Time running out on Nokia's $50,000 prize app competition

Nokia is running a competition, "Calling All Innovators", where the best applications submitted for their various platforms - including Maemo - can win up to $50,000 in prize money. In reminding us of the impending deadline (submissions have to be in by 03:59 UTC on Friday, 12 June), Quim Gil quoted Forum Nokia: With over 900 entries so far, the chances of a Maemo app winning one of the top four categories is small - however, there will be one good N900 application walking away with $50,000 in the developer's pockets. Your editor hopes its one of the open source applications in maemo.org's Extras; rather than a large commercial software house's Ovi Store offerings - if only due to the difference in significance the prize money would make to the recipient.


libqt4-maemo5-... packages have been deprecated and will be removed

The packaging of Qt (4.5, then 4.6 and now 4.7 experimental) for Maemo has been a pain; but erstwhile Maemo Community member Attila Csipa has been leading the charge to get it sorted. Firstly, in response to the community's requests, the experimental Qt 4.7 packages have the word "experimental" in their package name; and PR 1.2 includes Qt 4.6 out of the box. Therefore, it's now time to tidy up the mess that's been left behind by the previous experimental packages which are now shipped as standard - but with different names. Attila announced, on the Community Council blog and maemo-developers mailing lists, that the "libqt4-maemo5-..." packages were to be removed, along with any packages depending on them: If you have any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with the council (council@maemo.org), ask on maemo-developers or on talk.maemo.org.



In this edition...

1. Front Page
   • Time running out on Nokia's $50,000 prize app competition
   • libqt4-maemo5-... packages have been deprecated and will be removed
2. Applications
   • WeatherBug for Maemo 5
   • Forthcoming update to Sygic Mobile Maps 10 demoed on video
3. Development
   • Open, automated, testing of Qt changes
4. Devices
   • MeeGo UX on an Intel-based tablet device
5. Announcements
   • IBM, ARM, Linux Foundation and others announce Linaro
   • maemo-scrobbler submits listening history to last.fm
   • Portrait virtual keyboard for Maemo 5 under development
   • ...and 4 more