Meeting held on FreeNode, channel #maemo-meeting (logs)

Attending: Joerg Reisenweber (DocScrutinizer05), Ruediger Schiller (chem|st), Michael Demetriou (qwazix), Paul Healy (sixwheeledbeast), Gido Griese (Win7Mac), warfare, Jussi Ohenoja (juiceme).


Absent:

Summary of topics (ordered by discussion):
- Proposals for next contest
- Proposing date and time for the next meeting
- Things to be settled with Nokia
- PayPal account


Topic (Proposals for next contest):

• There were few ideas presented;
  • Native opensource applications for SailfishOS
  • Fremantle porting Hackathlon/Contest
  • Multiplatform SW Contest.
• It was pointed out that before a proposal for a contest could be taken into consideration funding for the prizes should be cleared out.
  • If contest would be about apps for Jolla, then Jolla should donate for the contest
  • If contest would be about Fremantle porting, then funding could be arranged from neo900.org

Topic (Proposing date and time for the next meetings):

• It was agreed that meetings would be held every tuesday 20:00 UTC

Topic (Things to be settled with Nokia):

• DNS/domain ownership transfer is imminent.
• Firmware and flashing tools cannot be transferred.

Topic (PayPal account):

• The maemo donation PayPal account is still frozen. Workaround is to use the account of Joerg instead.
• Joerg told that generally the donations sum up to 20...30 eur/month. Infra costs come up to 60 eur/month.

Action Items:

• N/A

Link: Original article.

I definitely would love to see a contest specifically related to porting applications to Fremantle. I am very happy with what is currently available for the N900, but there are a couple of applications available on Harmattan that would be great to have on Fremantle.

If the Neo900 hardware implementation succeeds, porting efforts that were previously held back by the N900s' processing power may actually become worthwhile again.