Talk:Maemo Summit 2008

Help with the program
I'm happy having the role of benevolent dictator for the schedule on Friday 19: I organize the sessions submitted and if someone finds a bug or an improvement just complain and we'll find a solution. However, I really don't want to organize the sessions on Saturday 20, which is purely a maemo.org community day. Can you please find either another dictator or a system to get that sorted out yourselves? I'm asking for a coordinator at Maemo_Summit_2008/Organization. Thanks!--qgil 09:45, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Also, could someone draw nice tables for the schedules? I want to do this since.. but there is always something else taking the time. In principle each day needs a table with 3 columns (3 tracks), being some sessions single cells spanning through the whole row (no tracks, just one session at a time, or breaks). Appreciated. --qgil 09:45, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Lightning sessions
These are really brief sessions of 5 minutes approx i.e. demos. You can propose your own session listing it directly in the schedule once you have confirmed your trip to Berlin. If we get many proposals we will have a second round of lightning sessions on Saturday. Lightning sessions are cool!

We are open to submissions in the form of decent quality videos, to be shown to the audience and uploaded in maemo.org as part of the video materials of the Summit.


 * I'd like to present Intranet search (extended desktop search) from maemo with libferris (http://www.libferris.com/). This would be a quick overview of what is available now and where I'm heading with it. -- Monkeyiq July 19.
 * Now you can list it yourself.--qgil 18:52, 20 July 2008 (UTC)


 * We would like to demonstrate and talk about WorldTV99 (http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/worldtv99/) [bunanson and koos Vriezen] 09.16 16 July 2008 (BST).
 * Now you can list it yourself.--qgil 18:52, 20 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't know if 5 minutes would be enough, but I would like to talk about Rich UIs and the importance of being different and showing the potential of the platform to "Transform" itself in different products, focused in one main use: like our projects: Canola (media player) Carman (onboard computer + car media) and others like remote controls, etc. The real goal is to show why is really needed that some applications "break" the rules and extend the experience showing the power of openness. (this can be a full talk if of interest)
 * 20 seconds are enough for a great ad, 3:30 are enough for a great videoclip and 5:00 are enough for a great lightning session. :)  Find a title and... a name for yourself (are you Marcelo?) Then on Saturday you could organize a full session.--qgil 08:30, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Now you can list it yourself.--qgil 18:52, 20 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I would like to present Illumination, an alternative GUI library, which is used by my applications. 5 minutes is a start (I'm a fast speaker ;-)), but around 20 minutes would be better. Take 5 minutes on friday or can I get 20 minutes on saturday? I could also speak a little bit of my problems porting a non-Gtk based GUI library (togetehr with some hints towards existing APIs). What about that (5 minutes would be not enough again I fear)?--framstag 15:29, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Now you can list it yourself.--qgil 18:52, 20 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Cloud storage: Improve you app by syncing with internet services.  I would love to take 5 minutes to show how easy it is to augment an application to sync with a google service.  I have no doubt I can show off full 2 way sync between Google Documents and "Notes" for the demo all in less than 500 lines of python code. brontide 20:06, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

BoFs and workshops
List below your proposals for activities. They are thought to be highly participative i.e. discussion about an area of the platform, workshops, etc.


 * I want to propose a BoF about the new process for Diablo Extras. (Autobuilder, Promotion, Assistant) --xfade 08:02, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * These look like good topics for the Saturday morning track on packaging and publishing. Please help defining the content of that track.--qgil 21:37, 4 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I would like to talk informally a bit on issues in porting applications to Maemo trying to integrate ways to take advantage of the peculiarities of the Maemo devices. The sessions/bof from mgedmin (about package cleanup), the one from xfade (about the new process for Diablo Extras) and the one from jaffa (about mud) and this one are somehow related. Tracks of Maemo Developments and particularly on the tools provided by the Maemo team (mud, extras repositories, hildon APIs, maemo packaging)--anidel 07:28, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * This is a session for Saturday. Get yourself in the schedule or wait to the Saturday coordinator.--qgil 08:03, 19 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I would like to talk about DSP programming, basically to encourage more people to have a go. I'm not quite sure what the best format for this would be, it's probably expecting too much for everyone to turn up with a computer ready to install a toolchain and get programming (or perhaps not); perhaps an informal (ask questions as we go along sort of thing) with examples of where and how, problems that might be met, how to use the DSP Gateway, data transfer, etc. -Simon Pickering [lardman] 09.16 16 July 2008 (BST).
 * I suggest a lightning session introducing your work (you can add it yourself to the schedule), and move anything else to Saturday.--qgil 08:03, 19 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I'd like to propose a BoF about enlightenment foundation libraries (efl) for maemo, it could be also more broad and cover alternative rich user interface systems, like clutter and qt4/arthur. User:barbieri 20:33, 17 July 2008 (BRT)
 * This is a session for Saturday. Get yourself in the schedule or wait to the Saturday coordinator.--qgil 08:03, 19 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I'd love to see some sort of break-out brainstorming session or round table discussing current status / future desires for the Maemo platform as a whole. I think this crowd would offer much wisdom to the official team. --timsamoff 02:44, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Unsure whether this would fit better on Friday or Saturday...--qgil 18:57, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * What about a single session during the 17:00 slot on Saturday -- a sort of, wrap-up for everyone to come back together and offer opinions? --timsamoff 15:22, 21 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I would like to make a case for embedded (on-tablet) web apps for easy creation of mobile applications for Maemo. With a little bit of python advocacy, a spotlight on the up-and-coming web2py framework, and an example with a little utilitarian app I made and use on my tablet. This is more than a lightning talk but certainly less than an hour - more like 15-20 mins ? --fpp

Travel
Moved to Talk:Maemo_Summit_2008/Travel.

Accommodation
Moved to Maemo Summit 2008/Accommodation.

Recording the Event
See Maemo_Summit_2008/Organization and post your comments / offers for help there.

Advertising
I've submitted the event to the LWN Event Calendar. Is there any other wider advertising we can do? --Jaffa 11:55, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Community
I've got some ideas to allow people attending at Maemo Summit to communicate better. If you have any other idea, please write/discuss here. --Andrea Grandi 10:35, 20 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Prepare a sort of "bagde". A simple card with these informations:
 * Name (nickname)
 * What we do in our life (Developer/Student/Blogger/ecc...)
 * Spoken languages: we could print a flag for each language we speak


 * Prepare a custom Google map with all the hot points in Berlin: c-base, OSiM, all hotels we booked ecc...


 * Create POI's for these place to use on Map software in our tablets