Maemo-Barcelona Long Weekend
A call to all Maemo, Linux and open source lovers:
Maemo-Barcelona Long Weekend December 4-6 @ http://citilab.eu Follow on Twitter: #maebar Event @ Linkedin
Everything started willing to organize a UX meets Code hackfest. Then some local supporters asked about the possibility of having more activities around. Now the schedule is all yours / toda vuestra / tota vostra. See below.
Join the discussion: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=364433
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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
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 - 3rd real project.
- 18:00 - Recap
- 18:30-ish - Enjoy the city!
All the activity happens in a big room (official capacity for 70 people).
The group activityon 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.
There is one main topic for every day:
- Friday is for concepting. Projects selected: liqbase Calendar, FIXME, Video Editor.
- Saturday is for usability. Projects selected: FIXME, FIXME, FIXME.
- Sunday is for graphics. Projects selected: GPodder, FIXME, FIXME.
FIXME = projects need to be proposed in this thread.
Participants
UX specialists willing to help and learn about your specific problems:
- Arabella David, Design & User Experience Program Manager @ Forum Nokia
- Sanna Häivalainen, UX Specialist @ Forum Nokia
- Members of Maemo Devices UX team to be defined
- UX specialists from Digia to be confirmed. See their Maemo Summit slides UI Design of Maemo 5 apps.
Community developers and designers:
- We are working on the list of confirmed participants right now.
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.
But you want more
If you want more, bring more. http://citilab.eu is a great space with rooms of all sizes and an auditorium for 400 people. We are open to suggestions! We have got informal requests about developer training, a N900 presentation, something about localization, an evening together...
We are happy to discuss potential activities with groups like Hispalinux, GNOME Hispano, KDE Hispano, Softcatalà, LUGs, university organizations... Also with you alone if you have a great idea in mind.
Please explain your proposal below linking it to maemo.org profile. Feel free writing in Spanish or Catalan if your activities proposed are targeting local participants.
Manos a la obra: Maemo para desarrolladores
(Get started with Maemo 5 development - activity in Spanish)
Actividad coordinada por Daniel Wilms - Maemo Devices.
Estamos definiendo la agenda y nos adaptamos al interés de la audiencia. Trae tu portátil. Inscripción libre y gratuita.
De momento proponemos estos temas. Añade tu nombre enlazado a tu perfil de maemo.org en los temas que te interesan. Donde tengamos experto y audienca confirmaremos la sesión. Si no hay masa crítica, pues...
- Maemo SDK - puesta a punto - Daniel Wilms.
- Me interesa: Marc Mauri
- Primeros pasos con Eclipse IDE - se busca experto.
- Me interesa: Marc Mauri
- Primeros pasos con Hildon/GTK+ - se busca experto.
- Me interesa: Marc Mauri
- Primeros pasos con Qt - se busca experto.
- Me interesa: Marc Mauri
- De Python a Maemo - se busca experto.
- Me interesa:
- Portar aplicaciones de KDE a Maemo - se busca experto.
- Me interesa: Marc Mauri
- Portar aplicaciones de GNOME a Maemo - se busca experto.
- Me interesa: Marc Mauri
- Home Widgets: native, HTML... - se busca experto.
- Me interesa: Marc Mauri
- Extensiones de Firefox Mobile - se busca experto.
- Me interesa: Marc Mauri
- OpenGL ES en Maemo - se busca experto.
- Me interesa:
Maemo localization?
Barcelona is a great place to discuss about localization, with a multilingual setting and an excellent track of free software L10n projects pushed by local communities.
If there is enough interest we could organize a workshop about the 2010 Objective Community localization taking Catalan as a test case.
A call to the local communities
This is a call to all the local communities interested in free software with a potential interest in Maemo as well. Mozilla, GNOME, KDE, Hispalinux, Debian, LUGs, CreativeCommons... you name it. Esperamos vuestras propuestas / Esperem les vostres propostes.
Attendees
Please keep the list in alphabetical order by first name.
