Topic: What Can I do to help Keep Chumby Alive?

I'm only a lady w/out much tech experience but I'll be happy to pitch in to keep Chumby on Life Support till a matching life saving transplant can be found <3

Re: What Can I do to help Keep Chumby Alive?

I also want to help any way possible.  I can donate videos!

Re: What Can I do to help Keep Chumby Alive?

At the moment, the best way is to stick around and keep informed as we post status updates.

It's also helpful, if you can, to test the new systems as we bring them up.

Re: What Can I do to help Keep Chumby Alive?

Same here, I'm willing to pitch in and help out however I can.
I've got some front-end experience and I'm a Product Manager by day.

Re: What Can I do to help Keep Chumby Alive?

I'm willing to help as well.  I'm an IT specialist (though I have no real product development experience for a product like chumby).  Pretty much I manage an exchange server and some IIS and data servers as well as SQL server.  I also support end users and generally work to keep the IT and phone systems functional.  Some background in industrial electronics.
 
Has there been thought of creating a virtual chumby app that could then be installed on phones or even made available to web publishers?  It might be a BIG reach but imagine being able to run your "vChumby" on your Google or Yahoo home page.  Sell ad space to help cover the cost?  Is there a way to help out Duane with contributions? I can't donate a lot, but I am willing to donate some. 

Thank you Duane!

(And my wife wants her cat-clock back, so you have her support as well.)

Re: What Can I do to help Keep Chumby Alive?

Flame wrote:

(And my wife wants her cat-clock back, so you have her support as well.)

FYI the cat clock that also plays tic-tac-toe and has timers is available on Zurk's firmware, so if that's what she's wanting you could give it back to her by installing that on a USB disk.  You will have to play around with the configuration files to remove the other widgets though, but it is possible.

Re: What Can I do to help Keep Chumby Alive?

songmaster wrote:
Flame wrote:

(And my wife wants her cat-clock back, so you have her support as well.)

FYI the cat clock that also plays tic-tac-toe and has timers is available on Zurk's firmware, so if that's what she's wanting you could give it back to her by installing that on a USB disk.  You will have to play around with the configuration files to remove the other widgets though, but it is possible.


just lock it on that widget - no tech savvy required smile

Re: What Can I do to help Keep Chumby Alive?

I can donate money and I'd love to test new systems. smile

Re: What Can I do to help Keep Chumby Alive?

scruffy1 wrote:

just lock it on that widget - no tech savvy required smile

Unfortunately when I did that there were some occasions when it got unlocked.  I suspect the Control Panel was crashing and got restarted, causing the channel to reload without the lock.  My Infocast-8 would break out more often than the Chumby-One but they did both do it, hence my suggestion that adjusting the channel definitions is probably necessary.

Re: What Can I do to help Keep Chumby Alive?

I would gladly pay $5 bucks a month to use chumby. I mean it's awesome that it's free but if the case is we need to pay the bills or there is no chumby I would gladly fork over $5 a month.

Re: What Can I do to help Keep Chumby Alive?

Duane,
Just thought I would let you know that the video on chumby.com is great.  I don't have as much IT as FLAME but am also in the computer customer service arena.  Most of what is posted is over my head.  I applaud (sp) your efforts and those of your other volunteers (i.e. Doktor Jones).  I would agree a monthly (paid annually) would definately be worth it.  I would be willing to test apps as a clumsy user (that one is easy).
Please point me to the post(s) on SSH and trying to get your profile off of the Chumby.

Re: What Can I do to help Keep Chumby Alive?

I think this thread might be what you're looking for... unfortunately it is about getting your profile from chumby.com, and user/device profiles aren't currently available (I do believe Duane has them squirreled away somewhere for when he starts restoring functionality though).

Or were you talking about retrieving cached widgets?