Maemo Summit 2009/Submissions

= Talk submissions for Maemo Summit 2009 =

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''Maemo Summit community content committee: ''
 * Dave Neary
 * Jamie Bennett
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 * Author name and contact details
 * Intended audience (users/application developers/platform developers)
 * Talk type (presentation/lightning talk)
 * Abstract/description
 * Abstract goes here. A two paragraph overview of the proposed talk content is sufficient.


 * Additional Information (optional)
 * Additional information on extra equipment you might need or something else goes here


 * Author bio
 * A short (1 paragraph) note about who the author is goes here

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Go-to market opportunities for mobile application developers

 * Author: Boaz Zilberman, co-founder and Chief Architect of fring.
 * Intended audience: application developers
 * Talk type: presentation
 * Abstract/description
 * I will be happy to present the go-to-market activities fring is doing to publish our application on the many platforms we work on - Linux, WinMobile, Symbian, Android, J2ME and iPhone. My intention is to stimulate an open discussion so we, as a community, can provide better ways to promote the platform benefits to ordinary users rather than the early adopters.


 * Author bio
 * Boaz Zilberman is a co-founder of fring - a VoIP and IM mobile service with million of active users worldwide. I am responsible for product definition and relations with terminal vendors.

liqbase-playground

 * Gary Birkett, liquid at gmail dot com, lcuk on #maemo
 * Intended audience: all
 * Talk type: presentation
 * Abstract/description
 * working on the new liqbase framework, where I am upto, where I would like to get to, how i see it evolving and how it can be even better.


 * Author bio
 * visual basic developer for the last 10 years, dreamt about handhelds and touching my own code.

came to maemo start of 2008 with my n810, set myself a target: to make full use of the hardware and to find out if what I've been daydreaming about was possible. surprised by how far I have come :)

Canola application and framework for rich GUI

 * Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri (http://blog.gustavobarbieri.com.br/contact/)
 * Intended audience: Application Developers
 * Talk type: presentation
 * Abstract/description
 * Canola is a fancy media center, with a rich graphical user interface designed with touch screen in mind. More than a great application, it is a great framework as well, enabling extending Canola or creating similarly rich programs like Carman or your own! Initially developed by Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia (INdT) in Brazil it was released as GPLv3 and community start to build around it. Today we have more companies supporting the development, the software was ported to other platforms like Ubuntu and OpenMoko SHR. Moreover, 5 of 10 Maemo's Google Summer of Code projects are around Canola, from media extensions like Picasa integration to non-media related as Remember the Milk (To Do list) and Bittorrent.
 * The framework behind Canola is called Python-Terra, which will be presented simultaneously. A brief overview of its components, followed by explanation of its plugin system will serve as base of understanding of Canola application. Real examples of extensions and new application will be demonstrated as result.


 * Author bio
 * Gustavo lead the development of Canola1 and designed and implemented Canola2 together with co-workers at INdT. Now he runs a company that does software development and services, among them Canola2 development.

Maemomm: Maemo with C++ and a Gtkmm flavour

 * Author: David King, davidk at openismus dot com, amigadave on IRC, http://amigadave.blogspot.com
 * Intended audience: application developers/platform developers
 * Talk type: presentation
 * Abstract/description
 * Maemomm is a set of C++ bindings for Maemo libraries. With the bindings, C++ programmers can use the language features that they are familiar with, and combine them with the underlying features of GTK+ and Maemo. Maemomm allows greater type-safety, use of C++'s object-orientation features and simpler reference-counting semantics.
 * The advantages of the C++ API will be discussed, and demonstrated with short code examples. Comparisons to the underlying C API will be made, as well as to other toolkits. For more information see https://garage.maemo.org/projects/maemomm/


 * Author bio
 * David began working as a software developer for Openismus at the start of 2009. He works on Maemomm development, as well as other projects that are too exciting to talk about.

Evangelizing Mer, and Tips on Promoting Your Own Project

 * 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.

Hildon toolkit for Fremantle

 * Authors: Alberto Garcia, Claudio Saavedra
 * Intended audience: Platform/Application Developers
 * Talk type presentation
 * Abstract/description
 * This talk will describe all widgets introduced in Hildon 2.2, explaining all the new features and use cases, the reasons why some standard GTK+ widgets are not particularly suited to small devices and the solutions that Hildon 2.2 brings to solve these problems.


