Talk:Maemo Summit 2009/Submissions

Presentations under consideration
Please add comments you have about presentations under consideration here.

Writing plugins for MAFW
I would like input from platform developers as to whether this is a subject they are really interested in. No objections to inclusion if it is. --Dave Neary 13:48, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

I would like to see this. MAFW is a big part of the framework and learning more about it would be good for developers. --baloo 12:50, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Agree with Jamie. Yes for the platform track. -- Valério Valério 08:40, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Wait and see.

PySide: Qt4 For Python And Automatic Bindings Generation
Looks like a good presentation for developers. Qt has become important inside Maemo. --Luciano Wolf 19:26, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Since the proposed talk is related to PySide and the Qt binding generator, I would like to see this as a platform talk. -- Valério Valério 08:47, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Wait and see

From corporations to communities: responsible and effective engagement
Yes, for the users track. Very good topic IMO, but can have a lot of different approaches. I expect something very focussed in the maemo community itself, not only discussing the lessons learned in the past, but also approaching the future, and what can be done for a more effective community engagement. -- Valério Valério 13:46, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Not sure on this one. Admirable subject matter but would it be suitable for a talk and who do we think would attend? --baloo 13:52, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for comments. I can purpose this talk many ways, from 5 minute stimulation talk to as long as the audience can bear . There is a wealth of material but I am focusing on presenting essential concepts (hurdles, solutions, lessons learned, best practices, future suggestions) vis-a-vis Maemo and then including a significant body of reference material in the document (but after the main presentation) for viewers to indulge at their leisure afterward. Oh, and I see the audience as Nokia management  and community leaders for starters... --Randall Arnold 12:03, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

I'm leaning towards yes on this one. For entertainment value if nothing else (Randall, can you be controversial, provocative & entertaining at the same time?). --Dave Neary 19:33, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Midgard2: Content repository for your tablet and the web
The proposal description only explains what is Midgard, isn't clear what approach will be taken in the talk. I would like to see a more detailed description, referring the topics that will be discussed in the talk. -- Valério Valério 13:35, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Agreed. Is this going to be a Midgard talk or how we can do cool stuff with Midgard and the tablets? --baloo 13:47, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

I agree with the call for more detail on what the thrust of the presentation will be. --Dave Neary 19:33, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Hands-on development with Nokia Web Runtime
Big yes, IMO Nokia Web Runtime will very important for the maemo5 future. -- Valério Valério 13:26, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes from me. --baloo 13:47, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

There is a Nokia Web Runtime presentation on Friday already - have you noticed? If so, I defer to your judgement --Dave Neary 19:33, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Developing applications using Plasma
Sitting on the fence for this one. Seems like it could be an interesting talk. Wait and see for me. -- baloo 13:26, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Is this related to maemo or mobile in general ? or only related to the KDE desktop ? -- Valério Valério 17:41, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

This is related to maemo in the sense that it's a library to ease the creation of rich UI applications and developers want to start doing beautiful UIs for maemo. I would say that the fact that it comes to KDE is not as important as the power the library gives to the developer. The fact that it's Qt based also helps as the next maemo release will be Qt based. Important to say that this library works on mobile devices in general too. So answering your question, it's related to maemo and mobile in general. Please, tell me if you have any further questions.

Wait and see from me too. Let's see what the space is like after the next round of acceptances. --Dave Neary 19:33, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Building a Safe Mobile Browsing Experience
Yes from me. -- Valério Valério 08:58, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Let's see what space we have left on Sunday. --Dave Neary 19:33, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

DVCS? git? - How does that work then?
I'm going to suggest that this talk be combined with David's other talk (An Alternative to Autobuilder/Scratchbox) rather than be a separate entity. -- baloo 13:32, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

I agree with Jamie's suggestion. -- Valério Valério 17:48, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Me too. No to this as stand-alone. --Dave Neary 19:33, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Mobile Widget Development and Trends
We already have a Common Web Runtime presentation and also QT ones, what does this presentation cover that isn't covered elsewhere? -- baloo 13:37, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Baloo, This presentation is not about QT or WRT, this is about the Widget in a global term, what is the history, what is web widget, mobile widget, and what are the technology stack available out there for widget development. How Maemo distingushes itself with QT and WRT. This presentation is about, How Maemo caters to both performance hungry developers (Qt) as well as the omnipresent web developers (WRT) as compared to other mobile development environment. -- Rajesh Lal 21:27, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

