Maemo Summit 2009/Lightning talks

Contents

[edit] Saturday October 10

[edit] Giving Great Presentations

  • Dave Neary, dneary at maemo dot org
  • Intended audience: Everyone
  • Abstract/description
Giving great presentations is a learned craft. While I'm not a master story-teller, I have learned a lot over the years about the theory of giving great presentations - enough to know that most people don't do it in technical conferences. I hope to use five minutes to entertain, astound and educate the Maemo community on the skill of giving a good presentation.
  • Author bio
Dave Neary has participated in many free software projects over the years. He was release manager of the GIMP, chairman of the GNOME Foundation, and community and product manager for the OpenWengo project. He is currently the maemo.org Docmaster, a role where he works to enable the Maemo community to do great work, and an independent consultant helping companies work with and create healthy communities.

[edit] Feedhandler - Integrating RSS newsreaders with the browser

  • Author: Thomas Perl
  • Intended audience: application developers and end users
  • Talk type: lightning talk
  • Abstract/description
Introduction: From the problem of subscribing to newsfeeds and podcasts directly from within the web browser to the solution feedhandler. This is followed by a short demo and then some info for developers of RSS-related applications (RSS news readers and podcast aggregators) on how to integrate their applications with feedhandler.
  • Author bio
Thomas Perl is a computer science student from Austria, working on projects like gPodder, Tennix and Panucci.

[edit] python-mafw: MAFW framework for Python developers

  • Author: Andrea Grandi (andy80), a.grandi at gmail dot com
  • Intended audience: Application/Platform Developers
  • Talk type: light talk
  • Abstract/description
I'll do a short introduction of this (still in development stage) python binding for MAFW, letting people know that this library exist, upgrading people about the stage of the development, showing a very short example of code and asking feedback from python applications developers to be able to understand on which tasks we should concentrate and how to improve this library.
  • Author bio
I'm a student of Computer Science at "Università degli Studi di Firenze" (Italy) and currently I'm going to spend a whole year at "Universidad Politecnica de Valencia". I follow Maemo project and the community since the arrive of Nokia 770 device, I ported Spim (a MIPS emulator) on Maemo and helped other developers fixing bugs. Last year I did a light talk at Maemo Summit 2008 about ESBox and Pluthon. Currently I'm doing a work stage at Igalia (a spanish free software company) and I'm working on a Python binding of a Maemo library.

[edit] DVCS? git? - How does that work then?

  • David Greaves
  • Intended audience: application developers
  • Talk type : Presentation/demo
  • Abstract
A few years ago the world changed when DVCS systems arrived. You probably didn't notice. After all they are extraordinarily complex and unsuitable for mere mortals... aren't they?
No, they're not. I'll explain a little about git and how we use it in Mer; I'll cover the basics and then run through some more interesting issues like managing branches & patches, managing merges with upstream (useful if you are hildonising an application) and also some of my favourite tricks and tips.
There will, of course, be loads of fancy graphical effects for the eye-candy junkies.
  • Additional Information
Live web link to Gitorious would be good.
  • Author bio
David is the Mer build mentor; he's been a solutions architect at a major telco for several years but still (kinda) knows how to code. He's a passionate believer in the commercial viability of OSS. Previous contributions include kick-starting the git documentation & establishing wikis for Linux RAID and MythTV. He runs linux everywhere.

[edit] BlueMaemo - Bluetooth HID mouse & keyboard for Maemo

  • Valério Valério
  • Intended audience: users
  • Talk type: lightning talk
  • Abstract/description
BlueMaemo is a remote controller application that turns your Maemo device in a mixed Bluetooth keyboard-and-mouse device through the HID Bluetooth profile.
This presentation will be a showcase of the application new UI, some new features that will be introduced in Fremantle will be shown as well.
  • Author bio
Valério is a MSc researcher at University of Évora, Portugal. During his free time he has actively participated in several open source community's and projects.

[edit] Continous Integration with CruiseControl and Scratchbox

  • Jani Mikkonen, ext dash jani dot mikkonen at nokia dot com, rasjani @ #mer
  • Application developers / QA People
  • Lightning talk / Can extend to presentation if interest demands
  • Abstract/description
Topic is about how to harness Cruisecontrol to full build / packaging / testing and repository update cycle for development teams big and small.
  • Additional Information (optional)
Projector for showing live demostration and own laptop.
  • Author bio
Jani has been working with Maemo since Diablo/N800 on various tasks from maintenance to testing and is a long time linux user with developer & bofh background.

[edit] Conboy, Tomboy and Snowy

  • Cornelius Hald
  • Intended audience: users and application developers
  • Talk type: lightning talk
  • Abstract/description
Short introduction to Conboy and the new (not yet released) features, which are online synchronization with Tomboy/Gnote via the Snowy web service and plug-in support. Could include a demo if wanted.
  • Author bio
I'm a computer science student looking for distraction while writing my final thesis.

