Re: Maemo Italian Long Weekend
 

Right now, the greatest value lies in numbers: we need headcount!

If you talk to them, make it crystal clear you're not speaking for Nokia, in any way, shape or form... there, I covered my *** pretty well on this occasion ;)


Quim, what is the standard procedure for organising an event? I believe it's still a bit premature to pick a specific venue but I do realise that people making first contact need to know what the rules are.

Re: Maemo Italian Long Weekend
 

Cool, so many locations :)
I am in contact with people from the University of Salerno where I studied, there's plenty of interest in these devices.

As for the topics, any more concrete ones?

Re: Maemo Italian Long Weekend
 

Well if you've followed the Barcelona "make-up", you'd noticed it grew pretty fast from a small event (UX meets Code) to something well beyond that.
No real rule, just throw in ideas, topics of discussions and see the follow-up.
The more the people are interested in a topic the more likely it'll be added to the agenda.

Re: Maemo Italian Long Weekend
 

Great!! A maemo Italian long weekend would be definitly fantastic :)
And of course I am interested.
I would suggest as location also other place ( we have many beautiful places in Italy :) ) like Sicily ( were I live and I can also help to find out a venue ) ... moreover if the weekend would be done in spring... what about a maemo-beach-party :D
For the topics , I suggest something to introduce maemo and the community ( mandatory topic I think ) and also some good talk on how to develop on the device.
I will contact other italian community to know more on what they would like.

Re: Maemo Italian Long Weekend
 

Sorry, I meant rules for contacting venues: what did the people who went scouting for Barcelona, Amsterdam, Copenhagen do/say? Are we looking for a space to rent or some university offering shelter would be fine?

Another topic I'd like to see, at least in the form of a workshop: tips and tricks for making an extra application fit in the system. Not just the UI, but hooks, policies, you name it.

Re: Maemo Italian Long Weekend
 

First get a potential critical mass of interest. Pinning down date and city can be done also with the help of Nokia Italy.

Re: Maemo Italian Long Weekend
 

That's what we're trying to do.
While we wait for feedback we were working out a list of potential candidate cities and dates.

Re: Maemo Italian Long Weekend
 

Ok. I'm sending message to 255.255.255.255 ;). From my n900 obviously.

BTW Milano++

Re: Maemo Italian Long Weekend
 

Sounds great for me. Since I'm from L'Aquila, I'm voting for a central city (lazy me). But for sure I'm interested, especially if there will be introductory/getting started topics (both on development and community) discussed.

Re: Maemo Italian Long Weekend
 

Hi,

Nokia Italy (together with Forum Nokia) is planning a developer event for ealry 2010, and I don't see why we can't combine those as things are still under definition. So once we have this critical mass I can take it up from the Forum Nokia side..