If you have requested invitation and you are waiting for confirmation put "Requested" in the Attendance field.
| Name | Nick | Attendance | Main interests | Coming from | Comments / Comentarios / Comentaris |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Fiestas | afiestasl | Requested | Maemo app dev, KDE | Barcelona, ES | KDE Spain, kbluetooth, solid, Kamoso |
| Aleix Pol | apol | Requested | Maemo app dev, KDE | Barcelona, ES | KDE Spain, KDE Edu, KDevelop, Kamoso |
| Álvaro Villalba Navarro | lostevil | Requested | Maemo applications development | Barcelona, ES | Informatics Engineering Student |
| Andrea Borgia | aboaboit | Requested | Maemo applications development | Bologna, IT | OpenVPN packager |
| Andrea Grandi | andy80 | Requested | Maemo applications development | Valencia, ES | PyMaemo developer and CarrierInformation, QMediaShare/Qt4 libraries |
| Aniello Del Sorbo | anidel | Requested | Maemo applications development | London, UK | author of the Xournal port to Maemo |
| Cornelius Hald | conny | Requested | Maemo applications development | Dresden, DE | Author of Conboy and recently a bit involvement with community translations |
| Daniel Martin Yerga | yerga | Requested | Have fun, be rich and Maemo applications development | Avilés, Spain | My main project is MaStory (formerly WordPy). Be prepared for my bad English. |
| Dave Neary | dneary | Requested | Maemo documentation, usability and design (esp. wrt GNOME) | Lyon, France | Would love to attend, happy to cede my place to a more UX focused person |
| Daniele Maio | b0unc3 | Requested | Maemo applications development | Sicily, IT | Maemo developer |
| Edward Hervey | bilboed | Requested | GStreamer, video editing | Barcelona, CAT | GStreamer, PiTiVi, GNonLin, . |
| Felipe Erias Morandeira | femorandeira | Requested | Maemo development. Interaction design and evaluation of usability. | York, UK | Maemo developer, currently studying a MSc on Interaction Design |
| Gary Birkett | lcuk | Requested | Ideas prototyping. thinking outside the box ! | Manchester England | liqbase cocreation |
| Gil Forcada | gforcada | Planned | Maemo localization, application development and have fun! | Molins de Rei | It's 10 minutes away by train!! |
| Janaina Pilomia | jpilomia | Planned | Parallel tracks, videos, meeting people | Finland | Helping out with stuff |
| Javier S. Pedro | javispedro | Planned | Maemo application development and meeting key people | Barcelona | Author of DrNokSnes, packager of OpenTTD and DOSBox |
| Josep Torra | AD-N770 | Requested | Maemo app dev, GStreamer | Igualada, ES | Author of Tuner Tool and Nethack port. I'll come with my own car. |
| Joshua Richards | joshuamaverick | Requested | Maemo UI Dev, Meeting key people, Designing until I die | Toronto, Ontario | Designed icons, mock ups, wallpapers and elements for maemo |
| Keywan N. Tonekaboni | prometoys | Requested | UI design and testing, new approaches in UX, usability | Bielefeld, Germany | Master student in Media Science (part of it is HCI/UX/Usability), no need for accomodation |
| Manrique Lopez | jsmanrique | Planned | UI design, usability, and meet some friends | Gijon, ES | Only Saturday and Sunday |
| Marc Mauri | opengeekv2 | Planned | Learn maemo5 development and UI design, testing and localization | Barcelona, ES | 2nd year student of IT on FIB, UPC |
| Matteo Nerozzi | Matteone | Requested | Maemo applications development | Bologna, IT | Computer engineer |
| Mike Morrison | mike_morrison | Requested | Maemo application development | Victoria, BC, Canada | quiver and gtktide, forum request |
| Miquel Canes | mcanes | Requested | Maemo applications development | Barcelona, ES | |
| Miguel Peres | mperes | Requested | UX, Graphic and Interaction Design, Rapid Prototyping | Recife, Brazil | Designer in Canola 1, Canola 2, Carman, E-Coach, GPS Camera |
| Patricia Montenegro | patifa | Requested | UX, graphic and interaction design | Recife, Brazil | Interaction designer in Canola 2 and Carman |
| Quim Gil | qgil | Planned | Organization, meeting people | Helsinki | Attendance depends on the additional activities |
| Tamara Baia | tamara | Requested | UX and interaction design | Recife, Brazil | Interaction designer in Canola 1 and 2, Carman |
| Thomas Perl | thp | Requested | Maemo app.dev. / UX testing | Vienna, AT | gPodder, Panucci, Tennix (project links) |
| Tim Teulings | framstag | Requested | Maemo app.dev. / finger friendly UX design / feedback regarding own apps | Bonn, Germany | Author of a number of (smaller) maemo applications (see profile) |
| Marco Trioschi | sugarcult81 | Requested | Maemo applications development | Ravenna, IT | Computer engineer |
| Valério Valério | VDVsx | Requested | Maemo app.dev / UI dev, parallel activities | Lisbon/Faro, PT | Author of BlueMaemo |
| Zaheer Merali | zaheerm | Requested | Maemo app dev, GStreamer | London, UK | GStreamer, Flumotion, Coherence, MaemoSpykee, Nahjul etc. |