Samsung Galaxy S2, collective donation?

[Johan Svensson]

Hello again,

I am sorry for the long-lasting silence. It has been an administrative 
process to be the legal owner of the phone with the right to donate it, 
but now the mission is accomplished. PaulK now has the phone and has 
already started getting his hands dirty.

The most important thing for me was to have the phone sent to a 
qualified Replicant developer. That is by now done. The second most 
important thing is to get some help with the finances. I have payed a 
total of SEK 2500 for the phone and 150 for shipping (Swedish mail 
delivery is bloody expensive). That is about EUR 295.

So now I am asking for some support. If I remember correctly, we were 
five potential supporters (me and Paul included) to this project back 
when I presented the idea. That is EUR 60 each. If you still have 
possibility to make a part of this collective donation, please send it 
to my paypal account (as GIFT). If paypal is not an option, we can 
discuss alternatives privately.

paypal.js at crypt.se

Please drop a mail to this list when you decide to donate! In case there 
would more than five donors, I can either pay back parts to everyone or 
donate it to the Replicant project.

Lastly, good luck with the Samsung Galaxy S2 porting of Replicant! It is 
a damn good device, and all we need now is to set it free.

Best Regards,

Johan Svensson

On 03/22/2012 02:53 PM, Johan Svensson wrote:
> This is great news!
>
> Paul has put much effort in the Nexus S port with good success. I use it on
> a daily basis. However, I find the SGS2 to have better hardware and design.
> And the battery life is around two days with stock system for tasks which
> consumed the HTC Hero battery in 18 hours. A Replicant port would be
> amazing.
>
> I hope to finish the purchase as soon as possible. Unless I have
> misunderstood something in the deal, it will be done by the end of this
> month. I will ensure to successfully buy it before I collect sponsoring.
>
> More sponsors are welcome! Currently we are four, me included, which means
> around EUR 70 each. One more means EUR 55, and so on.
>
> Johan
>
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:53:38 +0100, PaulK<paulk at paulk.fr>  wrote:
>> Le lundi 19 mars 2012 à 21:17 +0100, Johan Svensson a écrit :
>>> However, we have to wait for details. It is currently a lively
>> discussion
>>> at IRC on who is going to maintain an SGS2 port. The conclusion so far
>> from
>>> what I have understood is that the main developers have devices enough
>> to
>>> fill their time and what is needed is more developers.
>> Yes, that is definitely the conclusion. Though, we (at least I) may have
>> some time during summer break (which is 2-month long): that means I
>> could do serious work about the galaxy s 2 port at this moment.
>>
>> Galaxy S2 is a quite expensive device, and this is a good occasion to
>> get a device for a price lower than usual.
>>
>> So if you decide to send us the device anyway, I want to make it clear
>> that I'm not likely to be able to work on it before that time.
>>
>>> Good to know that this idea is supported by the community anyway. Let us
>>> hold for a moment and see where this leads.
>>
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