Maemo Summit 2009/Submissions

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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

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  • 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.


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.

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.


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.

Behaviour-Driven Development on Maemo

  • Jose Teixeira
  • Intended audience: Application developers & platform developers
  • Talk type: Kightning talk
  • Abstract/description
What is Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)? Why BDD matters to Maemo developers? And How to setup and open-source BDD tool-chain for Maemo ? And, finally How to make BDD funnier on a N810 device with Ruby, Rspec, Cucumber and QtScript.
  • I already made a deep dive in the subject. I try now to capture the attention of others to follow.
  • Author bio
Jose Teixeira participated in the development of the Maemo Application Framework as Nokia trainer. Right now, he his a full-time researcher, teaching IT in a Finnish university as well. On his free-time, he contributes to open-source projects and incite many others to to the same.

Maemo and oFono

  • By Rémi Denis-Courmont (remi dot denis-courmont at nokia dot com) and Aki Niemi (aki dot niemi at nokia dot com)
  • For platform developers
  • Presentation (could be shortened to lightning talk but...)
  • oFono is an open source telephony stack for Linux. It provides an easy-to-use D-Bus interface and has support for a variety of cellular modem hardware, including Nokia cellular modems. The project is a joint effort between Intel and Nokia.
How is it different from earlier attempts? What is it all about? What can you do with Ofono and Nokia N900?
  • For demoing purpose, the presenter will need to use his own laptop and Nokia devices.
  • Rémi Denis-Courmont currently works for Nokia, where he maintains the Phonet stack for the Linux kernel, the Maemo platform and the Ofono project. Outside Nokia, he's also been involved in the VideoLAN project.

Maemo Platform Security: Principles and Concepts

  • Elena Reshetova - elena.reshetova@nokia.com
  • Intended audience: users, application developers, platform developers
  • Talk type: presentation
  • Abstract/description:
The purpose of the Platform Security in the Maemo platform is to protect the owner of a Maemo-powered device from getting her personal, private data and passwords from being stolen and used for malicious purposes, to prevent a malware from misusing a device and incurring costs on user, to prevent a user from accidentally breaking the device and to make the platform meet the requirements set by such third party software that requires a safe execution environment.
The main design goal is to have all this accomplished without any significant penalty in terms of performance or usability, by using established open standards and having as much of the implementation open-sourced as possible. Another goal is to minimize an entry barrier for 3rd party programmers by reusing the existing Linux programming environment and introducing only needed additional features.
The presentation will cover the main principles and concepts of the Maemo Platform Security.
  • Author bio
Elena is a senior security engineer and representative of Maemo security team at the Maemo summit. The current task of the team is development of the Maemo Security FW.

Hacking officially unsupported Bluetooth profiles to work in Fremantle

  • Johan Hedberg - johan.hedberg at nokia.com
  • Intended audience: users,application developers,platform developers
  • Talk type: presentation
  • Abstract/description
Fremantle doesn't come with out-of-the-box support of several Bluetooth profiles that are could in theory be supported with upstream components. These include e.g. DUN, HID and PAN. The presentation intends to be a hands-on session demonstrating how to enable support for these profiles through the act of changing config files and random hacking.
  • Author bio
Johan has been a software developer in the Maemo team ever since the first Maemo device, the 770 came out. His main responsibility area is Bluetooth and through active upstream involvement he has become a co-maintainer of BlueZ.


Continous Integration with CruiseControl and Scratchbox

  • Jani Mikkonen, ext dash jani dot mikkonen at nokia dot com, rasjani @ #mer
  • Application developers / QA People
  • Lightning talk / Can extend to presentation if interest demands
  • Abstract/description
Topic is about how to harness Cruisecontrol to full build / packaging / testing and repository update cycle for development teams big and small.
  • Additional Information (optional)
Projector for showing live demostration and own laptop.
  • Author bio
Jani has been working with Maemo since Diablo/N800 on various tasks from maintenance to testing and is a long time linux user with developer & bofh background.