 * This is a major upgrade of the toolkit. Among several style changes, this Hildon release is for the first time specifically designed to be finger friendly, introducing a panning container (kinetic scrolling) and a new range of selectors among other things.


 * Author bio
 * Alberto Garcia loves computers since he got his first Sinclair ZX Spectrum. In the late 90s he began using GNU/Linux and in 2001 he co-founded Igalia, a Galicia-based free software company. He's currently working on the new version of the Hildon toolkit for the new release of Maemo, codenamed 'Fremantle'. Besides programming, Alberto also loves cinema, music and going to the beach.
 * Claudio Saavedra is a chilean Software Engineer, working at Igalia since 2008. He got involved in the GNOME project back in 2005 and is one of the developers of the Eye of GNOME Image viewer. Currently, he is also working in Maemo 5, codenamed 'Fremantle', developing the Hildon library and also maintaining other parts of the toolkit stack.

Modest, email client for Fremantle

 * Authors: Sergio Villar, Jose Dapena
 * Intended audience: users, application developers
 * Talk type: presentation
 * Abstract/description
 * Modest is a modern e-mail client designed for mobile and embedded devices, that focuses on providing a simple user interface, even when it offers advanced e-mail functionality. It's the default e-mail client for the Nokia N810 device.


 * In this presentation we will show the new Hildon 2.2 frontend, and talk about the interesting challenges faced to improve the user experience of Modest using the new Maemo 5 platform. How we tried to simplify the UI overhead in the old N810 Maemo frontend, splitting Modest in multiple views and aggressively simplifying the actions exposed to user.


 * Author bio
 * José, who holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of A Coruña, is one of the founding members of Igalia. Now he is involved in the development of projects using Gtk/Gnome technologies and, in particular, Tinymail. He is also one of the initiators of Gnome Build Brigade. Currently, he's a member of Modest development team, and also a regular contributor to Tinymail.


 * Sergio joined Igalia in 2003 after getting his Degree in Computer Engineering, and is now a proud stakeholder of the company. He has been involved in Gnome/Maemo developments since then. Sergio is currently co-maintainer of the Modest email client along with José. After more than two years of contributions to Tinymail, he became a co-maintainer of the project in 2009.

Adapting GNOME applications to Maemo Fremantle

 * Author: Joaquim Rocha, jrocha at igalia dot com
 * Intended audience: Application Developers
 * Talk type: presentation
 * Abstract/description
 * Porting GNOME applications to Maemo Fremantle is not just recompiling and make it run on the device. For many applications, a considerable adaptation in they're UI is needed.


 * I'm proposing a presentation having as its base the port of the Eye of GNOME for Maemo, explaining the intentions behind each change and the usage of Hildon 2.2 widgets to accomplish those.


 * Author bio
 * Joaquim Rocha has worked from web programming to OCR, desktop and mobile programming and is a proud Open Source an Linux advocate. He's now doing all this while working for Igalia. When he's not coding he's listening to metal, watching movies, playing console games or having a nice cold beer if the weather demands so.

Mer: A year after

 * Carsten Valdemar Munk (carsten.munk at gmail dot com, also known as Stskeeps)
 * Intended audience: Users, application developers, platform developers
 * Talk type: Presentation
 * Abstract/description
 * October'09 is a year after the thought of reconstructing Maemo was first proposed. The thoughts manifested themselves in the Mer project - originally only a proof of concept project, but with the announcement that Nokia would not bring Fremantle to the Nokia N8x0s the project got stronger community support. This talk is about the challenges and the accomplishments we've had in the project in the last year. It will also include thoughts on the future of Mer and a call for both community and Nokia to take a radical approach with Harmattan in terms of community involvement.


 * Author bio
 * Carsten (Stskeeps) is known as the primary facilitator of the Mer project and has successfully brought together developers, testers, artists, translators and other groups within both maemo.org and other device communities, to create Mer, a Fremantle community variant. He is currently finalizing his masters degree in computer science and has also been involved in other projects within the community such as Deblet, a Debian port.

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.

Creating Python bindings for C libraries in Maemo

 * 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.

