Second maemo.org/N900 coding competition in the works

Cosimo Kroll, one of the organisers of last year's successful "maemo.org coding competition" has mentioned that they're working on the infrastructure for the next competition, and are talking to Intel about a potential partnership: Your editor suggests ignoring the coincidence of "after MWC" and the Harmattan device announcement rumours. If he's learnt anything in the last five years, it's that holding your breath for the next device is not a good idea (you're likely to suffocate).


LWN editor "predicts" "MeeGo will be a surprisingly big success" in 2011

What Jonathan Corbet says almost always never comes true. However, it's still interesting, and a sign of how much work MeeGo has to do, that his 2011 predictions in Linux Weekly News (the inspiration for this pale knock-off) contain this at number three: Some of the commenters point to Eric S. Raymond's portrayal as webOS and MeeGo as "doomed, no-hopers".



In this edition...

1. Front Page
   • Second maemo.org/N900 coding competition in the works
   • LWN editor "predicts" "MeeGo will be a surprisingly big success" in 2011
2. Applications
   • TwimGo gets moved from Web Runtime to Qt Quick - shiny interface results
3. Development
   • QML - caching network resources
   • Trying to use RDS to auto-tune car radio & N900 FM transmitter
   • QML Scene Graph demo
4. Community
   • Cambridge (UK) MeeGo meet-up
   • Product management wiki for MeeGo
5. Devices
   • Poking through mce.ini for next Nokia MeeGo device
   • Porting MeeGo to Nexus One & Toshiba AC100
6. Announcements
   • ReSiStance RSS reader updated with updated GUI and Google Reader support
   • Media Bar for Maemo 5 (XpressMusic-esque)
   • TV-out control home plugin
   • ...and 8 more