Maemo Summit 2009/Day 2

= Maemo Summit presentations (day 2) =

PyQt application development on Maemo

 * Author: Attila Csipa, attila77 at talk.maemo.org
 * Intended audience: application developers
 * Talk type: presentation
 * Abstract/description
 * A complete walkthrough of creating applications for the Maemo platform with Python and Qt. The presentation would contain two segments, the first being the 'why' - introduction to underlying technologies, the rationale of using Python and Qt as a development platform on Maemo and a short demo of a few projects built with these tools.
 * The second segment of the presentation focuses on the 'how' in a nutshell: How to setup up a proper PyQt development environment, how to develop most efficiently, how to debug, how to profile and optimize, platform caveats and gotchas, packaging considerations.


 * Author bio
 * Attila Csipa is an Open Source programmer and advocate from Serbia. His Open Source involvements include being a core contributor to web2py, a python based web framework, and contributions to other high profile projects like Mapserver, OpenLayers and NSLU2-linux.