Maemo Summit 2009/Submissions
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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- 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
How to speed up your Maemo application development
- Author: Raul Herbster, raul.herbster at signove dot com
- Intended audience: Application/Platform Developers
- Talk type: presentation
- Abstract/description
- Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) positively impacts on the development process of maemo applications, increasing productivity, improving standardization and reducing coding error. In addition, IDEs definitely help maemo newbies getting started a lot quicker on technologies by providing templates and useful tools under a consistent and integrated graphical interface. IDE Integration project consists of IDEs (ESbox and PluThon), development environments for different languages (Python and C/C++) and PC-Connectivity, a tool to simplify setting up of communication between the Internet Tablet and the host PC. This presentation shows how IDE Integration can be used to help you to develop Maemo applications (C/C++ and Python).
- Author bio
- Raul Herbster has got his BSc. and Master degrees in Computer Science at Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil. He is a key developer and maintainer of the ESbox and PluThon, which are part of the official maemo IDE Integration environment. He is a Nokia Certified Trainer and Forum Nokia Champion since 2008. Currently, Raul is a senior developer of Signove and works on IDE Integration project.
Life outdoor event with Maemo
- Author: Till Harbaum
- Intended audience: everyone
- Talk type: lightning talk + outdoor thing
- Abstract/description
- Location based services are en vogue. GPXView and OSM2Go are two examples for this and a live outdoor demo can sure be real fun. While OSM2Go has a more serious background something like guided real life mapping (there are sure things close to the event that need mapping/correction) may be cool. GPXView is a fun thing and e.g. a special summit related geocache could be hidden. This needs some planning but would likely even attract some geocachers from that region. Also this could be used for some fancy promo things. There could be prizes t win (to be found in a cache) or Maemo related travel bugs could be started. Even a Maemo "geocoin" could be made for this event.
- Author bio
- Till Harbaum is a spare time maemo developer and has been working with maemo since he sold his last palm device. His projects include maemo related hardware hacks, games, the aforementioned GPXView and OSM2Go.
Writing plugins for MAFW
- Author: Iago Toral - itoral at igalia dot com
- Intended audience: platform and application developers.
- Talk type: Presentation (Tutorial)
- Abstract/description
- A tutorial on how developers can write source and renderer plugins for the Media Application Framework (MAFW). The audience will learn how to develop new plugins that provide access to new sources of media content or implement different rendering backends and how they can use these plugins from their own media applications. The tutorial will also include an introduction to MAFW for those not familiar with the framework.
- Author bio
- I am a Software Engineer at Igalia and user of the Gnome Desktop and Linux OS for quite many years. Currently I am most interested in Multimedia, specially around MAFW, for which I am one of the main developers, and GStreamer.
Creating packages for the Maemo platform
- Jeremiah C. Foster <jeremiah at maemo dot org>
- Intended audience -> application developers and platform developers
- Talk type -> presentation
- This talk will go through packaging from beginning to end providing a template to use. While one cannot go into every corner case, we can cover the entire process for the average package. In this case we will describe the process for packaging a python app since those are quite common on the maemo platform.
- Author Bio
- I am the current "debmaster" at maemo.org and have been working with the debian perl team for several years now. I have been using debian for nearly a decade.
GUPnP and Rygel: The UPnP/DLNA solution for Maemo
- Author: Zeeshan Ali, Lead-Developer at Maemo Devices, Nokia.
- Intended audience: everyone
- Talk type: presentation
- Abstract/description
- I will be introducing the work we have been putting up for the past two and half years to provide a complete well-documented solution for UPnP needs of Maemo and GNOME (Mobile) in general.
- Author bio
- Zeeshan Ali is a Lead Developer at Nokia Maemo Devices in Helsinki, Finland and a GNOME developer. He started as a GStreamer plugin and application developer and got his first share of fame in the GNOME community for his video-whale project. For the past two year, he had been obsessed with UPnP/DLNA and in turn the GUPnP and Rygel projects. Thanks to Nokia, he now work full-time on Rygel.
