Developer call: Mozilla/Maemo Danish Weekend
 

Developer call: Mozilla/Maemo Danish Weekend
http://maemo.org/news/announcements/...anish_weekend/

The Maemo and Mozilla projects are organizing a joint developer camp in Copenhagen the last weekend of May. If you are working on Fennec, Fennec add-ons and Maemo 5 applications this call is for you! The meeting is open and free, although registration is needed for planning purposes.

WHEN
May 30-31 + Friday night party (29th).

WHERE
IT University of Copenhagen, easily accessible and conveniently located
between the airport and the city center. There will be a hall + 3 rooms
for hacking and an auditorium for presentations (follow the link above
for map and pictures).

WHAT
This hands-on developer meeting is all about getting software ready for
end users. Both Fennec and Maemo 5 will be in beta stage and approaching their final releases. Code, test, fix, improve... and have fun!

Focus areas:

• Fennec add-ons.
• Mozilla core development common to Fennec and the Maemo browser.
• Maemo applications: Fremantle Stars + other community projects willing to join.
• Mer, aka the Maemo 5 community edition for N810/N800.

Check http://wiki.maemo.org/MozillaMaemoDanishWeekend to know more about the Danish Weekend schedule and to get additional information. See you there!

--
Your Mozilla-Maemo Garage Committee

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Good news! Consider to make possible for user to click on .ics so they can easily add to agenda. Have this published on Maemo.org under the announcement, and also have an agenda specific subsite. In current design it'd fit on the right of the website I'd say. Or even allow subscribtion over WebDAV. Here is an example of .ics (must unzip it first since .ics not allowed to upload). This is also great for other events, and in the future, perhaps even deadlines. Ofcourse approx still means approx. Especially useful if Maemo 5 can handle iCalendar.

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You can upload the .ics anywhere and then link it from the wiki page. I'm not a calendar freak myself but if you are into Google Calendars, Facebook vents and such do not hesitate to help the promotion of the event creating whatever entries. Thanks!

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Niels is setting up the interface to handle sponsorship requests, the same that was used in the Maemo summit.

Developers directly involved in the Fremantle Stars projects have priority, as well as developers with interesting applications available in the Fremantle extras-devel repository. Also of course Firefox/Fennec add-on developers. And the Mer contributors.

Council members and maemo.org team members are invited to join as well.

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I never created a Facebook event, so here we go: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=68342912828

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Developers short on budget can apply for travel sponsorship now:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Mozilla_Maemo_...nd#Sponsorship

Selection criteria:

* Developers of Fennec add-ons, Fremantle Stars and the Mer project. Link to your projects and get references from lead developers.
* Developers of cool software for average users available in Fremantle extras-devel.
* Other key Maemo contributors with high karma and a concrete development plan for the weekend.

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For the people interested in helping out in the Mer focus area on the developer meeting, I've put up my high-level and sub goals for the focus area on the wiki. Quoting straight from wiki:

The high level goal of this focus area is to bring Mer closer to 1.0, which is meant to be the first day-to-day usable release on Nokia Internet Tablets. Maemo5 will be in beta stage at this point and and we should be able to provide Fremantle APIs and a Maemo4 replacement to Nokia N8x0(W) users when Maemo5 is out.

The hope is to be able to use the synergy of bringing so many Maemo and Mer related personalities together, to be able to move ahead on things that would take longer if having to be done online.

Sub-goals, which serve as guidelines for activities:

* Control panels to be able to control behavior of your tablet.
* Developer tools - builders, cross compilation environments and IDEs
* Artwork and UI design: Icons, themes, backgrounds, animations, shining up interfaces through code, etc.
* Hardware interfacing and event-reaction daemons (implementing behavior similar to or better than Maemo4)
* Integration with maemo.org both on a organizational (relation to council, community) and technical level (package and image builders, repositories)
* Alignment with Maemo5 APIs and integration of Nokia-closed software in restricted images.
* Chasing down showstopper bugs which would hinder user adoption of Mer 1.0.
* Discussions on Mer after 1.0 and presentations on Mer to potential users and developers.
* Getting the Mer project developers and contributors together for the first time.

So, here's the deal. You can probably already see areas that need improvement, based on your experience with our release images up until now.

If you're interested in helping out and have time and ability to show up for the developer meeting, go to http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/HackfestCopenhagen09 . There you can edit&copy the template, and then follow the instructions.

We hope to use this information to structure the development better within the Mer area (and our development up to the time of the developer meeting).

If you would like to request sponsorship for travel and accommodation, point me to your intentions (private message me here or mail me), and I'll make a reference based on your intentions, expertise, past contributions if any and how your intentions fit in the overall goals of the Mer focus area.

If you intend to request sponsorship, please publish your intentions (and get a reference) as soon as possible so Nokia has time to work it out.

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... and Maemo developers related to GSOC projects.

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http://wiki.maemo.org/Mozilla_Maemo_Danish_Weekend updated. It should contain all the information CRITICAL to make you decide whether to go or not. If there is something essential missing let us know.

The venue is a nice place. Have you seen the pictures?

The schedule is in embrionary state. There are slots available for 15' presentations/demos and 30-120' project meetings in the auditorium or any of the rooms available. Edit the wiki to put your own activities in the schedule.

http://wiki.maemo.org/Mozilla_Maemo_...d/Participants has 45 participants coming from 18 countries. Definitely an international event! Please register if you are planning to come so we can organize better things like the free lunch and party.

We have sponsored a dozen of developers and there is still budget to sponsor some more. If you are a community member developing cool stuff for Maemo or Fennec you can still request sponsorship. But you need to be QUICK since the flight tickets are more expensive every day and our budget is certainly limited.

You can support this event by promoting it: please FORWARD and BLOG!