On the basis of the above information, it seems a interesting presentation for me, I'm going to say yes to this. -- Valério Valério 21:49, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

There is already a presentation on QT development for Harmatan and Maemo on Friday, plus several presentations on developing Qt applications in teh community days, plus the "Hildon toolkit for Fremantle" presentation, plus the Qt mobility talk. That seems like a lot of overlap to me. I vote no. --Dave Neary 19:33, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Dave, This presentation is not about Qt, but is about the overused term Widget itself, along with the current trends in mobile development. Qt and WRT is the Maemo's answer, but why this is better than others needs a context, this presentation covers that, by giving a comparison to Android, Palm Pre, iPhone and Windows Mobile, and by showing the different kinds of technologies used for designing, developing and packaging widgets.-- Rajesh Lal 21:49, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Publishing your software through maemo.org
Yes. --Dave Neary 14:11, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Extras/autobuilder/interfaces round-table
I suggest having this outside the schedule, with a smaller group of people - there are sessions in the schedule for autobuilder & possible replacements, and packaging & extras. I'm interested in other opinions. Do we have room for a 1 hour round-table? --Dave Neary 19:33, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes as a BoF session at Oostelijk Meterhuis (special activities room). -- Valério Valério 16:34, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Maemo Browser for power users
Very interesting for a end users audience, yes from me. -- Valério Valério 21:57, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Overlap with timeless's presentation on browser design, I think. I vote for picking only one of two, and going for timeless's presentation. --Dave Neary 19:33, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

The intended audience and topics of the two presentations are different, timeless's presentation is targeted to developers, and this one to end users. -- Valério Valério 16:39, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Canola: Beyond the media playback
Canola is one of Maemo's flagship applications, it's very hard not to include it in the schedule. I vote yes. --Dave Neary 19:33, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes. -- Valério Valério 16:44, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Hackathon: Integrating Canola with Fremantle
I vote for merging this presentation with the "Canola application and framework" session. No to a stand-alone session. --Dave Neary 19:33, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
 * On second thoughts, we should try to find space for this, but perhaps we need a planning for the small group room, to include this & the extras round-table, and any other workshop/hackathon type sessions --Dave Neary 14:58, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Personalizing your Maemo 5 device
Yes. The topic is one I'm interested in. --Dave Neary 14:57, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Yes. -- Valério Valério 16:44, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Towards painless yet quality translations
Yes, for platform track. --Dave Neary 14:57, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Contributing with Git & Gitorious
No. Too many tools talks already, I think. --Dave Neary 13:36, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Accepted Presentation proposals
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Your application's life from Maemo 4 to Maemo 5 and beyond
I like the subject matter and I can see this talk going down well. Yes from me. -- baloo 13:33, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Well, Although I consider this a interesting presentation, we have to avoid repetition of topics, right now we have 3 accepted presentations that will discuss the same topics proposed here (Adapting GNOME applications to Maemo Fremantle, Hildon toolkit for Fremantle, Modest, email client for Fremantle). So I've to say no. However I would like to see a LT about the Fremantle version of Xournal. -- Valério Valério 18:31, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Indeed, this now sounds quite overlapping with other talks on developing/designing applications for Maemo. I can make it a LT about the issues in porting Xournal to Fremantle, though. That's fine for me. --anidel 18:44, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes for a lightning talk. --Dave Neary 19:33, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Accepted as lightning talk about Xournal(need a new description and title)

