing, help out on IRC | |
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| Kaiser, David | dkaiser@linuxcare.com | digdude | Usability & Compatibility Freak | |
| Kempin, Wolfgang | kempin [at] in [dot] tum [dot] de | uimp | Garching, Germany | Porting linux to the Acer N50 PDA |
| Kestutis | kesfx a_t one.lt | Lithuania, EU | hp ipaq hx2410 basics | |
| Kirksey, Tom | xmame, xpaint, xbutnmapr, PyGTK stuff, hardware hacker | |||
| Kirma, Jari | kirma@cs.hut.fi | kirma | Experimenting with wireless/Mobile IP and related apps. | |
| Klein, Mike | mikeklein@ieee.org | mklein | Focused on mobile computing, automation, security, linux, java, and embedded systems. | |
| Kluge, Martin | martin@elxsi.de | martin |
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| Kohn, Philip | pkohn@mail.nih.gov | Washington, DC, USA | User of Zaurus 5500 and C760. Working on qpdf2 and qkonsole. Interested in innovative PIM, gesture interfaces, social & interactive art projects | |
| Kolov, Andrey | kaafree@yahoo.com | Moscow, Russia | Helping with different Palm's wiki pages | |
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koen[at]handhelds dot org | koen | Enschede, The Netherlands | Working on H22xx, H5xxx and GPE related stuff, also the familiar image building monkey |
| Korsgaard, Peter | jacmet@handhelds.org | jacmet |
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| Landsman, Seth | seth@dworkin.net | Working on GPE apps and cross compilation right now. | ||
| Lange, Alex | chicken at handhelds dot org | Chicken | Munich, Germany | Working on HP Jornada 56x, opensource Simpad bootloader and Opie feeds. |
| Lauer, Mickey | mickey@tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de | mickeyl | Interested in a Python/PyQt/QPE for IPAQ & Zaurus environment. Current research topic (working on a Ph.D) is adaptive e-learning applications in mobile ad-hoc networks | |
| Lauland, Nick | lauland at mail dot utexas dot edu | Austin, TX | Getting Linux running on the Dell Axim X3. NickelPickle on IRC. | |
| Layne, Joshua | joshua at willowisp dot net | Half Moon Bay, California, US | Generally making an annoyance of myself on the H22xx board/listserv - although I am very interested in contributing, I haven't yet managed that. I am drooling over actually running linux on my 2215. | |
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lkcl@lkcl.net | England |
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| Lemieux, Jeremy | jpl@oit.umass.edu | Various (Pule) | Wearables, mobile computing, strongarm linux kernel | |
| Lepagnot, Cyril | cyrill62@hotmail.com | cyrill62 | Lille/France | Mitac Mio A701 project |
| Limberger, René | rene.limberger@myrealbox.com | rene | TCL/TK on iPAQ, netBSD | |
| Long, Benjamin | bflong at longbros dot com | Bipolar | I'm "porting" apps and learning. I still have not found that free beer that everyone keeps talking about. | |
| Lubbes, Ruben | sikko@theendofinter.net | Amsterdam, the Netherlands | Translation of OPIE in Dutch (nl) trying to make documentation for using Familiar on iPaq in Dutch, see http://handhelds.theendofinter.net | |
| Lynne, Stuart | sl@lineo.com | USB Devices | ||
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| Makitalo, Per-Erik | per-erik dot makitalo at unx.nu | Sweden | Testing all harware for IPAQ that i can get my hands on. Working on some documentation/HOW-TOs for diferent hardware on IPAQ. Testing the new versions of familiar and opie. Trying to help out on the familiar mailing list | |
| mandrake | mandrake@mandrake.net | mandrake | Working on building a PIM application, bringing synthetic speech to the iPAQ, and building a new lightweight window manager for small touchscreen displays. | |
| Marquardt, Colin | cmarqu@handhelds.org | Stuttgart, Germany |
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| Masinick, Brian | masinick@yahoo.com | The Mas |
The Mas Software, just tracking this space right now. Hope to carve out some time to actually contribute. Might be able to take on some QA/QC activity. |
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| Mason, Christopher | cmason@cmu.edu | Various, follow link. | ||
| Massey, Bart | bart@cs.pdx.edu | po8 | X stuff, IPSEC, build environment | |
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| Marques, Matusalem | matusalem@netcabo.pt | Hanging around the wiki and trying to have fun with his iPAQ | ||
| McNab, David | david at freenet dot org dot nz | aum | Many and varied interests. Am working on software for defense of privacy and civil liberties issues, alternative forms of healing (am using iPaq in a biofeedback application), and getting a useful flavour of Forth up and running on the iPaq. | |