Intelligent Usage of Fremantle Location Framework For Location-aware Applications

  • Quanyi Sun
  • Intended audience: users/application developers/platform developers
  • Talk type: presentation
  • Abstract/description
Abstract:

Location API is part of the Maemo 5 (Fremantle) API offerings. The location API for the first time now has introduced concept of hybrid locationing methods, i.e., supports of multiple locationing technologies seemlessly in a transparent way. In addition to the benefits of hybrid locationing methods, there are some issues, e.g., power consumption, that must be handled properly in order to maximize the benefits.

This presentation intends to hightlight the major issues when using location API, and provides best recommendations for developing location-aware applications in Maemo 5.

  • Author bio:

Quanyi Sun has been working for Maemo as technical product owner in location area, with 13+ years of industrial experiences, e.g., in mission-critical realtime onboard software project in my early days.


Tracker: Dial M for Metadata

  • Ivan Frade <ifrade@gnome.org>
  • Intended audience: application developers/platform developers
  • Presentation
  • Abstract/description
Tracker is a freedesktop project (with GNOME roots) included in the maemo platform for the first time in maemo5. In fremantle it is a simple index engine with support for basic metadata. For harmattan Tracker takes a great leap forward becoming a central storage for *user information*. The important data for the user (contacts, messages, multimedia, ...) will not only be stored in an application independent way, but also in a "linkable" format. This enables a new user experience: it makes it possible to integrate contacts everywhere, mix IM/email/twitter history of a contact, and so on.

In this presentation, Application developers can see how data is linked and obtained from Tracker to enrich their applications; platform contributors can learn how to integrate new information sources.

  • Author bio
Ivan Frade is an open source enthusiast who works in nokia building a data management solution for maemo based on tracker. On his free time, helps the world to tag properly their Mp3s with his pet-project.

Mobile Office based on KOffice Open Source Project

  • Suresh Chande, suresh.chande at nokia.com
  • Intended audience: Application & Platform developers
  • Talk type: Presentation
  • Abstract/description
We will present here Mobile Office project developed for Fremantle based on KOffice, a Qt based open source project.
  • Additional Information (optional)
We will demonstrate Mobile Office (KOffice) running on the N900.
  • Author bio
Suresh Chande, works for Nokia in Device R&D(Maemo ) as Technical Product Owner for the Office Domain. Suresh has worked at Nokia Research Center for over 11 years focusing Mobile Business and Enterprise Application research. His vision is to have Office tools free for use by everybody.

Designing QT application for Maemo 5 and Maemo 6

  • Sergiy Dubovik, sergiy dot dubovik "at sign" nokia point com
  • Intended audience: application developers
  • Talk type: presentation
  • Abstract/description
How application developers should design their applications to work on Maemo 5 and Maemo 6 platforms? Which widgets will be supported? How to handle possible virtual keyboard? Where to store application settings? Which QT services will be available? These questions will be answered.
  • Additional information on extra equipment you might need or something else goes here
Just a projector
  • Author bio
Sergiy Dubovik is a senior software developer working in Nokia, designing and developing UI frameworks for Harmattan program.


MicroB browser, why it fastest "Mozilla based" browser, features, extensions for MicroB

  • Oleg Romashin, oleg dot romashin at nokia dot com / Nagineni Sudarsana
  • Intended audience: application developers
  • Talk type: presentation
  • Abstract/description
Maemo 5, MicroB browser currently is fastest "Mozilla based" browser available on mobile platform.
This presentation is some sort of description of architecture and principles of MicroB browser, why it so fast, what is difference between MicroB and Fennec browser.
Also some description about how to write extensions for MicroB browser.

ContextKit - context awareness for Maemo and everybody else

  • Author: Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@nokia.com>
  • Intended audience: application developers/platform developers)
  • Type: presentation
  • Abstract

A lot of information is available from sensors and other sources that can make applications more 'aware' of the situation that a mobile device is in. The current location is an obvious example.

A new ContextKit collects these information about the environment of a device, combines many of them into something more abstract and exports it all in the form of simple key/value pairs to applications and other consumers. A long list of 'standard' properties is defined.

