Maemo-Barcelona Long Weekend

A call to all Maemo, Linux and open source lovers:

Maemo-Barcelona Long Weekend December 4-6 @ http://citilab.eu Registration is free but mandatory for planning purposes: REGISTER Follow on Twitter: #maebar Event @ Linkedin

Everything started willing to organize a UX meets Code hackfest. Then some local supporters asked about the possibility of having more activities around. Now the schedule is all yours / toda vuestra / tota vostra. See below.

Join the discussion: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=364433

UX meets Code
About 50 community developers and user experience professionals work together during 3 days.

3 goals

 * Improve the usability and visual appeal of great Maemo apps.
 * Improve the UX documentation for Maemo developers.
 * Get a critical mass of people interested in pushing forward UX meets Code activities online and face to face.

Way of working
Every day has a similar flexible structure:
 * 9:00 - Starting with a briefing about the topic: presentation + Q&A.
 * 11:00 - About 2h discussion and collaboration on a real project.
 * 13:00 - Lunch
 * 14:00 - 2nd real project.
 * 16:00 - 3rd real project.
 * 18:00 - Recap
 * 18:30-ish - Enjoy the city!

All the activity happens in a big room (official capacity for 70 people).

The group activityon a project can happen in one side and you can be doing your own thing on the other side if you prefer. Free flow!

You should be able to find some time during the day to get some opinions and help from one of the experts about specific details of your project.

There is one main topic for every day:
 * Friday is for concepting. Projects selected: liqbase Calendar, FIXME, Video Editor.
 * Saturday is for usability. Projects selected: FIXME, FIXME, FIXME.
 * Sunday is for graphics. Projects selected: GPodder, FIXME, FIXME.

FIXME = projects need to be proposed in this thread.

Participants
UX specialists willing to help and learn about your specific problems:
 * Martin Schuele - Principal UI designer for N900
 * Mox Soini - Interaction Designer, Concepting
 * Steffen Halme - Graphic Designer specializing in icons
 * Martin Gimpl - Graphic Designer, Concepting, Transistions, Graphics
 * Jussi Maaniitty - UX Management, Concepting
 * Juha Vartiainen (unconfirmed) - Interaction Design, Concepting, Application UI design
 * Jaakko Viitanen (unconfirmed) - Interaction Design, Concepting, Application UI design
 * Arabella David, Design & User Experience Program Manager @ Forum Nokia
 * Sanna Häivalainen, UX Specialist @ Forum Nokia

Community developers and designers:
 * We are working on the list of confirmed participants right now.

Interested?
If you want to be invited please provide in this thread:


 * Your maemo.org profile making sure that there one can find info about or links to your current projects and your interests in Code or UX.
 * If you are more into Code, a link to the app hosted in maemo.org, either under Fremantle packages or OS2008 Downloads.
 * If you are more into UX, a link to wherever your work can be seen.

Forward this to your colleagues working on great stuff!

For budgeting and also practical purposes we will keep the number of participants around 50 people even if we get more requests. The criteria will be defined more or less by fast response, travel costs, community involvement and of course Maemo excellence in Code or UX.

But you want more
If you want more, bring more. http://citilab.eu is a great space with rooms of all sizes and an auditorium for 400 people. We are open to suggestions! We have got informal requests about developer training, a N900 presentation, something about localization, an evening together...

We are happy to discuss potential activities with groups like Hispalinux, GNOME Hispano, KDE Hispano, Softcatalà, LUGs, university organizations... Also with you alone if you have a great idea in mind.

Please explain your proposal below linking it to maemo.org profile. Feel free writing in Spanish or Catalan if your activities proposed are targeting local participants.

Manos a la obra: Maemo para desarrolladores
(Get started with Maemo 5 development - activity in Spanish)

Actividad coordinada por Daniel Wilms - Maemo Devices.

Estamos definiendo la agenda y nos adaptamos al interés de la audiencia. Trae tu portátil. Inscripción libre y gratuita.

De momento proponemos estos temas. Añade tu nombre enlazado a tu perfil de maemo.org en los temas que te interesan. Donde tengamos experto y audienca confirmaremos la sesión. Si no hay masa crítica, pues...


 * Maemo SDK - puesta a punto - Daniel Wilms.
 * Me interesa: Marc Mauri, Josep Roura
 * Primeros pasos con Eclipse IDE - se busca experto.
 * Me interesa: Marc Mauri, Josep Roura, Manrique Lopez
 * Primeros pasos con KDevelop - KDE España
 * Me interesa:
 * Primeros pasos con Hildon/GTK+ - Alberto Garcia
 * Me interesa: Marc Mauri, Josep Roura, Manrique Lopez
 * Primeros pasos con Qt - se busca experto.
 * Me interesa: Marc Mauri, Josep Roura, Manrique Lopez
 * De Python a Maemo - se busca experto.
 * Me interesa: Manrique Lopez
 * Portar aplicaciones de KDE a Maemo - KDE España
 * Me interesa: Marc Mauri
 * Portar aplicaciones de GNOME a Maemo - Felipe Erias
 * Me interesa: Marc Mauri
 * Home Widgets: native, HTML... - se busca experto.
 * Me interesa: Marc Mauri, Josep Roura, Manrique Lopez
 * Extensiones de Firefox Mobile - se busca experto.
 * Me interesa: Marc Mauri, Manrique Lopez
 * OpenGL ES en Maemo - se busca experto.
 * Me interesa:

Maemo localization?
Barcelona is a great place to discuss about localization, with a multilingual setting and an excellent track of free software L10n projects pushed by local communities.

If there is enough interest we could organize a workshop about the 2010 Objective Community localization taking Catalan as a test case.

A call to the local communities
This is a call to all the local communities interested in free software with a potential interest in Maemo as well. Mozilla, GNOME, KDE, Hispalinux, Debian, LUGs, CreativeCommons... you name it. Esperamos vuestras propuestas / Esperem les vostres propostes.

Attendees
Please keep the list in alphabetical order by first name.

If you have requested invitation and you are waiting for confirmation put "Requested" in the Attendance field.