Maemo community is again participating in Google's Summer of Code

The Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers student developers salaries to write code for various open source software projects. Sponsored by Google, they: maemo.org was involved in 2009, after organisation efforts by Valério Valério. His efforts this year have also resulted in the Maemo community being named as one of the organisations participating. Project ideas will now be submitted which will get whittled down and students allocated.


Ten candidates for March 2010 Maemo Community Council election

It's election time again and this year's Community Council election is more important than any other in the past, due to one word: MeeGo. Elections start on Wednesday, 24th March and run for a week. Eligible voters will receive voting tokens and instructions from Dave Neary. The voting is counted by "single-transferrable vote", meaning that if your first choice candidate isn't going to win, your vote for your second choice candidate is taken into account. Ten candidates are standing (Ryan Abel, Randall Arnold, Andrew Black, Attila Csipa, Andrew Flegg, Andrea Grandi, Cosimo Kroll, Javier S. Pedro, Arek Stopczynski and Steven Yeager). The page below lists summaries of their declarations and links to other various comments and Q&A sessions they've been involved in. Sanjeev Visvanatha is pulling together an extended blog-posting having asked a series of questions of all of the candidates.



In this edition...

1. Front Page
   • Maemo community is again participating in Google's Summer of Code
   • Ten candidates for March 2010 Maemo Community Council election
2. Applications
   • First release of PhotoTranslator application
   • Sygic Mobile Maps for Maemo Europe available for purchase
   • New Twitter client renamed to TweeGo
3. Development
   • Qt 4.7's "QtDeclarative" may help N900 run MeeGo and Symbian Qt apps with "little or no extra effort"
4. Community
   • First MeeGo Technical Steering Group (TSG) meeting: Weds, 24th March
   • MeeGo community forums to be powered by vBulletin
5. Devices
   • After CNET article, Nokia say "door is not closed" to MeeGo on N900
   • PR1.1.1 finally released for UK firmware users
6. Announcements
   • Cosimo Kroll (zehjotkah) running for council
   • Andrew Flegg (Jaffa) running for the council
   • Attila Csipa (achipa) running for council

Heh... regarding "After CNET article, Nokia say "door is not closed" to MeeGo on N900"-- blew me away that engadget clearly credited me this time. You should have seen the traffic my blog got after I took the CNET writer to task.