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=== Contributing with Git & Gitorious === | === Contributing with Git & Gitorious === | ||
Revision as of 10:04, 8 September 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
Copy & paste the following template, and fill in the details specific to your presentation.
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
PySide: Python for Qt And Automatic Bindings Generation
- Marcelo Lira dos Santos - marcelo.lira@openbossa.org - setanta on #maemo
- Intended audience: application developers/platform developers
- Talk type: presentation
- Abstract/description:
- The Python bindings for the Maemo Platform provided by PyMaemo are an all-time favorite among the Maemo developer community. Python must keep up with the recent addition of Qt to the Nokia offering for Maemo developers.
- PySide are the Python bindings for Qt framework developed by INdT (Instuto Nokia de Tecnologia) [1], and recently released under a LGPL license. The PySide [2] bindings target not only the desktop but were conceived to provide Qt for Python on the Maemo platform.
- Qt being a huge library, the task of creating bindings for any high level language must be automated as much as possible, while retaining the developer ability to adjust details to satisfy the particular target language demands. To tackle this problem, a binding generator for Python was developed based on QtScript Generator from Qt Development Frameworks. Developers of bindings for other Qt-based libraries could also benefit of this automated generation scheme.
- This talk will present PySide, describe its characteristics, show its current status on Maemo Platform and where the project is headed to. The binding generation tool will also be explained, as well as the common problems that arise when wrapping C++ libraries to high level languages such as Python.
- Author bio
- Marcelo is an active developer of PySide and PyMaemo projects at INdT and has been involved with Maemo apps development since N800. Nowadays he is working with automatic binding generation for C++ based libraries, like Qt.
From corporations to communities: responsible and effective engagement
- Randall "Texrat" Arnold, fabricator at cynicalsigns dot com, http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com
- Intended audience is Nokia PR; Nokia Maemo team; Maemo developer, tester and superuser community; other interested parties
- Talk type : best practice/lessons learned presentation
- Abstract/description
- The presentation covers the following subject areas: general best practices in the area of corporate/community relations and how they apply to Maemo, as well as possibly a post mortem of lessons learned vis a vis community outreach from both Maemo and user perspectives (via interviews).
- This will not be a "what Nokia did wrong" as much as it is a clear, appropriate guide for future public relations in the murky world of commercial enterprise meets open source development; a path forward
.
- Author bio
- I am a former Nokia employee (Alliance factory and DSNM trade customer logistics) who was a principal on the US launch team for the N800. As Quality Engineer I managed the delivery of 200 devices to CES 2007 and ensured quality on devices delivered until their production relocation to Mexico. I became one of the first Nokia employees to reach out to the new community of tablet software developers and have continued in a voluntary representative role. I also tested internal applications such as the enterprise support suite (including VPN) and field tested the N810 WiMAX Edition tablet. I also developed a prototype mobile auditing solution using the internet tablets. Today I still cover the internet tablets and their applications at http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com
Midgard2: Content repository for your tablet and the web
- Author: Henri Bergius, henri.bergius at iki dot fi
- Intended audience: Application Developers
- Talk type: presentation
- Abstract/description
- Midgard2 is an Open Source Content Repository providing an objectified view to the data and services surrounding it. At the basic level it abstracts the database access (SQLite, MySql, PostgreSQL) but this is only where it all starts. Serialization & replication, managing own storage objects, multi-process access to data are all covered. The fully object-oriented (GObject-oriented) API allows you to focus on the data, not the database syntax, regardless of what programming language you are working with. Midgard's content repository services allow you to easily write applications that keep their data synchronized between tablets, web and user's desktop computers.
- Author bio
- Henri Bergius is a former Viking based in the Nordic country of Finland. When he is not exploring the cave cities of Georgia or running with bulls in Pamplona, Bergie works on web services built on top of the Midgard toolkit. His company Nemein provides web solutions for several major companies in Finland and abroad. After half decade of regular web development, Henri got involved with free software in 1999 when he coordinated the public release of the Midgard content management system. Since then he has been actively working on integrating standards like RSS and Microformats into the system and traveling the world advocating for interoperation between open source CMSs. Henri's current passion is combining web services, mobile applications and socially produced geographical data together to build useful tools for travelers and mobile companies. To this end he is working on the GeoClue library that allows mobile Linux applications to easily become geo-aware. When duties allow, Bergie escapes the crunch to explore the hills of Lapland or rides his classic motorcycle. He is also an amateur pilot.
Developing applications using Plasma
- Artur Duque de Souza - asouza AT kde DOT org / morpheuz AT gmail DOT com
- Intended audience: application developers
- Talk type: presentation
- Abstract/description
- KDE4 brought a new concept of desktop called "Plasma" where everything is a "live object". To achieve this, a library called libplasma was created and this is a very powerful library that enables any application to create modular and rich UIs. During this presentation I'll talk more about libplasma and how it can help the developer to create more attractive and rich UIs easily.
