Registration open for MeeGo Conference 2011 in San Francisco

It was announced after the Dublin conference last year that MeeGo Conferences would fall every 6 months, with a community-oriented conference in the Fall and an industry conference in the Spring. Registration has now openned for the Spring conference: The hotel situation for attendees requesting sponsorship wasn't completely clear from the forms. Amy Leeland posted to resolve the confusion: reserve your room, input your card (nothing will be charged if you cancel by May 9th) and the approved attendees will have their rooms put on the master account. If your sponsorship request is not approved, simply cancel your reservation before May 9th.

So those of you requesting sponsorship can go ahead and register for the conference and reserve your room. Just remember to cancel before May 9th if you wont be attending.


Valtteri Halla to join Intel, after leaving Nokia

One of the higher-profile corporate departures after the Elopocalypse was of Valtteri Halla (of the MeeGo Technical Steering Group) from Nokia. We covered the news in last week's issue, but the results of the move weren't particularly clear, particularly where this leaves the TSG. Although things aren't much clearer this week, the situation has become somewhat more interesting. From a recent tweet: Valtteri currently play's Nokia's part in the TSG, which leaves Nokia unrepressented (unsurprising and unworrisome given their recent shift in corporate strategies). More complicating is that it leaves Intel holding complete control over final say in the project. It's unlikely that Intel would abuse this position, but it seems to hold the potential to scare away other companies from the project if it's viewed as a "By Intel, For Intel" operation.



In this edition...

1. Front Page
   • Registration open for MeeGo Conference 2011 in San Francisco
   • Valtteri Halla to join Intel, after leaving Nokia
2. Applications
   • Bookmarking N900 browser's password manager
3. Development
   • Prototype transitions.ini editor for Maemo CSSU
   • Reverse engineering the Maemo 5 dialer app
   • Imad Sousou gives timeline for open sourcing of Tablet UX
   • ...and 4 more
4. Community
   • Community Council elections update
   • Call for Papers for MeeGo Conference 2011 in San Francisco open
   • Birmingham (UK) MeeGo meetup
5. Devices
   • Nokia "N950" will be N900 successor, running MeeGo
   • Developer Edition of MeeGo 1.2 for N900
6. In the Wild
   • Bonuses offered by Nokia to MeeGo-based employees to stay
   • Nokia sells Qt licencing business
7. Announcements
   • The Return of Panucci (0.99.0 for Fremantle)
   • Paper Toss for Maemo
   • Kasvopus, a Facebook app for "the rest of us"