[edit] Ogg support status

  • Tuomas Kulve
  • Intended audience: users and application developers
  • Talk type: lightning talk
  • Abstract/description
OGG support status on Maemo: What it does and it doesn't.
  • Author bio
Tuomas Kulve has been a senior software engineer over five

years at Movial. He has been following the Maemo scene since the Nokia 770 launch.

[edit] Maemo Platform Security

  • Elena Reshetova
  • Intended audience: users and application developers
  • Talk type: lightning talk
  • Abstract/description
Lots of questions are being asked about the level of lock-down which Maemo-based devices will have - Elena will address some of those questions.

[edit] Sunday October 11

[edit] Issues on adapting Maemo 4 application to Maemo 5

  • Author: Aniello Del Sorbo, anidel at gmail dot com
  • Intended audience: Application/Platform Developers
  • Talk type: lightning talk
  • Abstract/description
Fremantle SDK brings in a whole set of new features. Many applications developed for Maemo 4 need to be adapted to Maemo 5. This lightning talk aims at presenting a list of common issues a developer will face when porting his application to the new Maemo 5 environment.
  • Author bio
Aniello Del Sorbo got his Laurea degree and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salerno in Italy. He developed the Transparent Crypted file-system (TCFS) for Linux while he was studying in Salerno. He was also a post-doc at the JHUISI - Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute in Baltimore, USA where he worked on a new approach to the DNS security.
He also is the author of the port of the note-taking application Xournal to the Maemo platform.

[edit] How to speed up your Maemo application development

  • Author: Raul Herbster, raul.herbster at signove dot com
  • Intended audience: Application/Platform Developers
  • Talk type: Lightning talk
  • Abstract/description
Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) positively impacts on the development process of maemo applications, increasing productivity, improving standardization and reducing coding error. In addition, IDEs definitely help maemo newbies getting started a lot quicker on technologies by providing templates and useful tools under a consistent and integrated graphical interface. IDE Integration project consists of IDEs (ESbox and PluThon), development environments for different languages (Python and C/C++) and PC-Connectivity, a tool to simplify setting up of communication between the Internet Tablet and the host PC. This presentation shows how IDE Integration can be used to help you to develop Maemo applications (C/C++ and Python).
  • Author bio
Raul Herbster has got his BSc. and Master degrees in Computer Science at Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil. He is a key developer and maintainer of the ESbox and PluThon, which are part of the official maemo IDE Integration environment. He is a Nokia Certified Trainer and Forum Nokia Champion since 2008. Currently, Raul is a senior developer of Signove and works on IDE Integration project.

[edit] Development Nirvana: How Maemo Application Development Should Be

In the words of Steve Ballmer, the key to a platform is "developers! developers! developers!" However, Maemo SDKs have a painful install process, supported only on x86 Linux with primitive tooling.
This talk will demonstrate how much better Maemo development can be; from cross-platform, easy-to-use Maemo SDKs to a brief runthrough of what a real, professional development environment is like. The author will also describe his perfect Maemo development environment: and whether it's something we're ever likely to see.
  • Author bio:
Andrew Flegg has been a professional software developer for over 15 years and is currently lead architect and developer for his employer's next generation application. He has been a Maemo user since the 770 launch and has been elected to the Maemo Community Council twice.

[edit] GSoC presentation: BitTorrent plugin for Canola

  • Author: Lauri Võsandi, lauri dot vosandi at gmail dot com
  • Intended audience: Everyone
  • Talk type: lightning talk
  • Abstract/description
BitTorrent plugin for Canola allows downloading material available on peer-to-peer networks and it includes wide feature set. I can have little demo of the plugin.
  • Author bio
I have been Free Software activist for a while in Estonia. I am currently studying at Estonian IT College. I am member of Estobuntu team. I was selected for GSoC and I successfully finished with my project.
http://v6sa.itcollege.ee/shared/cv.html

[edit] GSoC Project presentation: Picasa plugin for Canola

  • Andrei Mirestean, andrei.mirestean at gmail dot com
  • Intended audience: everyone
  • Talk type: lightning talk
  • Abstract/description
I'll do a short presentation of the plugin I have developed as a Summer of Code project. I will talk about the main features (picture uploading, albums management, integration with Photocast, the use of GPS .. ), some small problems that I've encountered and finally few words about the GSoC experience. Also I would like to include a live demonstration of the plugin.
  • Author bio
I'm studing Computer Science (first year, undergraduate) at the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. I've been accepted as a Google Summer of Code student for Maemo. This represented my first serious contact with the open source software, but now I'm planning to continue to help the community and develop new applications.