Developments in The Qt WebKit Integration

 * Author: Kenneth Rohde Christiansen kenneth.christiansen at openbossa dot org
 * Intended audience: Application/Platform Developers
 * Talk type: Presentation
 * Abstract/description
 * The Qt WebKit Integration provides a powerful framework to seamlessly integrate web technologies into future Maemo applications, where web content can interact with Qt components. This presentation introduces the QtWebKit APIs, the underlying engine and new features coming in future releases.


 * Author bio
 * Kenneth Christiansen has many years experience with opensource software, and worked on projects such as GNOME, intltools, Canola, and Colligo. He also organized the 2001 GUADEC conference in Copenhagen. Today Kenneth works at the OpenBossa labs at the Nokia Technology Institute in Brazil, where he is currently involved with developing next generation userfaces as well as working with web technologies as part of the Qt WebKit team.

Development Nirvana: How Maemo Application Development Should Be

 * Andrew Flegg [mailto:andrew@bleb.org ]
 * Intended audience: application developers
 * Talk type: Presentation
 * Abstract/description:
 * In the words of Steve Ballmer, the key to a platform is "developers! developers! developers!" However, Maemo SDKs have a painful install process, supported only on x86 Linux with primitive tooling.
 * This talk will demonstrate how much better Maemo development can be; from cross-platform, easy-to-use Maemo SDKs to a brief runthrough of what a real, professional development environment is like. The author will also describe his perfect Maemo development environment: and whether it's something we're ever likely to see.


 * Author bio:
 * Andrew Flegg has been a professional software developer for over 15 years and is currently lead architect and developer for his employer's next generation application. He has been a Maemo user since the 770 launch and has been elected to the Maemo Community Council twice.

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.

Writing plugins for MAFW

 * Author: Iago Toral - itoral at igalia dot com
 * Intended audience: platform and application developers.
 * Talk type: Presentation (Tutorial)
 * Abstract/description
 * A tutorial on how developers can write source and renderer plugins for the Media Application Framework (MAFW). The audience will learn how to develop new plugins that provide access to new sources of media content or implement different rendering backends and how they can use these plugins from their own media applications. The tutorial will also include an introduction to MAFW for those not familiar with the framework.


 * Author bio
 * I am a Software Engineer at Igalia and user of the Gnome Desktop and Linux OS for quite many years. Currently I am most interested in Multimedia, specially around MAFW, for which I am one of the main developers, and GStreamer.

Creating packages for the Maemo platform

 * Jeremiah C. Foster
 * Intended audience -> application developers and platform developers
 * Talk type -> presentation
 * This talk will go through packaging from beginning to end providing a template to use. While one cannot go into every corner case, we can cover the entire process for the average package. In this case we will describe the process for packaging a python app since those are quite common on the maemo platform.


 * Author Bio


 * I am the current "debmaster" at maemo.org and have been working with the debian perl team for several years now. I have been using debian for nearly a decade.

GUPnP and Rygel: The UPnP/DLNA solution for Maemo

 * Author: Zeeshan Ali, Lead-Developer at Maemo Devices, Nokia.
 * Intended audience: everyone
 * Talk type: presentation
 * Abstract/description
 * I will be introducing the work we have been putting up for the past two and half years to provide a complete well-documented solution for UPnP needs of Maemo and GNOME (Mobile) in general.


 * Author bio
 * Zeeshan Ali is a Lead Developer at Nokia Maemo Devices in Helsinki, Finland and a GNOME developer. He started as a GStreamer plugin and application developer and got his first share of fame in the GNOME community for his video-whale project. For the past two year, he had been obsessed with UPnP/DLNA and in turn the GUPnP and Rygel projects. Thanks to Nokia, he now work full-time on Rygel.

Handheld Glom: Easy database applications.

 * Murray Cumming 
 * Intended audience: application developers
 * Talk type: Presentation
 * Abstract/description:
 * Many custom Maemo applications just need the user to navigate through some data and enter new information. Glom lets you quickly throw together a database structure and UI layout, providing a Maemo UI with no coding. You can then use Python for anything more complicated, though Glom itself already supports features such as related records, related fields, related choices, field lookups, calculated fields, and translated UIs.


 * Author bio:
 * Murray Cumming runs Openismus GmbH in Berlin and Munich. We work on Maemo's development platform and applications and maintain the GNOME C++ API (gtkmm). When we have extra time we work on Glom, gradually getting it ready for real-world use.