Maemo-Barcelona Long Weekend/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
All the activity happens in a big room (official capacity for 70 people).

The group activity on 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.

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 - Everybody: hard work. Other projects feel free to share your plans and problems
 * 18:00 - Recap
 * 18:30-ish - Enjoy the city!

Projects
There are still slots available (marked with FIXME ), so projects need to be proposed in this thread - please help!

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
 * Tuomas Kuosmanen - Senior Designer @ Nokia
 * Adele Simula - UX Graphic Designer, Concepting, Layout Design, Graphics

Developers willing to help
Please list technologies you are using and working with here. This makes it easier for other people to quickly find a person to ask specific technical questions.


 * Thomas Perl: PyMaemo, GTK+, Hildon, PyGTK, Python
 * Andrea Grandi: Pymaemo, Python, UI design concepts
 * Aniello Del Sorbo: GTK, C, Debian packaging. Not an expert.
 * Jesus Sanchez-Palencia: Qt 4.6, libqt4-maemo5 (Qt 4.6 for Maemo5)
 * : 

How to get help
training track]]. Feel free jumping there to ask questions, too!
 * 1) Look up developers who work with the technology you need help with in the list above
 * 2) Approach the developers and ask them for help/advice :)
 * 3) In the neighbor room there will be [[Maemo-Barcelona_Long_Weekend/Formaci%C3%B3n|a developer

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.