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Revision as of 09:24, 13 July 2009

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Go-to market opportunities for mobile application developers

I'm unsure about the relevance of this presentation to attendees. Dave Neary 14:57, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

The focus of the presentation seems to be mostly around other platforms than maemo, although some of the topics have some relevance for the attendees, I'm not sure if the presentation as a all have enough relevance for the audience. Valério Valério 10:22, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Remember that this is a Maemo Summit and not a Mobile Summit. I like the potential of the talk although it would have to be very heavily orientated around Maemo for this to be accepted. Its fine to compare Maemo with other competitors but it has to be a Maemo talk first and foremost and a 'state of the mobile ecosphere' second. -- baloo 22:07, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

More info about the presentation:

"My goal in this presentation is to steer a discussion about the best way of the Maemo community to make applications as easily available as possible. I don’t have solutions but I can bring in our experiences in working on multiple platforms to demonstrate what works better.

Namely -

• iPhone environment is by far the best environment for app developers. The system encourage users to try and use external apps and it is doing it with an intuitive 'store-front' and easy setup.
• Nokia (OVI) and WM environment provides decent solutions assuming the end user is passionate in looking for an app. Their draw-back are - unfriendly store-front; too many steps in the download process and a lengthy setup process.
• The Linux solution, repositories - is only for the geeks. It is too technical, hidden, and presented to those who understand the insides of the device.

My goal in the presentation is to demo what we are doing in each channel, our unique approach to ease the process in some environment (Symbian and WM), the different 'app-stores'. I hope that this will encourage the technical guys to set and build a better process in Maemo such that the non-geeks users can benefit from the applications provided."

Canola application and framework for rich GUI

I would prefer a more in-deep presentation around the framework behind canola than the app itself, since the intended audience will be application developers and some of the canola components have a big lack of documentation. -- Valério Valério 10:32, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Yes, that's it. Since people from Maemo already know Canola, what I really hope is to bring more developers to Canola (Terra) framework, so we can have more Canola plugins or even other applications in the same line, built from scratch using Terra framework. --k-s 11:42, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

On the assumption that this is indeed a more developer orientated presentation about the Terra framework and not just Canola (obviously using Canola for an example of what can be done) I personally would be happy to see this at the Summit. -- baloo 22:02, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Since the focus of talk will be the canola framework instead of the app itself, I would like to see it at the summit. -- Valério Valério 09:14, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Attracting the Masses

Presentation declined. We felt that the content wasn't compelling enough for the presentation, and there will be considerable duplication with presentations during the Nokia day, which will concentrate on cracking the mass market, and during the Fremantle Stars presentations we expect to have. Please add any comments you might have below. Dave Neary 16:45, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

• Daniel Gentleman, thoughtfix at gmail dot com or thoughtfix anywhere.
• Intended audience: Developers - but other parties may be interested
• Talk type: Presentation (req: projector with VGA or DVI input for a Keynote presentation)
• Abstract/description

Tablets have hundreds of applications now - but who are they for? If the Internet Tablets are intended to attract a more mainstream mobile market, the maemo community needs to get in touch with the needs of the target market.

The first part of this presentation will give an overview of the most popular applications on competing platforms. This information will be collected through app store sales/download counts, direct communication with a sampling of mobile consumers, and communication with some other high-profile mobile technology journalists. This will include actual applications, connectivity options, peripherals, interface (touch/keyboard/icon/etc) preferences, and related consumer desires.

The second part of this presentation will give an overview of the state of the existing maemo platform including commercial partners, independent contributors, and ports of more popular Linux software.

The conclusion will analyze mobile consumer desires compared to maemo offerings and, hopefully, give developers ideas on what they can write to make the platform more appealing.

• Author bio

The seeds of TabletBlog started in 2005 when some geek named Daniel Gentleman picked up the original Nokia 770 and started a blog. Since then, I've published thousands of bits of material reaching millions of visitors and video views. So far, I've been present for the Nokia N800 launch in CES 2007, the N810 launch at the Web2Summit, BossaConference 2008 in Recife, Brazil, and the first Maemo Summit.

liqbase-playground

I would like to see this grouped with the other Fremantle Star projects into a keynote presentation. If we can get the majority of the other Star project authors together for this it would be a great talk. Feel free to submit a more liqbase focused talk if you have idea's for a longer session. -- baloo 22:48, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Maemo Co-Creation Working Session

I like the idea of this a lot but the line "lead users + Maemo product managers, designers and marketeers" does worry me a little. I know this may require the signing of NDA's e.t.c. for the session but it would be more transparent if you could outline the requirements for attendance. We are catering for a lot of Maemo enthusiasts so a session looking at the idea's behind the next tablet is going to be way over-subscribed. I think you need to set out up front the people you are allowing to this session and the people who cannot attend to try to minimize the feeling of 'eliteness'. -- baloo 22:48, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

My interpretation is that the talk is open for everybody ("Maemo co-creation 2009 will now open up for the Maemo community"), if I understood well this sessions will present the result of the *closed* co-creation sessions in order to craft more ideas from the community. So is a yes for me. -- Valério Valério 09:23, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Maemomm: Maemo with C++ and a Gtkmm flavour

Big yes from me but where to put the talk? I think more with platform developers than application ones. -- baloo 22:48, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Challenges of Multimedia within a Freely Distributable Tablet Framework

Seems a little too abstract for a Maemo Summit as I think these issues effect a much wider audience. A good talk but again, in the interests of keeping this a very Maemo Summit focused event, I'm saying no unless a more compelling argument is there. -- baloo 22:48, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Evangelizing Mer, and Tips on Promoting Your Own Project

Not sure this would stand up as a full session, suited more to a lightning talk? -- baloo 22:48, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Hildon toolkit for Fremantle

Big yes from me. This will be a Fremantle heavy summit and these are the kind of talks everyone is there to see. I'm tempted to say that this is an Application Developers talk but I think this is best suited as a Platform Developer one. -- baloo 22:48, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Modest, email client for Fremantle

Another big yes for me. Lets hope that the talk also focuses on a lot of the user complaints that Modest has accumulated recently. I'd like to not only see what we have in store for Fremantle but what improvements there are going to be for the N8x0 users. -- baloo 22:48, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Adapting GNOME applications to Maemo Fremantle

Yes. Please make this relevant for the non-Fremantle crowd though. Not wanting to hijack your presentation but there are a lot people out there with little to no knowledge of porting applications to the restrained environment that the tablet has to offer but a lot of people who will still be developing/porting for the 770/N8x0 for a long time to come. --~ baloo

Mer: A year after

For me this is more a lightning talk. I'd like to see a more in-dept proposal if this is to be a longer session. -- baloo 22:48, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

How to speed up your Maemo application development

Yes from me although this is a pretty hard-core platform developer talk. ESbox and PluThon are important parts of tablet development and as a lightning session you could 'scratch the itch' of the attendee. Maybe a little more information about how you intend to do this as a full session?