| Michels, Philipp | pmichels[at]handhelds[dot]org | (irc: phimic) | Freiburg, Germany | student, website translation, opie-user |
| Miguelez, Alonso Vidales | webmaster at garpanta dot com | Garrapata | Valladolid, Spain | 2.6 port for Acer n30/n35 |
| MikEw | mw(underscore)phil(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk | Shropshire, UK | Finding work, climbing hills, BBC radio | |
| Mohr, Andreas | andi at a server called lisas.de | Germany | Axim X5 Linux 2.6.x / bootloader porting helper (planned, but no time yet) | |
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spyro at f2s dot com | spyro | England | Toshiba e740, e750 and e800 ports. |
| Mordormx, Alex | alex@mordormx.net | Mexico City | I just install the system and is working smooth, i will work developing something useful to import palm data. I have a Compaq Ipaq 3630 running Familiar Opie, Excelent Work!! | |
| Mounicou, Sonny | smounico@olemiss.edu | OS1R1S | apm support, extra utilities | |
| Muller, Edward | edwardam@home.com | edwardam | PythonOnHandhelds, Original iPAQ-PPP setup, General Linux Advocate | |
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| Nelson, Russ | handhelds@russnelson.com | nelson | t-cube, pyGPS | |
| Neuer, Dave | mr_fred_smoothie@yahoo.com | dneuer | Miscellaneous hacklets (mostly related to kernel on H31xx series) | |
| Nikolaenko, Serge | mypal_hh at utl dot ru | Ussuriysk | Linux on Asus MyPal A730 | |
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michael at opdenacker dot org | Nice, France | Owner of h3970 and h2200 PDAs. Member of the h2200-port team. | |
| Osborne, Alex | bobofdoom at gmail | BobOfDoom | Canberra, Australia | porting to the PalmLifeDrive |
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mpakula@go2.pl | mpakula | Just a happy camper watching the game, observing it... Playing with videoconferencing tools on Mobile Network, GSM phone with PIM apps, learning pygtk and all the other stuff that one should know :o) | |
| Panariti, David | davep@crl.dec.com |
Research Staff, Hewlett-Packard Company, |
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cronos@olimpo.homelinux.net | Cronos |
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| Patrone, Nello | npatrone@gmail.com | Porting of Rtlinux on Familiar Os on HP Ipaq h5400 series | ||
| Pennington, Jonathan | See page | EGg0 | Porting to the h4355, random other projects. | |
| Poe, Ted | poet@world.std.com | PythonOnHandhelds, Storm, General Linux Advocate | ||
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lpotter 0x40 trolltech 0x2e com | ljp | Qtopia Community Liaison, and Opie core developer... Whippin' Opie's ipaq using developers to keep the Zaurus in mind. | |
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farcaller AT gmail DOT com | farcaller | Porting to Palm Tungsten T3 | |
| Prior, Pete | me at nermal d0t org | Nermal | Helping out on irc, fiddling, porting apps to work on familiar | |
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| Rajagopalan, Mohan | mohan@cs.arizona.edu | mohan | Operating Systems and Compiler optimizations for handheld/wearable devices | |
| Rebouças, Maria Cecilia | cecilia@larces.uece.br | Fortaleza-CE, Brazil |
Working on Ipaq h5450-GPE and sooner on Nokia 770. "Basically" porting an Ad-Hoc Network Protocol to this devices. Research interest: Mobile and Wireless Networks. Actually I am working on |
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| Redler, Steve | steve@sr-tech.com | stever | tcl/tk on iPaq,prism2 wlan driver,Icewm,ppp,usbnet,Linux sysadmin, hardware/software hacker, Chief Scientist at SR Technology | |
| Reedstrom, Ross | reedstrm@rice.edu | reedstrm | playing with various add-on devices: HP-VGA, stowaway, wireless. databases, too | |
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harlekin@handhelds.org | Harlekin | Opie core devel and working on many Opie Project apps: today, opieplayer plugins, launcher, everything that need fixes.... Whippin' Opie's zaurus using developers to keep the iPAQ in mind. | |
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Tim@Rikers.org | TimRiker | BusyBox, uClibc, TuxScreen, BuildSystem, ibot/jbot on FreeNode, etc. | |
| Rodkey, John | poobah[at]westmont.edu | Santa Barbara, CA | Working on www documentation and stowaway | |
| Ruedisueli, Robert | ruedii@earthlink.net | RuediiX | Lima OH, United States | Was working on installing from Mac, project canceled due to difficulty conflicting with time issues. Theory will be placed in document to be further explored. New blog entry about this will soon be made at http://www.livejournal.com/users/ruediix |
