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MWKN Weekly News: 3 September 2012


Quim Gil leaving Nokia, joining Wikimedia Foundation

Last week Quim Gil announced he will be leaving from Nokia after more than five years with the company and joining the Platform Engineering team at the Wikimedia Foundation:
There I will help improving the volume and quality of community contributions in technical areas like QA, sysadmin and development of features for Wikipedia and related projects. I don’t need to tell you how excited (and impatient) I am about diving into such massive and complex project full of openness and freedom.
Quim has been a fantastic link between Nokia and the Maemo community, by being *part* of the community. It's been a real pleasure to work with him over the years - including the exciting times when Maemo/MeeGo was Nokia's future. We wish him well, and poignantly stop to think what could have been.
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In this edition...
  1. Front Page
    • Quim Gil leaving Nokia, joining Wikimedia Foundation
  2. Development
    • Last week of the maemo.org coding competition
    • Reverse engineered open source version of N900 virtual keyboard
    • Lipstick-powered Maemo 5-style homescreens for Nemo Mobile
  3. Devices
    • New Nemo Mobile release for N900, N950, N9 and x86
    • Android 4.1 - Jelly Bean - alpha release for N9
    • Leaked details of RM-581 - the N8-like Harmattan device from 2009
  4. Announcements
    • Mini-web server for wifi transfers updated for N900 and N9
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