Attracting the Masses
Presentation declined. We felt that the content wasn't compelling enough for the presentation, and there will be considerable duplication with presentations during the Nokia day, which will concentrate on cracking the mass market, and during the Fremantle Stars presentations we expect to have. Please add any comments you might have below. Dave Neary 16:45, 1 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Daniel Gentleman, thoughtfix at gmail dot com or thoughtfix anywhere.
 * Intended audience: Developers - but other parties may be interested
 * Talk type: Presentation (req: projector with VGA or DVI input for a Keynote presentation)
 * Abstract/description
 * Tablets have hundreds of applications now - but who are they for? If the Internet Tablets are intended to attract a more mainstream mobile market, the maemo community needs to get in touch with the needs of the target market.
 * The first part of this presentation will give an overview of the most popular applications on competing platforms. This information will be collected through app store sales/download counts, direct communication with a sampling of mobile consumers, and communication with some other high-profile mobile technology journalists. This will include actual applications, connectivity options, peripherals, interface (touch/keyboard/icon/etc) preferences, and related consumer desires.
 * The second part of this presentation will give an overview of the state of the existing maemo platform including commercial partners, independent contributors, and ports of more popular Linux software.
 * The conclusion will analyze mobile consumer desires compared to maemo offerings and, hopefully, give developers ideas on what they can write to make the platform more appealing.


 * Author bio
 * The seeds of TabletBlog started in 2005 when some geek named Daniel Gentleman picked up the original Nokia 770 and started a blog. Since then, I've published thousands of bits of material reaching millions of visitors and video views. So far, I've been present for the Nokia N800 launch in CES 2007, the N810 launch at the Web2Summit, BossaConference 2008 in Recife, Brazil, and the first Maemo Summit.

Challenges of Multimedia within a Freely Distributable Tablet Framework
Seems a little too abstract for a Maemo Summit as I think these issues effect a much wider audience. A good talk but again, in the interests of keeping this a very Maemo Summit focused event, I'm saying no unless a more compelling argument is there. -- baloo 22:48, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Same opinion here, in the current state I say no. -- Valério Valério 09:28, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Same here. No. There are many more compelling Mer presentations possible. --Dave Neary 15:23, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Agreement: No


 * Author: Matthew Craig, mtc in #Mer
 * Intended audience: Users and Platform engineers
 * Talk type: Presentation
 * Abstract/description
 * Multimedia technology has the very real potential of framing the next generation of the web, and it is becoming a primary vehicle for communication worldwide. The Mer Project faces unique challenges in handling this important technology, as it based on embedded architectures and strives to be freely distributable.  For example, license restrictions of MPEG technologies prevent the free distribution of the popular "MP3" audio playback.  With the current and rapid adoption of HTML-5 Video specifications, these difficult challenges are ones that must be addressed immediately.  This talk will review the obstacles, and the practical solutions, to using multimedia within the Mer Project.


 * Author bio
 * See Evangelizing Mer below.

Evangelizing Mer, and Tips on Promoting Your Own Project
Not sure this would stand up as a full session, suited more to a lightning talk? -- baloo 22:48, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Unless the author came up with a bigger plane, I also vote to convert it in a LT. -- Valério Valério 09:33, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

I think an evangelisation presentation might be good. Let's see what else comes along in that style before saying yes. --Dave Neary 15:36, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 * On reflection, I think that this is not a great and potentially interesting session to a large number of people. Voting no. --Dave Neary 13:48, 31 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Author: Matthew Craig, mtc in #Mer
 * Intended audience: Application Developers
 * Talk type: Presentation
 * Abstract/description
 * The Mer Project is a community led tablet framework that offers community support for older Nokia tablet computers. The success of the project relies on the participation of interested technologists worldwide.  Over the last half year, the Mer Project has been able to attract dozens of participants and aligned itself with important free software organizations, such as Ubuntu, openSUSE, and maemo.org, in order to assure long-term success.  Our excited participants are not only maemo.org members but also activists in their community, advocating the software in local technology clubs and events.  Find out the details of these efforts and ways that you can adopt the same policies for your own project, presented by the self-proclaimed Mer Project Chief Evangelist!


 * Author bio
 * Matthew Craig is a volunteer and outspoken representative of the Mer Project. He brings with him the experiences of being a Xiph.org Foundation volunteer and an Ubuntu Member in hopes of helping realize a cross-platform and freely distributable Mer framework.  When he is not discovering the future of micro-sized computing, Matthew handles a technical consulting practice to bring server and storage solutions to enterprise-sized environments.