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http://somethin-else.org/public/.Picture_4_s.jpg

Nice artwork! :)

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That is cool. :)

Tim

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Cute and informative. Looks cool. :D

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Can some help sticking that image at http://wiki.maemo.org/Mozilla_Maemo_Danish_Weekend ? I'm not that good anymore handling images in MediaWiki.

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I'll do it now.

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Done now.

http://wiki.maemo.org/Mozilla_Maemo_Danish_Weekend

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Thanks! In the meantime I published http://flors.wordpress.com/2009/05/1...anish-weekend/

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If you are attending to the event please register so we can have enough sandwiches, drinks and memorable shirts.

Currently there are 61 participants registered from 20 countries, although there are 25 confirmed guests in Facebook and many of them are missing in the real list...

Any help promoting this event is appreciated. Forwards, microblogs, planets... you name it.

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78 developers registered. The Mozilla camp is waking up and I wonder if there will be more Maemo developers showing up. Out of curiosity. :)

Those of you planning to attend, please upload your Fremantle projects to extras-devel. Currently many applications can't be installed due to missing dependencies (basically the Python family). Hopefully we all be able to solve the problems before meeting in Copenhagen.

If you are attending the Danish Weekend and you have Fremantle stuff that more or less works you should showcase it in the auditorium! Please let us know if you are interested. We will be working on the schedule in the following days (finally). B)

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Added a page regarding when people arrive to help them group together and get to the hotel, see http://wiki.maemo.org/Mozilla_Maemo_...Weekend/Travel

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Well, just stopped by to wish people a good time, I hoped to make it there myself, but a little visa magic made that impossible, so, make a lot of pics and videos of the event and the presentations for the rest of us !

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Curious, who from maemo.org side is responsible to represent us in schedules and such done for the weekend?

I am just wondering a bit if it's a collaborative effort from maemo.org side - for instance the auditorium is blocked with Mozilla sessions first half of the saturday with only a Maemo starter?

Wouldn't it be saner to mix the Mozilla and Maemo sessions in order to get everyone a proper start of the weekend?

Example: Fennec tutorial, then Hildon tutorial, then Mozilla extensions tutorial, then SDK, then Mer introduction, then moving even more into specifics and specialized areas. That means people can move on out into the hall when they've had their level of input and get hackin' and discussing? - and returning to hear presentations within their specialized areas?

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hi guys,

quick question how many of you are bringing a laptop?
i like to travel light, but i don't wanna be the only one programming/compiling
on the tablet :)

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I will bring a laptop personally .. and a N800, a SmartQ5 and a Freerunner.. :P

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The fact is that the Mozilla crew is more homogeneous: some core developers of the browser itself + a bunch of add-on developers. They take the chance to meet and discuss about things.

Compared to that the Maemo groups i far more heterogeneous: some Fremantle Stars projects, some other extras-devel projects, Canola, some other GSoC projects, Mer... We have less common reasons to stay all in a room for presentations, so to say.

You can also tell this from the scheduling of sessions. I have been asking developers here and there to propose sessions and we have got some but the process has been / is quite... disconnected? William from the Mozilla prohect (my counterpart) was also asking for an agenda until he called everybody and some hours later they had an agenda.

They are, at the end, one project and we are many.

Still, we have a whole Saturday afternoon. Can we feel it with sessions? Should we?

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Also the main purpose is to work targetting Maemo 5, and I guess a laptop makes your developer life easier for that. :)

In any case PLEASE UPLOAD YOUR SOFTWARE TO FREMANTLE EXTRAS-DEVEL. This way it will be much easier for others to test your stuff and give you instant feedback.

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Yeah - I just noticed your post earlier in this thread and I take my words back in my post - we had all the possibility to influence schedule when time was. :)

The Mozilla organization is certainly impressive!

Me and lbt can definitely present for Mer (as indicated) and have prepared extensively for such - and I think it's worth to showcase Fremantle stars, Mer, extras and so on still.

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Really bummed that I'm missing the weekend. Would of loved to attend with my camcorder and laptop in tow especially as I have a nice new video editing suite in my home office now :)

If anyone has raw video footage from the weekend that they want editing then send it my way and I'll gladly donate my services.

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Waking up early in Helsinki, ready to go to Copenhagen. I wonder how we all could mae a best use of microblogging in the Danish Weekend.

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Ah, but I offered to do that! ;)

Tim

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The last Ubuntu summit had some kind of microblog feed. I don't know how was that done. Hash tag? I'm travelling and quite online today but if someone can setup something we will advertize and follow the instructions.

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#mozmer tag? If you do it, I'll follow it!

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Mmm "#mozmae" if you don't mind. :)

So the only thing needed is to add "#mozmae" in the microblogs? Works in twitter only or also identi.ca etc? I've never done this thing before.

Also, Maemo schedule:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Mozilla_Maemo_...ekend#Schedule
http://wiki.maemo.org/MozillaMaemoDa...nd/MaemoTopics

Please refine (specially the Mer project)

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Around 80 people in the beer party (or beer chat, to describe it more accurately). Good balance between Mozilla and Maemo and already many cross-project chats. The Mer guys actually took a passive positioning, sitting in the geometric center of the venue with a Mer advert in the table so people, like bees, would fly and join.

Also the #mozmae hash tag started to work: http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23mozmae

William (my Mozilla counterpart) mentioned that he would create a #mozmae chat room as well. It will be announced in the wiki page when ready.

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See also http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/mozmae/

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I unfortunately missed the beer party because of another event in Salzburg. But for the rest of the event, there are my notes on Qaiku.

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Forum admins, please remove the 'sticky' from this thread.

Thanks.

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Done. Thanks for the reminder.

Tim