Task:Remarkable community projects

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There are hundreds of community projects around Maemo, but some are especially remarkable, providing a unique contribution to the project.

Getting a list of these projects would help to

Improve their quality and promote them as ready to primetime.
Highlight to externals some of the amazing stuff the Maemo platform can offer.
Bring attention, testing, contributions, new users to them.
Indicate to Nokia what is really worth promoting in their Maemo related activities.
Cheer up the ego of promoters and contributors. :)

See also the Fremantle Stars and Killer_Apps.

1 Criteria
2 The Best of Maemo Applications

[edit] Criteria

Alive: Maintained regularly and available in the last stable release.
Open: community feedback and contributions are part of the project - open source is a very good factor but not a must.
Stable: feature set complete, installs flawlessly, works, doesn't harm the system, secure.
Finger/thumb UI: stylus to be required only in exceptional and evident cases (e.g. drawing apps).
Decent design: visually attractive and/or simple interface that works just as expected.
maemo.org active: available in extras, complete information page in Downloads.
Non commercial: Not developed by Nokia or commercial partners.

[edit] The Best of Maemo Applications

Please do not list new proposals directly here. Use the discussion page instead. These are projects that accomplish most of the criteria above. They be available in the Maemo 4.1 extras repository and offer a Download page in maemo.org. Add you comment if you think any of these candidates is not fit enough for the top selection, or belong to a different category. Apps marked with appear now in the list of featured Maemo applications.

[edit] Born for Maemo

Remarkable projects targetting primarily the Maemo platform.

Canola2 : Canola is a media consumer: photos, music, videos...local or remote, you name it.
Maemo Mapper : Most downloaded application for Maemo. Best map application. Can interact with lots of different mapping sites, including OpenStreetmap.
Maemo WordPy : Blogging software that hooks to WordPress and Blogger accounts, allows image uploads, post creating and editing, tagging. Especially notable for its finger-friendly menu.
MediaBox : A nice, simple UI for viewing photos and movies. Not as 'bare-bones' as Mplayer, not as 'tricked-out' as Canola2.
mYTube : An youtube browsing/downloading/playing application.
Numpty Physics : This game is educational, hard, fun. Made for the stylus.
Vagalume : Last.fm is my favourite music site, and Vagalume is my favourite Last.fm client.
liqbase : one of the most innovative and tablet-specific projects yet ! (-fpp)

[edit] Very nice ports

Remarkable projects successfully ported to Maemo.

MPlayer : Simple UI, provides the best playback performance for mpeg4/divx/xvid video on Nokia 770/N8x0.
Evince : Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. It currently supports pdf, postscript, djvu, tiff and dvi.
iNES , fMSX , ColEm , Speccy , VGBA - all fms's emulators - great ports of his original ones.
Xournal : A great notes/sketch utility. One of few apps that utilize the pressure sensitivity of the screen! Invaluable to create and annotate PDF documents on a pocket computer.

[edit] Outstanding utilities

Remarkable projects successful in a focused mission.

Advanced Backlight : Replaces the default Volume and Brightness applets with a unified applet that also provides rotation orientation selection.
Erminig : Allows a two-way sync between Google Calendars and the GPE calendar on the N810.
Load Applet : Because being able to see when/why the system becomes slow makes a huge difference in user experience.
Large StatusBar Clock : A configurable digital clock for the statusbar.
Maemo Recorder : Turn your N8X0 into a dictaphone. Very useful.
Mirage : Opens many file formats; allows for simple photo editing on the tablet.
mogg : Although not as ideal a solution as DSP-side decoding, the best we've got at the moment.
OMWeather : Critical app. When this didn't work for a whole day after the Diablo release, I had to look outside!
Personal Menu : Sidebar plugin, customizable menu for launching up to 36 installed applications or arbitrary commands.
WorldTV99 : TVs around the world on your tablet. Best Edutainment without monthly fee

