Maemo Community election: nominations open

The next Maemo Community Council will have their work cut out for them with the large shifts in Maemo caused by the MeeGo announcement. Dave Neary has opened the nominations for the next six-month term of the community council. Eligible candidates can be nominated by anyone in the community (although they have to accept the nomination to make it on to the ballot paper) or can put themselves forward as a candidate: At the time of writing, only Randall Arnold and Andrew Black are candidates in the field. Nominations will be accepted until 16th March, but if you're thinking of standing - announce early and announce often!



In this edition...

1. Front Page
   • Maemo Community election: nominations open
2. Applications
   • Command line sharing plugin allows SCP and private webserver publishing
   • Quick Launch provides four shortcuts to apps on status menu
   • OCR hack whilst waiting for PhotoTranslator
3. Development
   • New QA rules for command line applications wanting to get into Extras
   • Mer^2 snapshot 40 - hackers needed to complete Fremantle backport
   • Integrating MADDE & Qt Creator on Windows & Mac OS X for easy cross-platform Maemo development
   • ...and 2 more
4. Community
   • Nokia's Maemo Developer Advocate is Ronan Mac Laverty
5. Devices
   • Hardware hacking to convert N810 to into cellphone
   • MeeGo initial low-level build by end of month, targetting Atom & N900
   • Home-made solar charger
6. Announcements
   • Prismic Wallpaper Manager
   • Intel & Orange announce Atom-focused MeeGo services tie-up
   • Array: stylish, simple, grey/black theme
   • ...and 2 more