The Silicon Valley Homebrew Mobile Computer Club is a club that furthers open phone development.
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The club was founded in May 2006 and held its inaugural meeting at Google's Mountain View Campus. Matt Hamrick, the club's founder, indicated the club's objectives as "building a better cell phone."[1] The club aims to achieve their objective by creating a "complete open phone", a combination of open source software and hardware designs intended to give advanced end users the tools to build their own mobile phone.[2] It is considered notable for its similarities to the Homebrew Computer Club,[3] an organization which counted Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs as members and was widely considered influential in the development of early personal computers.
The club is a continuation of the "open phone movement," identified by TuxPhone project manager Surj Patel.
Early prototypes were demonstrated at a club meeting and on DL.TV,[4] while current projects are described on the club's wiki.