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 * Indicate to Nokia what is really worth promoting in their Maemo related activities.
 * Cheer up the ego of promoters and contributors.  :)
+See also the [[Fremantle Stars]] and [[Killer_Apps]].
 ==Criteria==
-Propose criteria to select projects.
 * '''Alive''': Maintained regularly and available in the last stable release.
 * '''Open''': community feedback and contributions are part of the project - open source is a very good factor but not a must.
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 * '''maemo.org active''': available in extras, complete information page in Downloads.
 * '''Non commercial''': Not developed by Nokia or commercial partners.
-=== Proposals for Fremantle Stars ===
-List your proposals below. Add your comments supporting/against. Provide links to their pages at http://maemo.org/downloads to get more information, see screenshots and try them out.
-==== Release quality ====
-* [http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/maemopadplus/ Maemopad+]: pressure-sensitive sketching, available in Extras, now in development again with focus on fixing Usability issues and finger-friendliness
-*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/maemo-mapper Maemo Mapper] [[Image:Star.png]]: Most downloaded application for Maemo. Best map application. Can interact with lots of different mapping sites, including OpenStreetmap.
-*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/numptyphysics Numpty Physics] [[Image:Star.png]]: This game is educational, hard, fun. Made for the stylus.
-: Any ideas for features making the most from an Internet connection? Adding (optionally) the online dimension would be phantastic.--[[User:qgil|qgil]] 06:35, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
-:: High scores, level/content download, maybe co-op gameplay. —[[User:generalantilles|GeneralAntilles]] 08:48, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
-* [http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/scummvm/ ScummVM]: Point-and-click adventures are great for touchscreens, some free-as-in-beer games are available (Beneath a Steel Sky, etc..)
-: This is an enabler. A user can't do much twith this alone. What about proposing a specific game (or set of games) using ScummVM? --[[User:qgil|qgil]] 06:35, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
-* [http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/gpodder/ gPodder]: Finger-friendly UI, highlights the Internet aspect of the tablets (download podcasts); regular releases, many Maemo-specific UI changes; performance issues are worked on; tablet-related podcasts exist (example: [http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=27204&cmd=tc]) - downloading podcasts directly on the mobile device is a thing that you can with Nokia's tablets and gPodder, but not with iPhone/iPod touch right now
-*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/xournal Xournal] [[Image:Star.png]]: A great notes/sketch utility.  One of ''few'' apps that utilize the pressure sensitivity of the screen!  Invaluable to create and annotate PDF documents on a pocket computer.
-* [http://www.pimlico-project.org/index.html Pimlico]: PIM applications
-* [http://clay.ll.pl/osmo Osmo]: PIM solution supporting open standards (SyncML, iCal)
-* [http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/ Leafpad]: for notes taking (and script programming)
-: Too geeky for this call. --[[User:qgil|qgil]] 06:35, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
-* [http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/ Gnumeric]: spreadsheet application
-: Impressing users with a spreadheet editor? Don't get me wrong, I see the usefulness of the application but we are looking for more shiny things in this call.--[[User:qgil|qgil]] 06:35, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
-* [http://www.abisource.com/ Abiword]: document editor
-: Any thoughts on adding the real time collaborative editing feature? Still, perhaps this is another tool clearly useful but not really impressive for desktop users - nor seems to be taking many advantages of the Maemo 5 features.--[[User:qgil|qgil]] 06:35, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
-* [http://pidgin.garage.maemo.org/ Pidgin]: for instant messaging
-* [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/748 Greasemonkey] support?
-: Another enabler. It would be better to have an impressing candidate based on Greasemonkey. --[[User:qgil|qgil]] 06:35, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
-:: [http://browser-extras.garage.maemo.org/downloads_os2008.html browser-extras for OS2008]
-* [http://pymaemo.garage.maemo.org/ PyMaemo]
-: PyMaemo is great, but it says nothing per se to users. --[[User:qgil|qgil]] 06:35, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
-*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/maemo-wordpy Maemo WordPy] [[Image:Star.png]]: Blogging software that hooks to WordPress and Blogger accounts, allows image uploads, post creating and editing, tagging. Especially notable for its finger-friendly menu.
-* [http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/quiver/ quiver]: image viewer
-* [http://www.fbreader.org/ FBReader]: e-book reader.  Great functionality, but the UI is a bit clunky (file dialogs are not Hildonized, preferences dialogs are overwhelmingly complicated, there's no smooth touch scrolling).
-* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec Fennec]: Mozilla Firefox-based browser made specifically for mobile devices & touch screens. Currently (23 oct 2008) in Alpha phase.
-==== Alpha/Beta quality ====
-*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/osm2go/ osm2go]: This is a tool to '''create''' maps. It makes use of the hirez (touch) screen, a permanent internet connection for up- and download and the GPS of course. No such tool seems to exist for any other mobile plattform.
-: Very interesting. Any way to make this a plugin of the very popular Maemo Mapper? Imagine that users would just use the maps, having the ability to go for an "editing mode" by pressing a key.--[[User:qgil|qgil]] 08:14, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
-*[http://garage.maemo.org/projects/maemo-barcode/ maemo-barcode]: Alpha quality, could be a very cool application with some integration and interface development.
-*[http://garage.maemo.org/projects/liqbase liqbase]: Beta (now in extras) playground for sketching with kinetic graffiti with fullscreen tearfree refresh.  finger friendly and FAST.  shows off your tablet in the best light.
-* Bring [http://garage.maemo.org/projects/gazpacho-maemo/ Gazpacho] back to life
-: Developer tools are out of scope in this call.--[[User:qgil|qgil]] 06:35, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
-*[http://garage.maemo.org/projects/bluemaemo/ BlueMaemo]: Alpha quality, have a lot of room for improvement and new features, depending in the maemo 5 hw.
-*[http://garage.maemo.org/projects/tear/ Tear]: Alpha quality, a simple webkit-based browser which aims for better tablet-oriented experience (and maybe cross-engine). After the alpha Fremantle SDK will probably employ a Clutter-based UI.
 == The Best of Maemo Applications ==
-'''Please do not list new proposals directly here'''. These are projects that accomplish most of the criteria above. They be available in the Maemo 4.1 extras repository and offer a Download page in maemo.org. Add you comment if you think any of these candidates is not fit enough for the top selection, or belong to a different category. Apps marked with [[Image:Star.png]] appear now [http://maemo.org/downloads/featured/OS2008/25/ in the list of featured Maemo applications].
+'''Please do not list new proposals directly here'''. Use the [[Talk:Task:Remarkable_community_projects|discussion]] page instead. These are projects that accomplish most of the criteria above. They be available in the Maemo 4.1 extras repository and offer a Download page in maemo.org. Add you comment if you think any of these candidates is not fit enough for the top selection, or belong to a different category. Apps marked with [[Image:Star.png]] appear now [http://maemo.org/downloads/featured/OS2008/25/ in the list of featured Maemo applications].
 ===Born for Maemo===

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