The Akademy 2010 organizers would like to invite our community to the event:

"Akademy will take place in Tampere, Finland, from July 3rd to 10th. We would like to invite the Maemo community not only to attend the event but also to participate

Our program committee is looking for talks, workshops and BoF proposals. The main topics are "KDE Beyond The Linux Desktop" and "Social Desktop", but we are also interested in other topics relevant to the KDE community. Please find more information here: http://akademy.kde.org/call-for-papers.php

If you have questions about the CfP, please contact the program committee: akademy-talks at kde dot org" - Claudia Rauch, Business Manager KDE e.V.

The deadline for all submissions is Friday, 23 April 2010

I think this will be a good venue for the Maemo User Experience Framework presentation.

I am clearing my schedule just in case....

Another update from Claudia after I emailed her:

Ok, so far no activity here... so let's get at least a discussion underway! I am going to start off assuming no Maemo sponsorship to be on the safe side, so it makes sense to focus first on potential attendees in and around Tampere. Any takers?

Note: I am planning to attend and hope to present my work-in-progress on the proposed Maemo User Experience Framework. The only thing that would keep me from going is lack of a place to stay as I cannot afford a hotel. So if any of my friends in Tampere/Helsinki have a floor I can crash on it would be appreciated.

EDIT: I will plan on partnering with someone from the area just in case I can't arrange a place to stay, and my partner could give the presentation. Volunteers welcome.

Polling the community-- anyone else have plans for this event? I'm hoping we can get representation.

As of now it looks like I will not be going after all, due to American Airline mile-usage policies (after I found a place to stay, figures). That may change but I am not going to bank on it. So I still need a partner to deliver my presentation...

Okay, no one else stepped up () so I did.

I took the presentation to a higher, broader place and renamed it "Enhancing User Engagement on Mobile Devices". The talk is scheduled for July 3 as shown:

http://akademy.kde.org/program/conference#saturday

I have a preliminary presentation available for review by the community. Following are comments from my post at the project page on MeeGo:

So far not a peep from MeeGo crowd, so show 'em how it's done maemo.org! Fire away!

caveat: After thinking I had this solved, I am having trouble getting the flight arrangements handled once again so there's a possibility still that I will not make it... :/

Oops-- somehow I accidentally overwrote the uploaded presentation with an older version instead of the newest. So disregard what's up there for now. I'll fix it later today.

Oh! and my flight fiasco is solved! I'm going!

Glad you got your flight sorted. And I'll hold off commenting until you've got a newer version available. Immediate impression is generally good though.

Ok, a newer version is up!

Okay, many, MANY changes. Thans to everyone who offered advice; it was all very helpful!

I decided to increase the number of slides, but each one is no more than 30 seconds long (some much shorter).

I still have some filling out and fleshing in to do, especially toward the end. I have got to wrap this up by the end of this week...

Note that the PDF is now 50 megabytes so it might take a while to come up for you!

Link: http://maemo-daemons.org/Enhancing%2...%20Devices.pdf

*entering the "big, mean critic" mode I use for my wife's art*

You've done well in mostly eliminating the super-complex process diagrams. That mind-numbing feedback ecosystem diagram still lurks in there though. And even beyond that you could simplify further.

In many cases, you're reading slides to your audience. Your audience can read faster in their heads than you can read aloud, and once they've read what you're going to say, you're a redundant fixture in the room. They're gone.

Kill the text on those slides. You're doing a "sage on the stage" session, so you darn well better maintain your status as the most important happening in the general vicinity.

Don't be afraid to talk without your words in giant print behind you. Keep a simple image, resting in whitespace, up there instead. It doesn't need to be replaced often. It doesn't need arrows or stars or scratch'n'sniff stickers. It only needs to be loosely, symbolically tied to your talk.

You're a high energy guy. Use that! You don't have to bounce of the walls like Cliff Stoll (unless that's your thing), but be energetic and dynamic and the most exciting, interesting, and important thing going on.

PowerPoint is just boring, old, color transparencies without all the "Oops, it melted in the laser printer" mess. Never work to try to put yourself in a position where your presentation graphics are more interesting than you. Being more dull than transparencies only works for Ben Stein.

Application feedback, micropayments, cloud media storage, media rating, gaming achievements, and augmented reality are all nifty Web 2.71828 technologies, and I don't think too many people are going to argue they wouldn't benefit a platform, but how do they all fit together? I get more the feel of a laundry list than a single, cohesive theme.

Similarly, you list some existing tools (Silk, MUEF) and some theoretical ones (Diaspora), but you don't explain what they are, what strengths they bring, or how they might tie together.

How does it all fit together? What's your vision, boiled down to its bare essence? Then, what's the next step or steps toward the goal you envision?

What are the criticisms you expect from your audience? How are you heading those off as you build your presentation now?