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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.

Name/Nick Email IRC Location What (s)he is working on
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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 ;) . . . and randomly fixing badly coded wikipages :-p
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, [WWW]Cambridge Research Laboratory
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.
[WWW]Clark, Dav 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 Development of [WWW]pocketlinux java/xml application framework. Package maintainer for the pocketlinux ipkgs at http://www.transvirtual.com/ftp/pocketlinux/dists/ipkg src pocketlinux http://www.transvirtual.com/ftp/pocketlinux/dists/testing/ipkg-arm
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 [WWW]XMMS "remote" to control desktop XMMS from a handheld, some hacking on [WWW]Intimate (eg nfsroot) and Ipaqstat for Familiar (it's in Familiar 0.5 and beyond).
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 [WWW]web server via packet modem.
Droessler, Philipp reo@gmx.at kingmob Currently translating handhelds.org to German.
Drokin, Oleg green@linuxhacker.ru green USBNET, FIR, random kernel hacks
[WWW]Dyonisio, Carlos 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 [WWW]BXLUG Bruxelles linux users group and the [WWW]Citizen Network a Belgium wireless group.
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 :-) )
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
[WWW]Hebert, Pierre 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, [WWW]Cambridge Research Laboratory
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 Ported [WWW]APSR and various other programs to ARM.
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
[WWW]Kooi, Koen 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 [WWW]IpkgFind and various small hacks
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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.
[WWW]Leighton, Luke Kenneth Casson lkcl@lkcl.net England [WWW]http://lkcl.net/linux.phones random-hacking-approach port on HTC devices (himalaya, blueangel, universal, hw6915, hermes so far). Insane enough to want to replace what some consider to be a perfectly good OS with what others consider to be an even better one.
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 Working a bit on [WWW]GPE
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. [WWW]The Mas Home
Mason, Christopher cmason@cmu.edu Various, follow link.
Massey, Bart bart@cs.pdx.edu po8 X stuff, IPSEC, build environment
Mastros, James
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)
[WWW]Molton, Ian 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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Oliver, Andy
[WWW]Opdenacker, Michael 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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Packard, Keith
[WWW]Pakula, Marcin 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, [WWW]Cambridge Research Laboratory
[WWW]Paramount, Jorge Gabriel López cronos@olimpo.homelinux.net Cronos [WWW]Gserial-sniffer, Working on repackage Gnome software from Debian Stable ARM packages to [WWW]IPKG packages.
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
[WWW]Potter, Lorn 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.
[WWW]Pouzanov, Vladimir 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 [WWW]Maemo Platform.
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
[WWW]Reiss, Maximilian 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.
[WWW]Riker, Tim 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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[WWW]Saman, Jean-Paul 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, [WWW]Helsinki Institute for Information Technology ARU; Java, [WWW]Kaffe, XML-documents [WWW](X-Smiles)
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 [WWW]Pocket Tcl Environment
[WWW]Seiler, Don 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.
[WWW]Sowan, Nabeel nabbe at digifirm dot se Funklord Stockholm, SE Linux for HTC-BlueAngel.
Sparks, Steve ssparks@sss.org ssparks Linux/Handhelds/Wireless Collector and Experimenter
[WWW]Sprackett, Zac 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, [WWW]Cambridge Research Laboratory
[WWW]Sundaram, Rajesh 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 [WWW]hacks
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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.
[WWW]Tse, Alastair liquidx
[WWW]Turner, Doug dougt at meer dot net San Jose, California USA Minimo project owner.
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[WWW]Venkatachalam, Adinarayanan avenkat2@unity.ncsu.edu Working on a [WWW]course project to port Linux onto iPAQ H3975.
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
Walters, Ian
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 [WWW]NonToxic USB support in bootldr
Wittams, Robert
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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[WWW]XIA Projects info@xiaprojects.com Univerity students developers, iPaq 38xx with CF Boot, develop sw & boot scripts.
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[WWW]Zabolotny, Andrew 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).