- Author bio
- Linux user since 1997, MoRpHeUz (a.k.a. Artur de Souza) worked for IBM (Linux Technology Center) and currently is working for INdT as a researcher at the openBossa stream, developing open-source solutions for mobile devices. One of the main core developers of Canola 2, now he works on bringing rich UIs to Qt applications.
Mobile Widget Development and Trends
- Author: Rajesh Lal, rajesh.lal at nokia dot com
- Intended audience: Widget Developers/Mobile Application Developers
- Talk type: Presentation/Demo
- Abstract/description
- A presentation on Mobile Widget Development, and how Maemo platform distinguishes itself with Common Web Runtime and QT, and provides a strong foundation for Mobile Developers across the World.
- This presentation is not about QT or WRT, this is about the over used term Widget, in a global term, what is the history, what is a web widget, a mobile widget, and what are the technology stack available out there for widget development. and How Maemo distingushes itself with QT and WRT.
- Benefit to Maemo Developers
- Clear understanding of the Overused Term Widget
- Know about Web Widgets and Mobile Widgets
- Understand the Current Trends in Mobile Development
- See the Definite Advantage of Maemo Platform for Widget Development
- Gain knowledge about Common Web Runtime and QT
- Learn about Widget Development in Maemo 5 and Future Maemo Devices
- Author bio
- Rajesh lal is a Nokia Research Engineer, Author, Technology Evangelist, and a Developer based in Mountain View, California. He has been involved in Widget development for last 5 years and have authored two books on Gadgets, and Widgets, namely Creating Vista Gadgets from Sams Publication and Professional Web Widgets by Wrox Publications. Rajesh holds a Master's degree in Computer Science, is a Code Project MVP and an Active member of ACM with experience in a variety of Mobile devices, namely Sony Mylo, Window's Mobile, Apple's Iphone, and Maemo devices.
Publishing your software through maemo.org
- Author: Niels Breet
- Intended audience: application developers
- Talk type: presentation
- Abstract/description
- This talk will give developers an overview of what services are available for them to publish their application through maemo.org. Going from autobuilder, package interfaces, community QA to Downloads and Extras.
- Author bio
- Niels Breet is the maemo.org webmaster, working on web services available at maemo.org.
Extras/autobuilder/interfaces round-table
- Author: Ed Bartosh, Alexander Kanevskiy, Niels Breet
- Intended audience: application and platform developers
- Talk type: round-table
- Room: Oostelijk Meterhuis
- Duration: 1 hour
- Abstract/description
- The purpose of this round-table is to discuss future features that can be added to autobuilder and all Extras related services. We want to gather opinions and see what the needs of developers are. Suggestions about enhancements or new features are appreciated.
- Author bio
- Ed Bartosh and Alexander Kanevskiy both work at Nokia, in their spare time they work on the autobuilder for Extras. Niels Breet is the maemo.org webmaster, working on web services available at maemo.org.
Hackathon: Integrating Canola with Fremantle
- Author: Eduardo Lima (Etrunko)
- Intended audience: Application Developers
- Talk type: Hands-on/Hackathon
- Duration: All Saturday/Sunday long
- Abstract/description
- The idea of this session is to get a reasonable number of people interested in integrating Canola with the new technologies introduced in Fremantle, mostly Tracker and MAFW, together, so we can trace a plan and start getting our hands dirty.
- Why??
- Some Canola components were conceived aiming to provide alternate solutions for some Nokia closed-source libraries and others that were not available by the time we started the project (mid-2007, back then we only had the N800 with Bora/Chinook). That's why we created our own media scanner (lightmediascanner+canolad) and media engine (atabake). Now I think it is time for us to evolve to the new and open solutions provided by Fremantle, yet keeping compatibility with "legacy" platforms, such as Diablo.
- People interested in developing plugins for Canola and/or developing using EFL/PyEFL are more than welcome to join us.
- Extra equipment
Guns, lots of guns.- Brave hacker souls
- Power outlets galore
- Internet Connection
- Whiteboard/Flipchart
- Coffe
- Author bio
- Open Source Software enthusiast, involved with Maemo since the very beginning (mid 2005), and had the opportunity to be part of the first Maemo Community Council. Started porting various GTK+/GNOME applications (Gnumeric, Evince, Abiword, Leafpad, Xournal, etc), to the platform. Worked on the first version of Carman, written in Python + GTK. After that, joined the team developing the Canola media player, coding and maintaining its packages for Maemo since then. Also maintains packages of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) for Maemo. Works for openBossa/INdT, where has been having the opportunity to present and talk about Maemo in events in Brazil and worldwide.