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jpsaman@wxs.nl | Netherlands | Porting VideoLan Client from the VideoLAN Project to handhelds distributions and environments like Familiar, GPE and Opie | |
| Santala, Jukka | donwulff@nic.fi | jsantala |
X-Smiles research team, |
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| Sarnovsky, Jesse | jesse@sarnovsky.net | jessesar | Have more handhelds than I can handle, but happy to test things out. Can't wait for the HP568 support :) | |
| Saye, Mark G. | markgsaye@yahoo.com | mgs |
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don@seiler.us | Hoping to learn some development. Currently just posting annoying feature requests to the GPE bugzilla. | ||
| Shields, Mike | mike@netwater.com | mike | Let's get a decent HTML4 browser running, eh?* | |
| Snell, James T | jaymers at gmail | -- | Calgary, Canada | Working on getting things more refined for HP iPAQ4150 - writing docs and making file archives to help others get started |
| Soard, E.Allen | esp at espsw dot net | DragonEagle | Doing what I can to help further the development of linux for handheld devices. | |
| Sokolovsky, Paul | psokolovsky | h4000 maintainer (as of 2006-09). Working on cleaning up both kernel and userland for mainline inclusion. See page for more info. | ||
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nabbe at digifirm dot se | Funklord | Stockholm, SE | Linux for HTC-BlueAngel. |
| Sparks, Steve | ssparks@sss.org | ssparks | Linux/Handhelds/Wireless Collector and Experimenter | |
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zac at sprackett dot com | Ottawa, ON Canada | Zaurus, IPAQ, NetWinder, Arm Linux | |
| Stempin, Michel | michel.stempin@wanadoo.fr | mstempin | Working on a Linux iPAQ HOWTO | |
| Stepkin,Sergey | serrge at yandex ru | Russia, Kemerovo | Porting linux to Siemens SX1 smartphone | |
| Sternloff, Scott | ssternloff@bellsouth.net | Working on getting a Bluetooth Headset Profile working with my H3870. | ||
| Sukthankar, Gita | gitars@crl.dec.com | gitars |
Research Staff, Hewlett-Packard Company, |
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rajeshsweb AT rediffmail D0T com | rajeshsweb | Development of Linux drivers for Wi-Fi, IEEE 802.11abgn (and may be, WiMAX in future) | |
| Szabó, Balázs | dlux at kapu.hu | dLux |
PIM application suite in perl/DBI/Gtk::Gladexml, called PimPaq, and a lot of |
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| Taht, Michael | mtaht@mvista.com | rhysling | virtual keyboards, wireless, squashed gtk | |
| Tanner, Damien | dctanner at magenet.com | dc_ | Working on the GPE Project. | |
| Thai, Hue | hupio@yahoo.com | Working on wlan at76c503/ Benchmarking sofware | ||
| Trauzzi, Alexander | atrauzzi@hotmail.com | Winnipeg, MB Canada | Anxious owner of an H2200 series PDA. I await the day I can use Linux on this baby... | |
| Tröndle, Stefan | stefantroendle@web.de | sfc750rider | Currently translating handhelds.org to German. | |
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dougt at meer dot net | San Jose, California USA | Minimo project owner. | |
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| Vieira, Wayne | waynev@sgi.com | waynev | X, Mesa, OpenGL | |
| Vukicevic, Vladimir | vladimir@helixcode.com | vlad1 | HelixGNOME, DebianOnIpaq, random bits and apps | |
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| Wagner, Markus | markus1108wagner(]t-online(]de | Murk | Germany | Working on a port for Asus A730 |
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| Walthinsen, Erik | omega@ridgerun.com | omega_ | Red Hat 7.0 packages port via NetWinder | |
| Watkins, Robert | robert_maria@yahoo.com | User-centered design (HandHeldUserInterface), Linux advocacy, web design, beer | ||
| Wientapper, Matthias | m.wientapper at gmx.de | mattzz | Hacking around on the ipaq, trying to learn more about linux on ipaq. | |
| Wise, Joshua | joshua wise dot com |
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| Worth, Bryan | bryan@theWorths.org | bworth | Ipaq Accelerometer Dongle, USB Networking Client for Windows | |
| Worth, Carl | cworth@east.isi.edu | cworth | JavaOnHandhelds, HandwritingRecognition, PoseOnIpaq | |
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info@xiaprojects.com | Univerity students developers, iPaq 38xx with CF Boot, develop sw & boot scripts. | ||
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anpaza@mail.ru | zap | St. Petersburg, Russia | Dell Axim X5 kernel adaptation, MediaQ 1132 driver |
| Zheng, Cloud | cloudxxx@gmail.com | cloudxxx | P.R.China | Application and service layer, Flash-based GUI, Dell Axim x5 porting |
| Zimmerly, Bill | bill@zimmerly.com | Forth programming, Kernel work, interested in the iPaq (not yet purchased). | ||