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Maemo Summit 2009/Submissions

Revision as of 20:39, 6 July 2009

Talk submissions for Maemo Summit 2009

Please add your submission to this page at the bottom. Have a look at the Call for content for some guidelines.

Please follow the template for each presentation that you would like to submit. Thanks!

Maemo Summit community content committee:

• Dave Neary
• Jamie Bennett
• Valério Valério

Submission template

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Talk Title Goes Here

• 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

Talk Submissions

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 :)

Maemo Co-Creation Working Session

• Author: Jussi Mäkinen (http://twitter.com/luovanto)
• Intended audience: Users
• Talk type: Workshop
• Abstract/description

Maemo co-creation workshops are annual sessions where selected lead users + Maemo product managers, designers and marketeers together imagine the future use-cases for Maemo Devices.

Maemo co-creation 2009 will now open up for the Maemo community by presenting the workshop results on the Saturday showcase and crafting the ideas forward with anyone willing to participate on our Sunday working session.

• Author bio

Jussi Mäkinen is responsible for consumer marketing & co-creation activities @ Maemo Devices. Cool stuff to put it shortly.

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@openismus.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.

Challenges of Multimedia within a Freely Distributable Tablet Framework

• Author: Matthew Craig, mtc in #Mer
• Intended audience: Users and Platform engineers
• Talk type: Presentation
• Abstract/description

Multimedia technology has the very real potential of framing the next generation of the web, and it is becoming a primary vehicle for communication worldwide. The Mer Project faces unique challenges in handling this important technology, as it based on embedded architectures and strives to be freely distributable. For example, license restrictions of MPEG technologies prevent the free distribution of the popular "MP3" audio playback. With the current and rapid adoption of HTML-5 Video specifications, these difficult challenges are ones that must be addressed immediately. This talk will review the obstacles, and the practical solutions, to using multimedia within the Mer Project.

• Author bio

See Evangelizing Mer below.

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.