This presentation introduces the ContextKit to application and platform developers.

  • Author bio:

Marius moved to Helsinki some uncounted years ago to work for Nokia on the Maemo platform. Now he has to re-learn C++ and compensates for this by finally learning Perl as well.

BlueMaemo - Bluetooth HID mouse & keyboard for Maemo

  • Valério Valério
  • Intended audience: users
  • Talk type: lightning talk
  • Abstract/description
BlueMaemo is a remote controller application that turns your Maemo device in a mixed Bluetooth keyboard-and-mouse device through the HID Bluetooth profile.
This presentation will be a showcase of the application new UI, some new features that will be introduced in Fremantle will be shown as well.
  • Author bio
Valério is a MSc researcher at University of Évora, Portugal. During his free time he has actively participated in several open source community's and projects.

Qt 4.6: What is comming

  • Authors: Anselmo Lacerda Silveira de Melo - anselmo.melo AT openbossa DOT org / Jesus Sanchez-Palencia jesus.palencia AT openbossa DOT org
  • Intended audience: application developers
  • Talk type: presentation
  • Abstract/description

The next release of Qt is comming with brand new features, such as the State Machine Framework, the Animations API, S60 port, Scoped Pointers, Anchor Layout, performance optimizations in QGraphicsView, Multi-touch Gestures, Audio Services, GraphicsEffects, etc. The goal of the talk is to provide an overview of the benefits of each new feature and how they shall change the development of Qt applications. Also, some applications will be shown, running on Maemo 5 and S60, demonstrating how cross-platform Qt can be and what is ready for the new generation of Maemo devices.

  • Author bio

Anselmo is a GNU/Linux user since 2002, works with Linux on embedded devices since 2006. Works for INdT as a researcher at the openBossa open-source stream, where develops rich UIs features for Qt and is also part of the Qt Labs Americas initiative. Whenever possible, he likes hunting bugs with the KDE Bugsquad.

Jesus works with Maemo since 2007, besides other embedded Linux projects since 2006. Has contributions to the ERESI project (Elf Reverse Engineering Software Interface), and nowadays works at openBossa, INdT open-source stream, where develops rich UIs features for Qt and is also part of the Qt Labs Americas initiative.

Spreading Qt in the New World

  • Author: Anselmo Lacerda Silveira de Melo - anselmo.melo AT openbossa DOT org
  • Intended audience: Users / Application Developers
  • Talk type: lightning talk
  • Abstract/description

An introduction to Qt Labs Americas (http://qtlabs.openbossa.org), an initiative of openBossa stream of INdT aiming to spread Qt in the American continent, starting in Brazil. What have been done, what are the future plans and how the community can benefit from it.

  • Author bio

GNU/Linux user since 2002, works with Linux on embedded devices since 2006. Works for INdT as a researcher at the openBossa open-source stream where develops rich UIs features for Qt and is also part of the Qt Labs Americas initiative. Whenever possible, he likes hunting bugs with the KDE Bugsquad.

Next generation layouts in Qt 4.6

  • Author: Caio Marcelo de Oliveira Filho - caio.oliveira AT openbossa.org
  • Author: Eduardo M. Fleury - eduardo.fleury AT openbossa.org
  • Intended audience: Users / Application Developers
  • Talk type: presentation
  • Abstract/description

With the release of N900, the first Maemo phone from Nokia, the importance of developing rich UI applications is higher than ever. As a consequence, new challenges are posed to both application and framework developers.

One of these challenges is how to distribute items on the screen in a flexible and dynamic way. This talk will present the next generation layouts we have been developing, together with Qt Development Frameworks, to fullfil such requirements

We will cover the new QGraphicsAnchorLayout, to be released in Qt 4.6, including the use cases that drove us, its usage and examples showing the benefits of such technology.

  • Author bio

Caio Marcelo de Oliveira Filho graduated in computer engineering at UNICAMP (in Brazil) and GNU/Linux user for more than a decade. Contributed to the development of Canola2 and the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries. Today works for Openbossa/INdT developing new solutions for mobile applications using Qt framework and related technologies.