Creating Python bindings for C libraries in Maemo
I don't think Python bindings for C in Maemo have something special/different than bindings for other linux 'distros'. Since we have a lot of proposed talks for the dev's track, I would prefer to have others instead of this one. Maybe a LT, but IMO, this is a big topic for a 5 min presentation. So is a no for me. -- Valério Valério 11:46, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

There's already a pymaemo presentation, I think that we should leave it at that, and start solliciting presentations to fill gaps we have in the schedule. --Dave Neary 13:48, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * It's been pointed out to me that there isn't. A pymaemo presentation ("RAD for Maemo with PyMaemo" or something like that) would be a pretty cool presentation. --Dave Neary 12:39, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

I proposed this talk for this reason: I think Python bindings are very very important for Maemo. Why? Because if Maemo is only programmable in C language we miss a lot of good programmers who cannot/don't want to use C language. Having more developers (C + Python) means more applications available for Maemo. My talk want to convince people to help PyMaemo team and showing them that it requires only few (almost...) C skills and free time to dedicate to the project. If you find it's not a good reason, I'll accept your decision anyway. I could propose a light talk about python-mafw (the binding I'm working to) but it wouldn't be exactly the same thing. --Andrea Grandi 19:17, 3 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Author: Andrea Grandi (andy80), a.grandi at gmail dot com
 * Intended audience: Application/Platform Developers
 * Talk type: presentation (20-30 minutes)
 * Abstract/description
 * Lot of libraries in Linux and even in Maemo are written in C and are not directly accessible from Python. When a Python binding doesn't exist it could be useful to create one so other Python developers are able to use that library without having to code their application in C language.
 * My intent is to give basic information about how to create Python bindings for a generic C library and show how to generate an automatic build and installation using distutils.


 * Author bio
 * I'm a student of Computer Science at "Università degli Studi di Firenze" (Italy) and currently I'm going to spend a whole year at "Universidad Politecnica de Valencia". I follow Maemo project and the community since the arrive of Nokia 770 device, I ported Spim (a MIPS emulator) on Maemo and helped other developers fixing bugs. Last year I did a light talk at Maemo Summit 2008 about ESBox and Pluthon. Currently I'm doing a work stage at Igalia (a spanish free software company) and I'm working on a Python binding of a Maemo library.

I would love to see this, with all the new libs coming in Fremantle and beyond we need all the help we can get in order to have full Python support. Besides, this really belongs in the platform track which is still mostly empty. --lma 17:25, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Life outdoor event with Maemo

 * Author: Till Harbaum
 * Intended audience: everyone
 * Talk type: lightning talk + outdoor thing
 * Abstract/description
 * Location based services are en vogue. GPXView and OSM2Go are two examples for this and a live outdoor demo can sure be real fun. While OSM2Go has a more serious background something like guided real life mapping (there are sure things close to the event that need mapping/correction) may be cool. GPXView is a fun thing and e.g. a special summit related geocache could be hidden. This needs some planning but would likely even attract some geocachers from that region. Also this could be used for some fancy promo things. There could be prizes t win (to be found in a cache) or Maemo related travel bugs could be started. Even a Maemo "geocoin" could be made for this event.


 * Author bio
 * Till Harbaum is a spare time maemo developer and has been working with maemo since he sold his last palm device. His projects include maemo related hardware hacks, games, the aforementioned GPXView and OSM2Go.

Could be part of the Stars keynote for OSM2Go. --Dave Neary 16:15, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Agree. -- Valério Valério 11:22, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

I like the subject, but I'm not sure it should be grouped with OSM2Go. There is a wider talk here that could look at geocaching, GPX recording for geotagging photo's, e.t.c. --baloo 12:45, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Agreement: Propose Fremantle Stars plenary session, 10 to 15 mins each Session confirmed, at least OMWeather, OSM2Go, liqbase and Mauku will present & discuss the outside event idea with Till

How to speed up your Maemo application development

 * Author: Raul Herbster, raul.herbster at signove dot com
 * Intended audience: Application/Platform Developers
 * Talk type: presentation
 * Abstract/description
 * Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) positively impacts on the development process of maemo applications, increasing productivity, improving standardization and reducing coding error. In addition, IDEs definitely help maemo newbies getting started a lot quicker on technologies by providing templates and useful tools under a consistent and integrated graphical interface. IDE Integration project consists of IDEs (ESbox and PluThon), development environments for different languages (Python and C/C++) and PC-Connectivity, a tool to simplify setting up of communication between the Internet Tablet and the host PC. This presentation shows how IDE Integration can be used to help you to develop Maemo applications (C/C++ and Python).