Contributing with Git & Gitorious
- Johan Sørensen (johan at shortcut.no)
- Maemo devs and application developers
- Talk type - Presentation
- Abstract/description
- Gitorious.org is an open sourced application and site, that provides infrastructure for managing projects using Git. It hosts thousands of projects, among those Qt. This talk provides an overview of what Gitorious is and what it can do for your project.
- Author bio
- Johan Sørensen is the original developer of Gitorious, which is now driven by Shortcut AS, a company he co-founded.
Designing Emulators for Mobile Devices
- Marat Fayzullin - RST38h on #maemo
- Intended audience: application developers
- Talk type: presentation
- Abstract/description
- Computer system emulation has been known for years. Recent revolution in mobile hardware makes it possible to run usable emulators on mobile devices, but some problems still remain. Limited performance, lack of proper controls, and widely varying screen sizes make it difficult to provide users with proper experience. This presentation will describe how the above problems can be worked around.
- Author bio
- Marat Fayzullin is an independent application developer specializing in software emulation of computer hardware. He has authored and maintains eight different emulators (some free, others commercial) for multiple platforms, from MSDOS to Maemo and Symbian. See http://fms.komkon.org/ for details.
WebKit Community: How It Works
- Ariya Hidayat, ariya dot hidayat at nokia dot com
- Intended audience: application developers
- Talk type: introduction and workshop
- Abstract/description
- WebKit has evolved over time into one of the most compelling HTML rendering engine currently in use. As an open-source project it stands out because of its size and because of the special collaboration between volunteer developers and companies.
- This presentation is not so much a presentation in the classic sense but planned as an introduction to the team rules of the WebKit project, e.g. how to create patches, ask for review, get in contact with the developer, etc. It will be followed by an extended question and answers session that should cover the most important and mots common questions.
- Author bio
- Ariya is a software engineer at Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks in Oslo. He is an open-source advocate for almost a decade, writing code for projects like KDE, WebKit and of course Qt. He posts lots of examples for Qt Labs Blogs on a biweekly basis, under the pretext of attracting more developers to use Qt (and hopefully grabbing the Most Prolific Blogger award). Ariya obtained his PhD in the field of high-speed optical communications. He speaks English with an Asian accent and cannot play any musical instruments.
Preparing your Qt Application for Fremantle and Harmattan
- Ian Monroe <ian.monroe at collabora.co.uk>
- Intended audience: application developers
- Talk type: Presentation/BoF
- Abstract/description
- An initial short presentation about Qt on Fremantle, what the Qt platform might look like on Harmattan and the status of the QtMobility project will be followed by a guided audience discussion.
The group discussion will be about the unique issues of developing on this new Qt platform, and the challenges and feasiblity of porting existing desktop applicaitons.
- Integrating with Tracker
- Telepathy
- ...and other (traditionally Gnome) parts of the Maemo stack.
- How much existing desktop GUI (if any) can be used on the small touch-screen device?
- Core/UI separation
- Developing touch screen UIs
- Additional Information
- Non-fixed chairs so that they can be put in a circular fashion (which is best for a BoF when possible).
- Author bio
- Ian is a software developer at Collabora Ltd where he works from home in Iowa City, Iowa USA. He has been a developer of the popular desktop music manager Amarok for four years. He is the maintainer of KDE's video player, Dragon Player.
10 Tips for Designing Mobile Widgets
- Author: Rajesh Lal, rajesh.lal at nokia dot com
- Intended audience: Widget Developers/Mobile Application Developers
- Talk type: Presentation
- Abstract/description
- Do you know why only 1 percent of Mobile Widgets are successful ? What makes some widgets thrive and used by millions, and others with equal functionality bite the dust ? Make no mistakes, design of a widget is not about graphics, color or fonts. This presentation will demystify this 'invisible' layer below the surface with 10 pragmatic tips. The tips will uncover some of the most useful, and often ignored standard design principles and how to apply them in a mobile context.
- Author bio
- Rajesh lal is a Designer, Author, Technology Evangelist, and a Senior Nokia Engineer with a decade of experience in Information Technology. He has been involved in Widget design and development for last 5 years and have authored multiple books on Gadgets and Widgets. He has experience in a variety of Mobile devices, namely Sony Mylo, Window's Mobile, Apple's Iphone, Nokia S60 and Maemo devices. His blog on design and user experience can be found at http://abcofdesign.com
Conboy, Tomboy and Snowy
- Cornelius Hald
- Intended audience: users and application developers
- Talk type: lightning talk
- Abstract/description
- Short introduction to Conboy and the new (not yet released) features, which are online synchronization with Tomboy/Gnote via the Snowy web service and plug-in support. Could include a demo if wanted.
- Author bio
- I'm a computer science student looking for distraction while writing my final thesis.