Maemo-Barcelona Long Weekend

A call to all Maemo, Linux and open source lovers:

Maemo-Barcelona Long Weekend
December 4-6 @ http://citilab.eu

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

Contents

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: FIXME, FIXME, FIXME.
  • Saturday is for usability. Projects selected: FIXME, FIXME, FIXME.
  • Sunday is for graphics design. Projects selected: FIXME, FIXME, FIXME.

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.

Example template

As a guideline only. Explain yourself in the way your prefer.

  • Purpose of the activity
  • Target audience
  • How many people do you expect (approx)
  • What would you need from us?
  • Could you assume the coordination?
  • Who are you anyway and are you on your own or representing an organization?

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
Aleix Pol apol Requested Maemo app dev, KDE Barcelona, ES KDE Spain, KDE Edu, KDevelop, Kamoso
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
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!!
Javier S. Pedro javispedro Planned Maemo application development and meeting key people Barcelona Author of DrNokSnes, packager of OpenTTD and DOSBox
Keywan N. Tonekaboni prometoys Requested UI design and testing, new approaches in UX, usability Bielefeld, Germany Master student in Media Science
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
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)
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.