[OUT?] Help with Android?

[Amichai Rotman]

So, how do we start the list?

Can we host it on HUJI servers?

I am reluctant of using those public list servers (like Yahoo! Groups) - is
there a way to start an Israeli specific list on Google Groups?

Thanks

Amichai.

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On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 12:14, Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012, Erez D wrote about "Re: [OUT?] Help with Android?":
> > I bet most of the people on this list have a fridge. I have a fridge
> > question .... (just kidding, couldn't help it).
>
> The difference being that there is (I believe) a large intersection
> between the people interested in Linux internals and in Android
> internals, while the intersection with people interested in Fridge
> internals is, I belive, lower.
>
> > I am an android user/developer as part of my job. however, android is not
> > linux. at least not gnu/linux, and should have it's own list.
> >...
> > anyway, i would be happy to join an android related israeli mailing list.
>
> I agree that there should be an Android mailing list, and would also be
> happy
> to join it if someone creates one.
>
> I'm not sure, though, how in this decade we can justify why an *English*
> (not Hebrew) mailing list (not forum or some facebook crap) for *Israelis*
> (not for the whole world) is what we need, and who will it be for (Just
> developers and aspiring developer? Or everyone who yesterday got an Android
> phone as a default through some deal? I would rather it be defined as
> the former - a list of (at least) aspiring developers.)
>
> > btw, if one is an app programmer, one does usually not touch anything
> > related to linux, it's just java and special android api. (rarely use
> NDK).
>
> This is almost like saying that Emacs questions are not related to
> Linux, because it's just Lisp and special Emacs APIs... While Android is
> very different from "GNU/Linux", it is Linux with a diffferent set of
> applications, and much of the philosophy of its developers (although
> unfortunately not all of it) is similar to that of Linux developers.
>
> > i guess there should be more than one. IAAD - israeli android app devel,
> > and IAD - israeli android devel (create your own android distro).
>
> Why this separation into various kinds of developers? It's almost like
> separating linux-il into separate mailing lists for Linux application
> developers and Linux kernel developers, and perhaps further into Fedora
> users, Ubuntu users, game players, and other subpopulations. I don't
> think there's enough members or list traffic to justify such a division,
> yet.
>
>
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> 2012,
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