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What is the Maemo community up to for FOSDEM 2010 (Brussels, 6-7/feb)

The time to organize the basics is right now.

http://wiki.maemo.org/FOSDEM_2010

Thinking of it maemo.org really brings many communities together. This matches very well with the new ideas of FOSDEM to increase cross project interaction.

Apparently we fit in all categories I see here and we should definitely be omnipresent at this great event
http://www.fosdem.org/2010/

The call for maemo developer for the schedule app is also a great opportunity to showcase the many aspects of maemo.
http://www.fosdem.org/2010/news/andr...elopers-wanted

In the qgil's link above you can state your interest please do so.

There is some grumbling in the debian community about the change from dev rooms to distro rooms, and I agree. The dev rooms were crowded, but you could have talks in them which is what they were used for. Now one doesn't know the layout or acoustics of the distro rooms but I doubt we'll have the same opportunity for maemo only talks, or we'll have to take turns in the various distros talking, which might not be so great.

Hopefully FOSDEM will provide us with both the older dev rooms and the newer distro rooms so that we can have dedicated tracks, be they debian, maemo, or whatever.

8 people at http://wiki.maemo.org/FOSDEM_2010#Attendees

Cool! We need more to reach critical mass though.

Can someone not busy with the Maemo-Marcelona Long Weekend push this forward? I don't have more mental RAM available and it would be a pity to miss important deadlines because of this.

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Originally Posted by qgil (Post 365485)

Can someone not busy with the Maemo-Marcelona Long Weekend push this forward? I don't have more mental RAM available and it would be a pity to miss important deadlines because of this.

I can help a bit, but I'm not sure what's needed, since I missed most of the discussion around it.
I can't compromise with the organization right now, because I don't know if I'll be able to attend. I hope to start my professional activity outside University around that date and don't know where yet :).
Anyway I'll try to find a voluntary to coordinate this initiative ;).

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Originally Posted by VDVsx (Post 365923)

Valerio found a volunteer - I can help co-ordinate with the FOSDEM organisers & ensure that we have some facilities available (who has been in contact up until now? Can they put me in direct contact?) - I'd like help co-ordinating the content & attendees from the Maemo community side of things, though.

Dave.

Great! Tomorrow I will put things in sync with you and the organizers.

Let's do it differently. Given the current people interested and what you think we can grow in terms of interest, what do you propose to do in FOSDEM?

I'm also willing to help in any way I can.

How about a DevRoom? A room where we organise a stream of talks on Maemo, the N900 and the Maemo Community. How about we do what GNOME have done in the past, and share a half day with Debian? So we would have some talks specifically about Debian derivatives, including Maemo. And why not share the FDO room for a half day too, if they are having one again this year?

So Maemo activity would roughly be:
1 day Maemo-specific content
.5 day engaged with fd.o/GNOME/KDE
.5 day engaged with Debian

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Originally Posted by dneary (Post 372755)

I like the idea, but a 'mobile room' wouldn't be more suitable ? (Gnome mobile, moblin,...)

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Originally Posted by VDVsx (Post 372924)

I like the idea, but a 'mobile room' wouldn't be more suitable ? (Gnome mobile, moblin,...)

First step is to confirm with FOSDEM organisers that we're interested in something - I'm sure they have ideas too.

Quim, is it you that is in contact with them now?

Dave.

Any movement on FOSDEM planning?

Their deadline is on the 22nd of November - it would be a shame to not be represented in some way. I'm willing to help out, but might not have internet access this weekend as I'll be on the road....

I've been waiting for Quim to respond to my offer to get in contact with FOSDEM organisers and the suggestions I had for participation.

There is an alternative: don't take a dedicated hack-room, but participate actively & ensure that there are Maemo related sessions in the Debian, GNOME and KDE hackrooms.

Quim, can you update on whether you still want me to take over co-ordination of this?

Dave.

Dave connected to FOSDEM organizers and also to the Mozilla team since were discussing about the possibility to collaborate in some sessions around Firefox Mobile.

Stand yes/no? I can help putting some hours there. We can also fund some merchandising for the occasion.

I'd say yes to stand. We need a volunteer co-ordinator to ensure the stand is manned all the time by a couple of people, and knowing myself at conferences, I would not be a good guy - I'm rarely on stands :}

Cheers,
Dave.

I'd gladly do it. :D

On the other hand I end up chatting with people a lot next to stands, so I can choose to chat in our stand. As long as I can scape to some sessions...

Posted by Dave in the maemo-community mailing list:

> Hi all,
>
> Deadlines are approaching for various Maemo related FOSDEM devrooms:
>
> KDE: http://dot.kde.org/2009/12/15/speake...ed-fosdem-2010
> Deadline: Jan 3rd
>
> GNOME: http://live.gnome.org/Brussels2010/Devroom
> Deadline: Jan 8th
>
> Crossdistro: http://fosdem.org/2010/distrominiconf
> Deadline: None listed
>
> Embedded / Mobile: No call for content published yet (apparently there
> is one, but I have not seen it)
>
> Crossdesktop: Freedesktop.org content goes here! I'd like to see talks
> related to what we're doing with Tracker, upstart, d-bus, Gstreamer and
> all of the other cross-desktop components we work with
> Deadline: Proposals go through GNOME & KDE calls, I think.
>
> Let me know if you want to participate, so that we can co-ordinate
> sessions across different streams - and get your talks in before
> Christmas! Time is running short, and between Mer and Maemo 5 we have a
> lot to tell the world about.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.

