Mer/Hackfest Copenhagen 09
Focus of the Copenhagen Hackfest (30-31 May 2009): Bring Mer closer to 1.0
Mer 1.0 is the version of Mer where it is first usable for day-to-day usage. This means, I should be able to use it for a day for my day-to-day tasks like I would have been able to using Maemo, on my mobile device. Fremantle is in beta at this point and we should be able to provide Fremantle APIs and a Maemo 4 replacement for users when Fremantle is out. The hope is to be able to use the synergy of bringing so many Maemo and Mer related personalities together, to be able to move ahead on things that would take longer if having to be done online.
Sub-goals, which serve as guidelines for activities:
- Control panels to be able to control behavior of your tablet.
- Developer tools - builders, cross compilation environments and IDEs
- Artwork and UI design: Icons, themes, backgrounds, animations, shining up interfaces through code, etc.
- Hardware interfacing and event-reaction daemons (implementing behavior similar to or better than Maemo4)
- Integration with maemo.org both on a organizational (relation to council, community) and technical level (package and image builders, repositories)
- Alignment with Maemo5 APIs and integration of Nokia-closed software in restricted images.
- Chasing down showstopper bugs which would hinder user adoption of Mer 1.0.
- Discussions on Mer after 1.0 and presentations on Mer to potential users and developers.
- Getting the Mer project developers and contributors together for the first time.
Activity intentions
Template (short title)
Nickname:
Real name:
Affiliation and country of residence:
Areas of interest and expertises:
What you hope to accomplish on the 30th and 31th May 2009
(Make a 5 line summary of what you're interested in doing)
Who do you hope to cooperate with to get this accomplished
(If there are other people at the developer meeting it would be useful to cooperate with to get this accomplished)
Presentations
(Do you plan on making any presentations or demos at the developer meeting?)
Reference from Stskeeps
(Reference from Stskeeps if need be based on past contributions, for sponsorship requests of travel and accomodation)