 * Author bio
 * Raul Herbster has got his BSc. and Master degrees in Computer Science at Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil. He is a key developer and maintainer of the ESbox and PluThon, which are part of the official maemo IDE Integration environment. He is a Nokia Certified Trainer and Forum Nokia Champion since 2008. Currently, Raul is a senior developer of Signove and works on IDE Integration project.

Yes from me although this is a pretty hard-core platform developer talk. ESbox and PluThon are important parts of tablet development and as a lightning session you could 'scratch the itch' of the attendee. Maybe a little more information about how you intend to do this as a full session? -- baloo 22:48, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Maybe. Seems like an application developer presentation to me, rather than platform developer. Let's see what other proposals come in. --Dave Neary 15:36, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Improving the Bluetooth experience on Linux

 * Gustavo F. Padovan.


 * Intended audience: platform developers
 * Talk type: presentation
 * Abstract/description
 * This talk will cover the implementation of the Enhanced Retransmission Mode(ERTM) of operation of the Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol (L2CAP), a Bluetooth Core layer. ERTM provides support for segmentation and reassembly of packets, flow control and error control which means, mainly, support for retransmission of lost packets on Bluetooth Core implementation on Linux for the first time.
 * ERTM makes transfers more reliable, giving us a very low error rate. Also, It is one of the first steps to implement the amazing Alternate MAC/PHY(new Bluetooth 3.0 feature), which allows that Bluetooth uses the 802.11 radio to transport Bluetooth data. I'm doing this work as part of my Google Summer of Code project and I'm being mentored by Marcel Holtmann, the BlueZ maintainer.


 * Author bio
 * Gustavo F. Padovan is 22 years old. Computer Science student at University of Campinas, Brazil. Free Software enthusiastic and member of GPSL (a student group to promote free software at University of Campinas). He is a BlueZ core developer and was accepted on Google Summer of Code 2009 in the same project. He has also been contributing to the Linux Kernel since May 2008. Nowadays, he works at ProFUSION embedded systems.

Not sure this would make for a good presentation. Veering towards a 'no' unless something else comes up to convince me otherwise. -- baloo 13:12, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

No from me too. --Dave Neary 19:33, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Expanding the tablet user base

 * Luc Byhet
 * Intended audience: everyone
 * Talk type: presentation / lessons learned
 * Abstract/description


 * Mobile platforms such as laptops and smartphones got pervasive but unappropriate to specific tasks and jobs. Well, not so specific as it's sometimes hundred of thousands of users. End users started envisioning specialised devices for their own specific fields and tasks. Tablets are a good fit for technical fieldforces, healthcare, trading, law enforcement or interactive guides but yet their use in these areas is not so widespread yet.


 * This talk will be about influencing users and decision makers, stimulating innovation around tablets, meeting users and ensuring that devices get used. A walkthrough of succesful implementations of similar devices will be presented as well as a checklist of what to do to make this happen. This is about tech and business, code and industrial design, and potentially finding a dream job.


 * Author bio


 * I'm working for Accenture Technology Consulting, my job is to evangelize CIOs and decision-makers about open source software, get decisions done and launch projects. I'm a permanent observer of Open Source communities and promoter of their work. I'm currently working on innovative use cases for tablets.

Not sure about the content on this one. Seems too high level and evangelizing for me. -- baloo 13:23, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

If we're going for a presentation in this style, Texrat's is my preference. No. --Dave Neary 19:33, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Texrat's is also my favorite in this topic. No from me. -- Valério Valério 16:31, 1 September 2009 (UTC)