Mozilla Maemo Danish Weekend

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The Maemo and Mozilla projects are organizing a joint developer camp in Copenhagen the last weekend of May. If you are working on Fennec, Fennec add-ons or Maemo 5 applications this call is for you! The meeting is open and free, although [http://events.mozilla-europe.org/event/?id=6 registration] is needed for planning purposes.
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May 30-31 + Friday night party (29th).
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IT University of Copenhagen (see [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=111708067772970294729.0004534dbce38020625e0&ie=UTF8&ll=55.662192,12.588615&spn=0.162091,0.526657&z=12 map] & [http://www.cphx.dk/index.php?language=uk#/28761/ pictures] & [http://www.flickr.com/photos/28959625@N04/sets/72157617077958090/ more pictures])
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May 30-31 + Friday night party (29th).
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The Maemo and Mozilla projects are organizing a joint developer camp in Copenhagen the last weekend of May. If you are working on Fennec, Fennec add-ons or Maemo 5 applications this call is for you!
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IT University of Copenhagen (see [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=111708067772970294729.0004534dbce38020625e0&ie=UTF8&ll=55.662192,12.588615&spn=0.162091,0.526657&z=12 map] & [http://www.cphx.dk/index.php?language=uk#/28761/ pictures] & [http://www.flickr.com/photos/28959625@N04/sets/72157617077958090/ more pictures])
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All the information you need is here. If not, ask for it or add it yourself (log in not required but desired for regular contributors).
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The meeting is open and free, although is needed for planning purposes. '''[http://events.mozilla-europe.org/event/?id=6 Registration]''' - '''[[Mozilla_Maemo_Danish_Weekend/Participants|Who is coming]]'''.
== Focus areas ==
== Focus areas ==

Revision as of 05:38, 30 April 2009

May 30-31 + Friday night party (29th).
IT University of Copenhagen (see map & pictures & more pictures)

The Maemo and Mozilla projects are organizing a joint developer camp in Copenhagen the last weekend of May. If you are working on Fennec, Fennec add-ons or Maemo 5 applications this call is for you!

The meeting is open and free, although is needed for planning purposes. Registration - Who is coming.

Contents

Focus areas

This hands-on developer meeting is all about getting software ready for end users. Both Fennec and Maemo 5 will be in beta stage and approaching their final releases. Code, test, fix, improve... and have fun!

Fennec add-ons

We love Fennec add-ons!

Mozilla core development

Common to Fennec and the Maemo browser.

Maemo applications

Fremantle Stars + other Maemo community projects willing to join.

Mer

Mer is also known as the Maemo 5 community edition for the Nokia N810/N800/770 Internet Tablets. More information about the project can be found on the Mer homepage.

The high level goal of this focus area is to bring Mer closer to 1.0, which is meant to be the first day-to-day usable release on Nokia Internet Tablets. Maemo 5 will be in beta stage at this point and and we should be able to provide Fremantle APIs and a Maemo 4 replacement to Nokia N8x0(W) users when Maemo 5 is out. The hope is to be able to use the synergy of bringing so many Maemo and Mer related personalities together, to be able to move ahead on things that would take longer if having to be done online.

Sub-goals, which serve as guidelines for activities:

  • Control panels to be able to control behavior of your tablet.
  • Developer tools - Builders, cross compilation environments and IDEs.
  • Artwork and UI design - Icons, themes, backgrounds, animations, shining up interfaces through code, etc.
  • Hardware interfacing and event-reaction daemons (implementing behavior similar to or better than Maemo 4).
  • Integration with maemo.org both on a organizational (relation to council, community) and technical level (package and image builders, repositories).
  • Alignment with Maemo 5 APIs and integration of Nokia-closed software in restricted images.
  • Chasing down showstopper bugs which would hinder user adoption of Mer 1.0.
  • Discussions on Mer after 1.0 and presentations on Mer to potential users and developers.
  • Getting the Mer project developers and contributors together for the first time.

Activity intentions can be found here and developer call post

Schedule

To be defined according to the needs. If you want to have a session requiring the auditorium or one of the 3 rooms available please post your proposal in the discussion page.


Accommodation

We are working on a short list of officially recommended venues, and specially the one recommended by default, where the sponsored participants will be hosted. More information soon.

Below you have some independent recommendations.

Sleep in Heaven

  • For the budget traveller who doesn't mind sleeping in dorm beds in shared rooms.
  • Sleep in Heaven is a youth hostel and you have to be between 16 and 35 years old to stay there.
  • Homepage, price range is from 17.47 EUR per night (rated by number of beds in room) (+ 5.5 for bedlinen and 5.5 for breakfast)
  • Features: Free wifi, free locker, booking online in advance, etc.
  • Roughly 27 minutes by public transport from the venue to the hostel. Metro (M1, M2) nearby venue will put you within 1km distance of the hostel.
  • Address: Struenseegade 7, 2200 København N

CABINN hotels

  • Homepage, 3 hotels in CPH, Rates from € 66 / DKK 485 per night (depending on location)
  • See locations on map
  • CABINN Scandinavia is nearby metro which goes to venue (and airport)
  • Free internet (unknown if it is WiFi - some Open WiFi pages claim it is)

More to come

Sponsorship

We have some budget to support travel and accommodation expenses of key developers able to make a difference in the Danish Weekend.

Selection criteria:

  • Developers of Fennec add-ons, Fremantle Stars and the Mer project. Link to your projects and get references from lead developers.
  • Developers of cool software for average users available in Fremantle Extras-devel.
  • Other key Maemo contributors with high karma and a concrete development plan for the weekend.

Apply for sponsorship. Sooner is better.

Useful links

Promotion

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