[edit] Behaviour-Driven Development on Maemo

  • Jose Teixeira
  • Intended audience: Application developers & platform developers
  • Talk type: Lightning talk
  • Abstract/description
What is Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)? Why BDD matters to Maemo developers? And How to setup and open-source BDD tool-chain for Maemo ? And, finally How to make BDD funnier on a N810 device with Ruby, Rspec, Cucumber and QtScript.
  • I already made a deep dive in the subject. I try now to capture the attention of others to follow.
  • Author bio
Jose Teixeira participated in the development of the Maemo Application Framework as Nokia trainer. Right now, he his a full-time researcher, teaching IT in a Finnish university as well. On his free-time, he contributes to open-source projects and incite many others to to the same.
  • After AMS Summit ...
The ran presentation is online here. Note that http://cukes.info/ and http://behaviour-driven.org/ are great sites to the ones looking for more information on BDD.
Just try it. You and your team will love it.

[edit] N900 HW architecture overview & power management

  • Author: Igor Stoppa - igor.stoppa@nokia.com
  • Intended audience: application & platform developers
  • Talk type: lightning talk
  • Abstract/description:

overview of the system HW architecture, with focus on the OMAP processor and how to write power efficient code.

  • Author bio:

Igor is project manager for the Core Team (kernel, X, production support, power management) and responsible for the overall use time; in the past he has been developing the power management solution for 770, n800 and n810.

[edit] From corporations to communities: responsible and effective engagement

  • Randall "Texrat" Arnold, fabricator at cynicalsigns dot com, http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com
  • Intended audience is Nokia PR; Nokia Maemo team; Maemo developer, tester and superuser community; other interested parties
  • Talk type : best practice/lessons learned presentation
  • Abstract/description
The presentation covers the following subject areas: general best practices in the area of corporate/community relations and how they apply to Maemo, as well as possibly a post mortem of lessons learned vis a vis community outreach from both Maemo and user perspectives (via interviews).
This will not be a "what Nokia did wrong" as much as it is a clear, appropriate guide for future public relations in the murky world of commercial enterprise meets open source development; a path forward

.

  • Author bio
I am a former Nokia employee (Alliance factory and DSNM trade customer logistics) who was a principal on the US launch team for the N800. As Quality Engineer I managed the delivery of 200 devices to CES 2007 and ensured quality on devices delivered until their production relocation to Mexico. I became one of the first Nokia employees to reach out to the new community of tablet software developers and have continued in a voluntary representative role. I also tested internal applications such as the enterprise support suite (including VPN) and field tested the N810 WiMAX Edition tablet. I also developed a prototype mobile auditing solution using the internet tablets. Today I still cover the internet tablets and their applications at http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com

[edit] Mer from a user's perspective

  • Author: Tomasz Dominikowski (dominikowski at gmail dot com)
  • Intended audience: everyone, but aimed at developers in general
  • Talk type: lightning talk
  • Abstract/description
Will cover Mer from a purposefully ordinary user's perspective, who just wants it work and get things done while using it, dishearteningly ignoring the sweat and tears of developers, who worked hard to get to this point.
Will discuss problems that may arise from raised expectations as Mer's UI starts looking very attractive, but the internals are still not up to scratch. More and more people will get attracted, with next to no clue of what Mer really is and an overwhelming sense of entitlement, the "I want my money back" kind.
  • Additional Information
Might need to show some Mer screenshots.
  • Author bio
Tomasz Dominikowski is a Linux user since 2004, a GNOME and Ubuntu translator since 2006 (Ubuntu Polish translators admin). Aviary.pl member since 2007, where I he takes care of GNOME and Novell SUSE Enterprise Desktop. In his spare time he remasters Ubuntu for the Polish community. Now involved in Mer, where he helps out by managing translations, patching, packaging, testing and making a general fuss.

[edit] Nokia PUSH N900 Project Showcase

  • Ben Mason, Hyper - ben AT hyperhappen.com and Gary Birkett
  • Intended audience: platform developers
  • Talk type: lightning talk
  • Abstract/description
Nokia has recently launched the PUSH N900 project and we'd like to take the opportunity to showcase it to the Maemo community, hopefully inspiring people to take part.
PUSH is a unique project from Nokia that brings together the world's most

skilled designers, creatives, artists, hackers, modders and coders to push the N900 and Maemo to its limits - a competition to build the most innovative hacks possible using the most advanced technology we know today.

We'll be running through the background to the project, sharing some of the

hacks we've already created and hopefully answering lots of questions and inspiring people to get involved.

Check out http://blogs.nokia.com/pushn900/ for more details.
  • Additional Information (optional)
We'll be bring a laptop, some N900 devices and most likely some other equipment to showcase some of the hacks.
  • Author bio
Ben Mason is a communications strategist responsible for the PUSH N900 project. He has worked with Nokia on a number of device and service launches. He is also a keen follower of digital culture and he writes at http://101culture.com
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