Task:2010 Agenda

Help defining the maemo.org 2010 Agenda. This is taken to mean the vision the community has for the state of maemo in 2010.

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  • Hardware requests are entirely out-of-scope and will be removed by community members trying to keep this page focused and on-topic.
  • Software requests which would be trivial for a third party to provide—or are already on the roadmap—are out-of-scope and will be removed by community members trying to keep this page focused and on-topic.


Contents

maemo development process

Openness, openness, openness

  • Core libraries developed in the open by Nokia employees, and maemo.org community contributors.
  • Non-Nokia specification writing and approval, worked on by Nokia employees and maemo.org community contributors; discussed on public mailing lists.
  • The ability to build a complete, flashable image by maemo.org community for beta testing of open components in development. (May be less necessary in an SSU-based world: TBC)
  • The ability to strip a maemo-based OS down to its base and build it up again differently (for example, KDE and no Hildon).
    • By 2010, installing completely different UIs should be achievable through the Application Manager.

Maemo developer resources

  • Better localization guidelines for new and existing Developers. 
    --keep focused on the core of the project 
    --stay unified and work out the details later
    --focus every module in a step by step instead of a free for all 
    --delegate. Newbs need the experience
  • Development Framework. ???
  • Documentation System. (Help system???) 
    --getting started is way to difficult and will detour many great minds 
    --outsource to the blogger types in the group 
         --voice record "dictate to the typers"
         --video and slide w/audio help for many
    --cut out the opinions where are the real facts (make an easy to find location)
  • Better GPS resources. (GeoClue???)
  • Development Tools and Utilities for Linux, OS X and Windows. 
    --GUI development package (reduce learning curve)
    --Better feedback on testing of packages 
    --make simple system for ideas to be tried
  • Better modern native languages support - like Vala and D. && how to build a hello world app in C++/Vala in 10 minute (no more!) 
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Ship high level building blocks

  • Think of media server, VoIP, contact lists, camera, GPS localization. Currently developers only have the low level API's, while mostly they just want a widget that displays the mentioned data and listen to user interaction signal or device signals. This also makes these functionalities look the same in all applications using them

End-user software wishlist

Software requests are really out-of-scope and not relevant to this brainstorming session (or able to be provided by third party developers without maemo.org involvement); however, they are recorded here so they do not get duplicated:

  • A PIM system that can be tied into by developers, to provide PC synchronization etc.
    • A equivalent to telepathy for calendar and contact list: A well integrated framework.
  • Telepathy:
    • Better video call support
  • Global sync-software
  • Office suite. (???) see discussion
  • Unionfs support built into the kernel (So users don't have to flash initfs and boot from SD, or make symlinks gone wild, just to install a few extra apps)
  • a2dp
  • Better support for right-to-left languages, such as Arabic, and Hebrew.
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