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Maemo Summit 2009/Day 3

Revision as of 10:05, 8 September 2009

Maemo Summit day 3, Sunday 11 October

Fremantle Stars showcase

Take a tour of the Fremantle Stars, the best of the best in Maemo community developed applications, featuring:

liqbase

Gary Birkett, liquid at gmail dot com, lcuk on #maemo

Mauku

Henrik Hedberg

OSM2Go

Till Harbaum

OMWeather

Vlad Vasilyev

eCoach

Sampo Savola

Maemo Browser for power users

• Author: Mikko Korpelainen, mikko.korpelainen at nokia dot com
• Intended audience: users
• Talk type: presentation
• Abstract/description

Quick overview of the Maemo Browser design and capabilities. Followed by an in-depth explanation of the end user features and settings the Maemo Browser has.

• Author bio

Mikko Korpelainen is a senior product manager @ Maemo for browser, FlashPlayer, maps and location.

JamMo - Jamming mobile game for children

• Author: Aapo Rantalainen (aapodotrantalainenatgmaildotcom)
• Intended audience: application developers
• Talk type: presentation
• Abstract/description

JamMo is an educational music making game for children at age 3-12. It is targeted for Maemo 5 Fremantle. It uses GStreamer at music backend and Clutter toolkit for graphical user interface. In this talk we present the first version of the application and our experiences on underlying technologies. The development of JamMo is open to everyone who is interested to contribute in any way. For more information see http://jammo.garage.maemo.org/

• Additional Information

Needed equipment: video projector, canvas, speakers.

• Author bio

JamMo is a product of an EU funded UMSIC project. Aapo Rantalainen is the head developer of JamMo.

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.

Maemo documentation co-creation

• Dave Neary, dneary at maemo dot org
• Intended audience: Users
• Talk type: Presentation
• Abstract/description

The stated goal in the 2010 agenda for maemo.org is the co-creation of all Maemo documentation.

This presentation will show the path we have traveled towards this goal so far, especially over the past year, the plans for Fremantle and Harmattan, and most importantly, a call to action showing how you can help out.

• Author bio

Dave Neary has participated in many free software projects over the years. He was release manager of the GIMP, chairman of the GNOME Foundation, and community and product manager for the OpenWengo project. He is currently the maemo.org Docmaster, a role where he works to enable the Maemo community to do great work, and an independent consultant helping companies work with and create healthy communities.

Handheld Glom: Easy database applications

• Murray Cumming <murrayc at openismus dot com>
• 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.

Towards painless and quality translations

• Dimitris Glezos (glezos _at_ indifex _dot_ com)
• Intended audience: developers, translators, docs writers, webmasters
• Talk type: Presentation/BoF
• Abstract/description

Most developers agree: "Translations are hard". And while Maemo's localization is already in place, we've got a long way to maximize our efficiency in reaching a global audience. The challenges: lower the costs for developers, minimize maintenance overheads, provide the translators with an effective, easy-to-use interface for submitting translations to their favorite projects (even if they're hosted on git.. *especially* when they're hosted on git).

Transifex is an open localization platform built for and used by communities similar to Maemo such as Moblin, Fedora and XFCE. This talk will present Transifex, discuss the test results by the Mer Project, and lay down the roadmap for the establishment of an infrastructure able to support the L10n process of Maemo.

• Additional Information

The session will most likely turn into a BoF, bringing together application and platform developers, translators and webmasters/admins.

• Author bio

Dimitris Glezos is the lead developer Transifex. He led Fedora re-engineer its globalization infrastructure allowing for an explosive growth of community translations. He currently serves as Fedora's Board member and Translation Leader. He works at Indifex, providing enterprise-level support on complex localization scenarios.