Thread: Maemo Weekly News: 14 March 2011
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Nominations open for Maemo Community Council election

The election for the next Maemo Community Council is drawing near, with nominations about to close. Nokia's recent announcements make maemo.org, and the community council, more important than ever in the future of the Maemo Community and N900 owners everywhere. If you've ever had any interest in participating in the council, please consider nomitating yourself.
According to the election timetable, there are only two days left (until 23:59 UTC on 14 March) to add your nomination to the mix for the next term of the Maemo Community Council. To nominate yourself (or someone else), please send a declaration email to maemo-community@maemo.org. This community needs you. Don't wait until it's too late to get involved in this amazing experience!
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Nokia appoints new head for MeeGo team

Peter Schneider, Nokia's Head of MeeGo Marketing, has posted an announcement about the replacement head of MeeGo Computers at Nokia:
When Nokia announced its new strategy on February 11th, it also announced that Alberto Torres, the head of Nokia’s MeeGo Computers, would leave the company. I thought you would want to know that Sebastian Nyström has now been appointed to head the MeeGo team at Nokia. Sebastian has been leading Qt at Nokia, making the framework available under open source, free-of-charge LGPL license and now he takes responsibility for our future MeeGo efforts.
Peter then goes on to outline the three tasks which Sebastian laid out for staff as part of a memo to staff.
Read more (meego.com)



In this edition...
  1. Front Page
    • Nominations open for Maemo Community Council election
    • Nokia appoints new head for MeeGo team
  2. Applications
    • Experimenting with tactile feedback in Maemo Community SSU
  3. Development
    • Some upcoming MeeGo architecture changes
    • Proof-of-concept shows a way Qt on iOS might be implemented
    • QML Components for desktop Qt
    • camera-ui2 - a re-implementation of Nokia's closed source camera app
  4. Community
    • RM Bauer running in Maemo Community Council election
    • Stephen Gadsby nominated for Maemo Community Council
    • Timo Harkonen nominated for Maemo Community Council
    • Proposed icon for the Community SSU
  5. Announcements
    • WebOS Games Manager
    • PhoneStreamer - stream front or back cameras, with audio
    • BounceBounce - a Doodle Jump clone
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