Handheld Glom: Easy database applications.
- Murray Cumming <murrayc at openismus dot com>
- Intended audience: application developers
- Talk type: Presentation
- Abstract/description:
- Many custom Maemo applications just need the user to navigate through some data and enter new information. Glom lets you quickly throw together a database structure and UI layout, providing a Maemo UI with no coding. You can then use Python for anything more complicated, though Glom itself already supports features such as related records, related fields, related choices, field lookups, calculated fields, and translated UIs.
- Author bio:
- Murray Cumming runs Openismus GmbH in Berlin and Munich. We work on Maemo's development platform and applications and maintain the GNOME C++ API (gtkmm). When we have extra time we work on Glom, gradually getting it ready for real-world use.
maemo.org Bug Management
- Andre Klapper, aklapper at openismus dot com, andre__ in #maemo
- Intended audience: Everyone (Users, Developers, Non-coders, ...)
- Talk type: Presentation (and discussion/BoF after that?)
- Abstract/description
- Provide an overview of the current situation in maemo.org Bugzilla and Brainstorm (stats, numbers, success cases), its people (Bugsquad), workflows, problems (especially with regard to Nokia & community participation). Inform how to participate (report in bugzilla / brainstorm; bugsquad) and how it can help Nokia developers&managers and the maemo.org community to be more productive in the Maemosphere.
- Additional Information
- I always fail to convince my laptop to work with beamers at conferences. Be warned. ;-)
- Author bio
- Andre Klapper is the maemo.org Bugmaster and works for Openismus GmbH. He is also part of the GNOME Release Team & Bugsquad.
Automatic binding generation for Qt based libraries
- Marcelo Lira dos Santos - marcelo.lira@openbossa.org - setanta on #maemo
- Intended audience: application developers/platform developers
- Talk type: presentation
- Abstract/description:
- The mantra "Qt Everywhere" certainly refers not only to platforms but also to languages which have bindings for the Qt4 libraries. Creators of bindings for Qt based libraries could also benefit of an automated generation scheme. With this in mind the generator must be a tool easy to use and extend.
- This talk will present the binding generator architecture and its use, with particular focus on the Python case, how it can be changed to generate binding source code for other languages, and problems that could arise in such tasks. We'll also show examples of applications running on top of automatically generated bindings.
- Author bio
- Marcelo is an active developer of PyMaemo project 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 Qt4.
python-mafw: MAFW framework for Python developers
- Author: Andrea Grandi (andy80), a.grandi at gmail dot com
- Intended audience: Application/Platform Developers
- Talk type: light talk
- Abstract/description
- I'll do a short introduction of this (still in development stage) python binding for MAFW, letting people know that this library exist, upgrading people about the stage of the development, showing a very short example of code and asking feedback from python applications developers to be able to understand on which tasks we should concentrate and how to improve this library.
- Author bio
- I'm a student of Computer Science at "Università degli Studi di Firenze" (Italy) and currently I'm going to spend a whole year at "Universidad Politecnica de Valencia". I follow Maemo project and the community since the arrive of Nokia 770 device, I ported Spim (a MIPS emulator) on Maemo and helped other developers fixing bugs. Last year I did a light talk at Maemo Summit 2008 about ESBox and Pluthon. Currently I'm doing a work stage at Igalia (a spanish free software company) and I'm working on a Python binding of a Maemo library.
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
Designing UI for Maemo 5 – Fit for the Product
- Mox Soini, mox.soini at movial.com
- Intended audience: Platform/Application Developers, users
- Talk type: presentation
- Abstract/description:
- How to make the applications work together as an integrated whole?
- This talk will discuss the UI Design of the Maemo 5 product as an "application portfolio". Design patterns as well as application specific designs are presented, and the reasoning for the design decisions.
- Author bio:
- Mox Soini, Interaction Designer at Movial. His work additionally includes application design and occasional code patches. He contributes to open source community also in some other projects. Soini strives for design process that is engaging collaboration, out of the box thinking and dedication to the fit and finish.