Maemo Weekly News: 28 February 2011
 

Valtteri Halla, MeeGo TSG member, resigns from Nokia

Valtteri Halla, one of the two members of MeeGo's Technical Steering Group, has resigned from Nokia. In a tweet, he said: What this does to the make-up of the MeeGo TSG is uncertain, as is his next role.


Maemo 5 Community SSU continues apace

The recently launched Maemo 5 Community SSU is continuing to gather contributions, from developers; testers and documentation writers. Now with a changelog (maintained by Christian Ratzenhofer), the project - shepherded by Mohammad Abu-Garbeyyeh, features:

* A number of new desktop transitions;

* Portrait mode support in Application Manager, Settings and the application launcher;

* Bug fixes in hildon-desktop, Modest, X Terminal and more;

* Community patches to Modest to make it better behaved. Although still in its testing phase, future developments will see portrait mode in Modest, File Manager, Backup, Conversations and Notes; orientation locks and anything else to which you can encourage existing developers to contribute.



In this edition...

1. Front Page
   • Valtteri Halla, MeeGo TSG member, resigns from Nokia
   • Maemo 5 Community SSU continues apace
2. Development
   • Tutorial on uploading apps to Maemo Extras-devel using Qt Creator and Windows
   • Hildon-Desktop running on MeeGo IdeaPad
   • How to enable multi-touch on MeeGo ARM? (for Samsung Galaxy Tab)
   • ...and 3 more
3. Community
   • Should the Maemo Community Council manage a "Community Fund"?
4. In the Wild
   • Nokia and open source - a trial by fire
5. Announcements
   • Maemo Community Council elections approaching
   • New audio player: Someplayer