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webOS Talk at VCF East

The Vintage Computing Federation hold a number of events. This year’s VCF East festival will be of interest to fans of webOS phones, tablets and other computing devices of the past.

The festival is held at the InfoAge Science Center, 2201 Marconi Rd., Wall, New Jersey, 07719 and runs over three days from the 12th to 14th of April. The festival includes three elements:

For readers of this blog, representation of webOS devices will be in two of those areas. Jon W of the webOS Archive is attending over the weekend and will give a 50 minute talk at 900am on Saturday the 13th. The consignment shop will have a small selection of webOS devices for those who are interested.

So if you are in the area, why not go along?

If you can’t make it, you can follow along via the VCF video channel and TouchPads are available remotely at Tindie

Discussion is at the VCF East forum thread. You can read more about the InfoAge museum.

Picture Credit: Apc106, Wikimedia Commons.

LuneOS: Help Wanted 2024

The webOS community may be a bit smaller these days but it’s no less devoted to the platform. WebOS Ports is a small team of developers. As you can imagine, it is a few people to maintain a full OS that consists of thousands of components. Things are starting to come together for LuneOS, with the current major rebase and stable release. But we still need your help.

As nice as it is to have some additional folk contributing, developing, and working on issues, we still need more developers to get involved to make this community project really take off.

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The New Palm phone is revealed.

There’s a new Palm phone. It’s due to be released next month.

Now, if you are a long time Palm enthusiast (and reader of this blog) you will no doubt be telling your heart not to beat too quickly because to put it mildly, things have not worked out well in the past.

We already knew that TCL / Alcatel had bought the brand (only). The possibility of a new phone running webOS was dismissed. The speculation on the webOs Nation forum was that we would be seeing a standard Android slab with the Palm logo stuck on, though no one could figure out quite how that would be a success.
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webOS meetup, Chicago, 3rd June

It’s been over a year since there was a webOS meet up in Chicago, but it’s happening next month!

There are many fun things to do in Schaumburg, but the highlight of your visit will of course be the chance to sit down with fellow webOS enthusiasts to enjoy pizza and good conversation.

The 2018 webOS meetup will be on Sunday June 3rd 2018 at 7pm. The place is Moretti’s Ristorante and Pizzeria, 1893 Walden Office Square, Schaumburg, IL 60173.
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