Eduardo Fleury is Brazilian, graduated as Computer Engineer at Unicamp, in 2006. Since then has been working in Linux-related projects. Currently works at INdT (Nokia Institute of Technology) developing, among other projects, the Qt framework. Has been working on tools designed for the creation of rich interfaces, including AnchorLayout and animated Layouts.

Telepathy on Maemo

  • Author: Marco Barisione, marco.barisione at collabora.co.uk
  • Intended audience: application developers/platform developers
  • Talk type: presentation
  • Abstract/description:

The Telepathy real-time communication framework is a project to abstract messaging, presence, voice and video functionality, regardless of the underlying protocol. Amongst numerous benefits, this makes the connections available as a D-Bus service which can be shared between multiple applications, rather than limited to single monolithic jack-of-all-trades clients.

The talk will introduce the Telepathy framework, its basic concepts and current functionality. It will focus in particular on: - The Telepathy architecture - How Telepathy is used on Maemo 5 for chat, VOIP calls, telephony calls and SMS messages - How to use Telepathy from your program

  • Author bio:

Marco Barisione started to work on Telepathy implementing file transfer for a Google Summer of Code and for his University final project. After graduating he started to work for Collabora where he worked both on Telepathy and on the GTK+ port of WebKit and he spent the last year working on Telepathy-related components for Maemo. Before falling in love with Telepathy he worked on various other GNOME projects, in particular adding regular expression support to GLib and implementing a new syntax highlighting engine for the GtkSourceView widget.

High-resolution image processing on Maemo devices

  • Author: Alexander Bokovoy - alexander dot bokovoy AT nokia dot com
  • Intended audience: application developers/platform developers
  • Talk type: presentation
  • Abstract/description

N900 is the first Maemo device with high resolution camera. While making photos with camera is an obvious use for it, resulted images are stored on the device and can be used by applications for other purposes as well. Mobile devices like N900 are quite constrained for image processing needs and special work is needed to minimize consumption of memory and processing resources.

The talk will cover camera application development in Maemo 5 and plans for common set of image editing functionality for high-resolution pictures in Maemo 6. We hope to create open and extensible platform-wide solution which can help all developers to better utilize constrained resources on mobile devices.

  • Author bio

Alexander Bokovoy is a Senior Architect for Media Experience applications in Maemo Devices, Nokia. Prior joining Maemo he worked with IBM Linux Technology Center on data sharing projects, including high performance networking file systems. He is member of Samba Team since 2003.

The Maemo 5 Address Book

  • Author: Travis Reiter travis dot reitter AT collabora dot co dot uk, Mathias Hasselmann mathias AT openismus dot com
  • Intended audience: users and application developers
  • Talk type: presentation
  • Abstract/description

In Maemo 5, contacts are handled by several components that make up the Address Book. In its first part, this talk will provide an overview of the components in the new system, as well changes in the interface and functionality of the Contacts application. A lot has changed since the last major release, so this talk has a lot of interesting bits to cover!

The second part of this talk will focus on developers who want to incorporate contacts in their applications. Address Book 5 includes a powerful high-level library for accessing contacts on the system. If your application needs to present all contacts on the system, find specific ones, watch changes to the contacts, pick out avatars, start conversations, or much more, it's all here. And this library, libosso-abook, has become the ideal way to access contacts, so we'll provide some tips on porting older Maemo applications based directly on Evolution Data Server to libosso-abook.

  • Author bio

Travis Reiter is a software developer at Collabora, Mathias Hasselmann is software developer at Openismus. Both spent alot of time on improving GNOME. For the last two years they worked on improving Maemo's Address Book.

Extending the Hildon desktop

  • Author: Marc Ordinas i Llopis (marcoil), marcoil at collabora dot co dot uk
  • Intended audience: application developers/platform developers
  • Talk type: presentation
  • Abstract/description
Developers can easily extend Maemo 5's desktop, giving users new ways to view and interact with the data in their mobile device. In this talk I'll describe the basic architecture and components of the desktop and show how to extend it.
  • Author bio
Marc is a programmer at Collabora and has been working on hildon-desktop for the last year.


