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[Bjoern Hassler <bjoern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Daniel,

Comments inline.

On 1 Jul 2009, at 17:34, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> > * GPRS modem drivers. During a recent trip in Zambia, we had a local
> > GPRS dongle (which was a re-branded Huawei E220), and it wouldn't  
> > work
> > on Ubuntu. Of course, if it was easy to support all possible  
> > hardware,
> > then we'd already be doing this. But perhaps there's a selection that
> > one could make. For instance, in Zambia, there's only a few  
> > telco's, and
> > so there's probably only a few official dongles you can buy. So one
> > could work out what's available locally, and support those.
>
> To me it sounds like a network-manager / mobile-broadband-provider- 
> info
> thing. Maybe you could file a bug report about it? There's others  
> who'd
> benefit from that too.

There was a bug report for this already, so I didn't file another one.  
On a tangent: it does provide a reason why (even when disconnected  
from the internet) one would want to update one's distibution ever so  
often.

> > * Frontlinesms: http://www.frontlinesms.com/ (which is open source)
>
> Do you think you could file a needs-packaging bug for it?
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages tells you how.

Done, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/395886

Btw. some discussion on Frontline SMS and CiviCRM here:
http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php?topic=8625.0

All the best,
Bjoern