LinuxTag 2008

The maemo track of LinuxTag 2008 happened on Thursday 29th 2008 in Berlin, Germany.

Four hours of sessions dedicated to maemo were planned. Each session consisted of 3 short presentations of 10-15 mins to kick off the discussion on each topic.

maemo community update
Where are we & questions and comments...

* Quim Gil - Opening & the Nokia perspective (audio is available) * Gary Birkett aka lcuk - A new developer's perspective on maemo * Niels Breet aka X-Fade - A foot in each side

Cool maemo apps
Some demos + meet the developers

* Urho Konttori - UKMP * Alberto Garcia - Vagalume * Florian Boor - GPE

Cool platform hacks
A couple of demos + meet the developers

* Kees Jongenburger - Mamona & Open Embedded approach * Armin Sauerbier aka pupnik - Emulators anywhere * Kate Alhola - USB & cables do wonders

maemo.org - what next?
Mid term: What Nokia should do + What the community could do

* Marius Gedminas * Simon Pickering aka lardman. Presentation here * Sebastian Mancke

The session was on Thursday afternoon. Afterwards, a rgoup of about 20 people retired to the Cafe am Neuen See for huge pizzas and beers.

Attendees

 * Quim Gil
 * Niels Breet
 * Manrique (not 100% sure)
 * Sebastian Mancke
 * Florian Boor
 * Nick Loeve
 * John Littler
 * Dave Neary
 * Uwe Kaminski
 * Alberto Garcia
 * Marcell Lengyel
 * Ricardo Ribalda

Fall-out

 * Quim announced that the first maemo summit would be taking place on September 19th, after OSiM World (also held in Berlin).
 * He also announced the start of the 100Days and maemo in 2010 brainstorming initiatives, to plan the future of maemo.org with input from the community.