N900 HW architecture overview & power management

  • Author: Igor Stoppa - igor.stoppa@nokia.com
  • Intended audience: application & platform developers
  • Talk type: lightning talk
  • Abstract/description:

overview of the system HW architecture, with focus on the OMAP processor and how to write power efficient code.

  • Author bio:

Igor is project manager for the Core Team (kernel, X, production support, power management) and responsible for the overall use time; in the past he has been developing the power management solution for 770, n800 and n810.


The future of GTK+/Hildon in Maemo Harmattan

  • Alberto Garcia (_berto_) and Claudio Saavedra (csaavedra)
  • Intended audience: developers
  • Talk type: BoF
  • Abstract/description:
Nokia has recently announced that GTK+/Hildon, the official Maemo toolkit since the beginning of the project, will be replaced by Qt in the future Harmattan release.
However, Nokia has also shown interest in the availability of a community-maintained version of GTK+/Hildon for this next Maemo release, so existing applications can be ported to the new devices and developers more familiar with this toolkit can write new applications for Harmattan.
In this BoF we'll discuss the current situation of GTK+/Hildon in Fremantle, its future in the hands of the community and the challenges to overcome in order to create a decent release for Maemo Harmattan.
  • Author bio
Alberto Garcia loves computers since he got his first Sinclair ZX Spectrum. In the late 90s he began using GNU/Linux and in 2001 he co-founded Igalia, a Galicia-based free software company. He's currently working on the new version of the Hildon toolkit for the new release of Maemo, codenamed 'Fremantle'. Besides programming, Alberto also loves cinema, music and going to the beach.
Claudio Saavedra is a chilean Computer Engineer, working at Igalia since 2008. He got involved in the GNOME project back in 2005 and is one of the developers of the Eye of GNOME Image viewer. Currently, he is also working in Maemo 5, codenamed 'Fremantle', developing the Hildon library and also maintaining other parts of the toolkit stack.


Introducing the Harmattan UI framework

  • Author: Tomas Junnonen - tomas.junnonen at nokia.com
  • Intended audience: application developers
  • Talk type: presentation
  • Abstract/description:
The transition from Fremantle to Harmattan will bring a new UI style to Maemo. The demand for fluid, animated user interfaces and new interaction mechanisms are putting new demands on the type of frameworks offered to application developers.
This presentation gives a sneak peek at what's currently cooking in Harmattan. We will share our initial thoughts and plans regarding the future of the Maemo application framework.
  • Author bio:
Tomas has been working in Maemo since the original Nokia 770. Today he is the architect of the application framework, designing the next generation Maemo user interface framework.

Test framework tool for Maemo devices

  • Author: Carlos Aguiar - carlos.aguiar@indt.org.br, Fabio Almeida - fabio.almeida@indt.org.br, Luiz Nagata - luiz.nagata@indt.org.br and Jyrki Sippola - jyrki.sippola@nokia.com
  • Intended audience: users/platform developers
  • Talk type: presentation/demo
  • Abstract/description:
Companies usually develop their own tools for test and monitoring consoles directly into their products but these applications tools, in general, do not go out of production place and are not deployed for platform developers and final consumers. These solutions are closed and just for company use. The open source community provides many tools to test different functionalities like keyboard, display, wi-fi and so on, but they do not work together as an integrated solution.
The proposal is to integrate different functional tests into a test framework tool for Maemo devices. This framework will be able to communicate with different test applications, control them, gather information and report status results, helping developers and users to identify problems, perform reliability tests and gather statistics. Also, it will be possible to extend this framework to support new test types.
For demo presentation purposes the framework will run the following functional tests: keyboard, camera, audio, display and wi-fi.
  • Author bio:
Carlos, Fábio and Luiz are software developers at Nokia Technology Institute (INdT) at Manaus/Brazil working with Linux, Maemo and device tests. Currently we are involved on project that aims to build software solutions to guarantee quality on devices. Jyrki is responsible for manufacturing test related research projects at Nokia.
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