Willing to help mentor Maemo/MeeGo developers in Qt and more? See the Developer Engagement proposal
 

I'm looking for skilled people to help out at this stage, not quite ready for people wanting to learn - but soon.

If you're interested in volunteering, please see:

http://lists.meego.com/pipermail/mee...ne/001066.html

and

http://wiki.meego.com/DeveloperEngagement

Re: Willing to help mentor Maemo/MeeGo developers in Qt and more? See the Developer Engagement proposal
 

2 things that would be very useful:

- material that works for both Maemo and MeeGo;
- text that describes migration paths from Maemo to MeeGo

Re: Willing to help mentor Maemo/MeeGo developers in Qt and more? See the Developer Engagement proposal
 

I signed myself up to your list.
My main area would be to help .NET developers getting started in Qt. I have seen many of them on this forum, most of whom were distracted by the (lack of) proper tooling at the time.

Re: Willing to help mentor Maemo/MeeGo developers in Qt and more? See the Developer Engagement proposal
 

Thanks Venemo. As a VB.Net programmer I should have thought to mention that one! D'oh.

Re: Willing to help mentor Maemo/MeeGo developers in Qt and more? See the Developer Engagement proposal
 

Hehe, you're welcome! :)

I have been planning to launch a dev blog for some time, and I also wish to write Qt tutorials in it - among other topics.
(I will try to make it enrolled in the Maemo.org RSS, too... :p)

Re: Willing to help mentor Maemo/MeeGo developers in Qt and more? See the Developer Engagement proposal
 

Good points.

Most Qt material that isn't using Maemo5 specific API (QMaemo5ProgressIndicator for example) should continue to function equally well under MeeGo, so that is fairly well addressed.

I do think there will be a need for documentation on how to transform Maemo5-specific API into something that works with MeeGo, though, so perhaps that's an area that needs attention.

Re: Willing to help mentor Maemo/MeeGo developers in Qt and more? See the Developer Engagement proposal
 

3 volunteers so far. No more takers?

This could be a good way to get yourself involved and get noticed. :)

Re: Willing to help mentor Maemo/MeeGo developers in Qt and more? See the Developer Engagement proposal
 

Get noticed? *whooooosh!!!* <--- developer ego kicking in ;)

Kidding aside, this sounds rather interesting, and looking at how helpful people are on these forums already, I'd say this might turn out pretty well.

But talking about this forum: Do you plan to make the forum-related stuff in the Meego section here at Maemo Talk or will this be over at the Meego forums? Just asking because I know I'm terrible at being active in more than one community at the same time.

But no matter where, I'd really like to be of help as much as I can. Probably wouldn't be able to help on the classes thanks to the language barrier, but both the "big geeky brother" and the tutorials sound like just my cup of tea.

I'm rather new to Python and PyQt (*cough*a week*cough*), but a long background in Java development made me feel more like coming home again - despite the difference in language, I found that many of the concepts (especially the more complex ones) take the same line, so I'm positive I won't stay a complete beginner for that long. :D

Also, I'm a former web developer, so I could help both with "the other end of the line" of distributed applications and with the styles part of Qt.

I'm easily distracted and sometimes lack the creativity to come up with good tutorial topics, but as long as you can provide me with a good kick in the pants from time to time (and can deal with my hyperactive personality) I'm your man... ;)

Re: Willing to help mentor Maemo/MeeGo developers in Qt and more? See the Developer Engagement proposal
 

Not to speak for w00t, but I think it would make the most sense to have the bulk of the discussion and material at meego.com, and dive in here now and then with critical updates (and bumps).

Re: Willing to help mentor Maemo/MeeGo developers in Qt and more? See the Developer Engagement proposal
 

Cross-posting mediums again...

Existing participants (and those interested in mentoring/classes), please see: http://bit.ly/9ulHH1

Hope to see interested folks there. :)

Re: Willing to help mentor Maemo/MeeGo developers in Qt and more? See the Developer Engagement proposal
 

I will try to attend the meeting.

Re: Willing to help mentor Maemo/MeeGo developers in Qt and more? See the Developer Engagement proposal
 

Not wanting to put anyone off (!) but I am first in the queue to be mentored from the ground up. (I want to create a row counter for my knitting from a standing start of no coding knowledge as my goal!) So on behalf of potential students, thank you to the volunteers. :)

Re: Willing to help mentor Maemo/MeeGo developers in Qt and more? See the Developer Engagement proposal
 

I am currently interested in using the QMaemo5ValueButton in my Python/Qt application. I just do not know where to start, so I am looking for some guidance in that area. Thanks w00t, for organizing this!

Re: Willing to help mentor Maemo/MeeGo developers in Qt and more? See the Developer Engagement proposal
 

Mail me:
viroteck@viroteck.net

or contact me on IRC.

I'd be happy to help. :)

Re: Willing to help mentor Maemo/MeeGo developers in Qt and more? See the Developer Engagement proposal
 

Thanks! I think if I get that squared away, then I will be in a position to promote the app to -Testing! I'll definitely hit you up!

Re: Willing to help mentor Maemo/MeeGo developers in Qt and more? See the Developer Engagement proposal
 

Me too.
It'll be great!

Re: Willing to help mentor Maemo/MeeGo developers in Qt and more? See the Developer Engagement proposal
 

I would like to volunteer my skills, its about time I tried to give back to the community. My skills include QT at about an intermmediate level. Still learning the advanced stuff. QTMobility basics, C++ in general, and would be interested in mentoring and maybe running some tutorials, time permitted.

Thanks
Ehamloptiran

Re: Willing to help mentor Maemo/MeeGo developers in Qt and more? See the Developer Engagement proposal
 

Hi,

Great! Thanks for the offer!

Please see the wiki page in the original post - sign yourself up there, make sure you're subscribed to the meego-community mailing list, and make sure to attend the meeting in #meego-meeting on July 5th at 19:00 UTC to help shape how we're going to work. :)

Look forward to seeing you there!

Re: Willing to help mentor Maemo/MeeGo developers in Qt and more? See the Developer Engagement proposal
 

w00t you may want to doctor that email address so that humans can figure it out but web crawlers can't. ;)

Re: Willing to help mentor Maemo/MeeGo developers in Qt and more? See the Developer Engagement proposal
 

Points to Gmail. Let them spam away. ;)

(plus it's already in lots of e.g. source code and stuff.)

Re: Willing to help mentor Maemo/MeeGo developers in Qt and more? See the Developer Engagement proposal
 

Hehe - today I actually got the first spam mail that slipped through in more than one and a half year. :D

Btw, turns out I'll only be able to help with the Maemo part (which should be okay, since it's still Python + Qt Bindings). I'll not go for MeeGo on my N900, and sadly my netbook is out of question for installing MeeGo since it's GMA-500 based. :(

Re: Willing to help mentor Maemo/MeeGo developers in Qt and more? See the Developer Engagement proposal
 

Hi all,

The following was the summary for the 5th July meeting we had to outline/start the work on the developer engagement project: http://lists.meego.com/pipermail/mee...ly/001123.html

As mentioned - don't hesitate to contact me. :)