Hi,

Just received the call for papers for the mobile track - the deadline is 5/1:

CALL FOR PAPERS for the 8th EMBEDDED and MOBILE track at FOSDEM 2010
================================================== =======

sat 6 - sun 7 February 2010, Brussels

Call for papers
----------------

The 2010 edition of FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developers' European
Meeting; http://www.fosdem.org) will take place in Brussels, Belgium
on 6 and 7 February 2008. For the sixth time, a track on Embedded
Systems and Operating Systems will be organized. The fourth edition
was quite succesful and attracted up to 150 attendants for certain
topics.

For last year's program see:
http://archive.fosdem.org/2009/schedule/tracks/embedded

The use of Free Software in the infrastructure of Embedded Systems
is booming, e.g. by the use of Linux, uClinux, eCos, RedBoot, RTEMS
and many other Free Software components. More companies are supporting
Embedded Free Software every day because of the reliability and cheap
licensing. This can be confirmed from looking at some high profile
releases of embedded GNU/Linux systems. Some examples are the Nokia N900,
Archos media players, TomTom navigation system, the numerous SOHO routers
and NAS devices based on linux. Let's not forget Samsungs Bada plans or
Googles Android.

Operating System development has always been a very important topic in
Free Software.
As embeddedi, mobile and real-time systems typically have special OS
requirements, we organise this embedded and mobile track at
FOSDEM to give people the opportunity to present their (or their teams)
achievements.

This track at FOSDEM provides a remarkable opportunity to present and
discuss the ongoing work in these areas, and we invite developers to
present their current projects. Technical topics of the conference
include but are not limited to :

* OS Development : kernel architecture and implementation, libraries, power
management, TIPC, boot time and memory usage optimizations
(e.g. Linux, BSD, uClinux, uClibc, newlib, slob allocator,...)

* Practical experiences in implementing Free Software in embedded
systems (e.g. consumer electronics, NAS devices, routers, gateways, ... )

* Toolchain, performance testing and build environment
(e.g. crosstool, emdebian, openembedded, PTX dist, packaging,
scratchbox, Eclipse, Valgrind,...)

* GUIs for embedded systems
(Gtk, Qt-(embedded), GPE, Qtopia, UI design with touchscreen,
Hildon GUI extensions, OpenMoko, OpenGL ES, Maemo...)

* Multimedia applications for embedded systems
(e.g. integer only decoders, gstreamer, interfacing with hardware media accelerators... )

* Real-time extensions, nanokernels and hardware virtualization software
(e.g. RTAI, Adeos, KURT, L4, Qemu, User Mode Linux, VirtualLogix,
high resolution timers, ...)

* Hard real-time OS's
(eCos, RTEMS, Real Time Linux,...)

* Open hardware, DSP, softcores and general hardware management
(e.g opencores.org, OpenRISC, leonSparc, FPGA's, specific design
restrictions for free systems, DSP, Power management...)

* Safety and security certifications applied to Free software
(e.g. security measures in Embedded systems, TPM, SELinux
for embedded, TrustZone, ...)

* Tools and techniques for programming multicore systems

* Free software licenses and embedded systems

Authors that wish to present a topic are requested to submit their
abstracts online to embedded_at_fosdem.org before 05/01/2010. Notification
of receipt will be sent within 48 hours. Authors wishing to submit a
full paper (between 6 and 12 A4 pages), can do so in PS or PDF format.

The Program Committee will evaluate the abstracts and consists of:

* Geert Uytterhoeven, Sony NSCE, Belgium
* Peter De Schrijver (p2), Nokia (Maemo software), Finland
* Philippe De Swert, Nokia (Maemo software), Finland
* Klaas van Gend, MontaVista Software, The Netherlands
* Michael Opdenacker, Free Electrons, France

Attila77 and I will be working on a whitepaper covering improved feedback, testing and bug reporting infrastructure... not sure if I see a place for it in that agenda though. But I will of course keep everyone updated on what we develop.

EDIT: for the time being I am calling this a "user experience API", to include app testing, bug reporting and app feedback/suggestions/rating.

EDIT 2: Brainstorm on the subject here-- http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=38014

The Maemo FOSDEM app is now available, just in the nick of time. Fremantle-only sadly.

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Originally Posted by lma (Post 510173)

The Maemo FOSDEM app is now available, just in the nick of time. Fremantle-only sadly.

According to this it's source compatible.

Edit: removed obsolete (there is a newer source release, and FOSDEM 2010 is now over anyway) attachments.

Is this just a specific-purpose schedule application? To be uninstalled after FOSDEM? I couldn't find a detailed description.

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Originally Posted by Texrat (Post 510844)

Is this just a specific-purpose schedule application? To be uninstalled after FOSDEM? I couldn't find a detailed description.

It is for now, but since it's GPL and reads standard .ics calendars it shouldn't be too hard to adapt it into a general tool for other events.

For more details see http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/phone, http://fosdem.org/2010/news/android-...elopers-wanted and the thread starting here.

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Originally Posted by qgil (Post 517275)

Wow: http://europeaninvestor.com/SiteFile...wtLang=English

This just redirects to the home page :-( Based on google results, was it related to this?