This includes everything under the the igloocommunity.org domain; wiki, forum, malinglists, git access, downloads…

Sites that are not under the igloocommunity.org domain are not (directly) affected (eg. Igloo Community on Launchpad).

The following data will be made available through other services:

The wiki contents will be partially imported to http://sandbox.movial.com wiki.

Some of the open git repositories will be pushed to https://github.com/igloocommunity/ organization.

We are also looking into getting the mailing lists archived on mailing list archive sites.

The shutdown will happen at 9:00 UTC on 28.6.2013.

Thanks for participating.

A small team of passionate ST-Ericsson people had a dream about the Snowball program. With the help and support of you and the rest of the community we all succeeded together to make the program prosper until today.

In December 2012, STMicroelectronics announced a new strategic plan, where they decided to exit the joint-venture with Ericsson. As a result, STMicrosystems and Ericsson agreed to split the JV ST-Ericsson between the entities. A decision was subsequently made by STMicrosystems to discontinue the Snowball program.

It is with big sadness we must announce the closure of igloocommunity.org and the loss of a European digital platform that aimed to catalyze and boot innovation projects in an open way. We would like to thank all of you that have shared our vision, believed in and contributed to this program. Two special recognitions, for CALAO Systems that made a deep investment into Snowball and for Movial that made the IGLOO Community a living reality. Of course, the Open Source spirit is surviving and we still have the chance to continue to collaborate and share in other places!

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This means that the igloocommunity.org and all of its services will be going down in the near future (few weeks or a month). We will post notices of the exact date later.

However, this doesn’t mean all is completely lost. Linaro is still producing builds and the Igloo community launchpad site is still up, for how long I do not know though.

All the (relevant) open-source parts will be checked into a public git service in order to keep them accessible for all.

There are no plans to preserve mailinglist archives, the wiki or the forum, so if you think there is crucial information you don’t want lost, please feel free to copy them to some other place. However, please do note that the things behind the click-trhough license should still be behind a click-through license (mainly concerns the download area).

As this is only the shutdown of the “official” upkeeping of the community, echoing Philippe’s words I hope it can continue in another form elsewhere.

The details of the source code migration and eventual shutdown will be posted in the following weeks. Thanks to all participants of igloocommunity.org, it has been a fun adventure.

This release also includes support for the display and touchscreen of Tablet Kit, a Snowball-based tablet reference device.

Sailfish OS is based on Mer and Nemo Mobile. Nemo Mobile UI was demonstrated on Snowball a while ago. You can read more about how to get started with Mer in our wiki.

There will be more details posted about using the Application SDK with Snowball later on the Community Projects page.

That repository is now removed completely so head on to the launchpad page for snowball-tools for instructions to take the current repository into use.

Head on to the release page for downloads and read the release announcements from Igloo Community and Linaro.

http://blogs.arm.com/software-enablement/789-snowball-a-catalyst-for-mobile-innovation/

Firefox OS offers  all the power of HTML5 on Snowball. Find the initial release of Firefox OS for Snowball  (working Mali 400 GPU acceleration, HDMI/DVI, Ethernet/WiFi, mouse and pointer cursor) and project information on the IGLOO community project area: http://igloocommunity.org/support/Firefox_OS_on_Snowball

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k1XVkVbyBA

Snowball SDK is offered at an attractive price of 144.84 Euros (182 USD) on a limited quantity, to make the Snowball available to developers!!!

Please click the following link to purchase your Snowball SDK unit:

http://shop.strato.com/epages/61428605.sf/en_GB/?ViewObjectID=11574

So check out the latest release notes for Android ICS and Ubuntu releases for Snowball and then proceed to flash to get rid of a handful of bugs.

This Tizen -port is made available by the hard work of Igloo community members.

For some Tizen+Snowball related action, point your browser to our wiki-pages for more information, download and installation instructions.

You can also find more videos through ST-Ericsson YouTube channel, and more news also through the Igloo Community Google+ -site.

Enjoy!

+Linaro at +ST-Ericsson Partner Zone, Mobile World Congress 2012 performing #Snowball demos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiyD5-pyh3k

Movial at +ST-Ericsson Partner Zone, Mobile World Congress 2012 giving a demo of a nice video conferencing solution using the #Snowball A9500.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBO3clyvVho

Calao Systems at +ST-Ericsson Partner Zone, Mobile World Congress 2012 showing off the #Snowball A9500 and the nice expansion boards and kits that are in development.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cPRS6SJ2qw

The 2012.04 Ubuntu release leaped to Precise Pangolin distribution, which among other things means the builds are now done for the armhf architecture. This should show up as performance improvements here and there.

For Android Ice Cream Sandwich the 2012.04 release is even more thrilling as multimedia acceleration becomes available. This also means we don’t have the “to be included in future releases” section in the full release notes anymore, as all pending major features are now in place. Of course there is lots of work to do still though…

See also the Linaro release announcement as well.

The good news is that we were able to squeeze in an additional audio fix in the list of fixed bugs as well due to the delay.

Other noteworthy fixes include the WiFi and Bluetooth features, though not without few known issues still.

Read the full release notes for further details.

On a related note, there is now a documented work-around for the USB Host issue many have been encountering.

This release includes fixes for WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS as well as an upgrade to Linux kernel based on the recently released version 3.3.0.

Some exiting features just barely missed deadline for this release, but we won’t wait until 2012.04 to deliver them so stay tuned for further announcements in the near future…

See the full release notes as well as Linaro’s release announcement for more details.

Among a list of other bug fixes, the Ubuntu Desktop release brings in kernel based on the latest stable release series, 3.2, and the Android Ice Cream Sandwich release introduces ability use the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) over USB rather than the network.

See the full release notes for Ubuntu and Android Ice Cream Sandwich as well as the Linaro release announcement.

This release includes fixes for the USB host mode, so hurry up and upgrade!

Read also the release notes.

Android
http://releases.linaro.org/12.01/android/images/landing-snowball/
Announcement on Igloo mailing list

Ubuntu
http://releases.linaro.org/12.01/ubuntu/leb-snowball/

Some of the bugs and blueprints in these releases can be found here https://launchpad.net/igloocommunity/trunk/2012.01.

Do not hesitate to go straight for them! This release include lots of fixes, improvements and new features!

This release features upgrade to Android 2.3.5 as well as to Linux Kernel based on version 3.0.1.

Included is also support for new hardware revisions and improved HDMI support.

See also the full release notes

This release features hardware accelerated graphics with the Mali 400 GPU.

For those anxious to see it, you can view the Ice Cream Sandwich in action on ST-Ericsson Snowball board.

See our announcement and the Linaro announcement for more information

Everything should be running smoothly just like it did before the move, but please report any issues you see to the users mailinglist, on the forum or directly by mail.

While the release has a lot of missing things such as HW graphics acceleration, it should nonetheless allow interested people to get a general impression of ICS.

This is a bugfix release for ethernet issues on some boards. See also the full release notes

If we are missing a forum topic, don’t hesitate to suggest it! See you at the forum!

All materials from the Outside the Box Workshop (An introduction to Embedded Linux and Hardware Interfacing Using the Snowball Board) are now available for download.