Mozilla Maemo Danish Weekend/Developer Challenge

The developer challenge is about who can create or port the most awesome add-on for Fennec. There are a couple of useful links here and here.

Contents

Criteria

Awesomeness!

Prize

Paid trip and lodging to the Maemo Summit in Amsterdam, October 9-11, 2009 (max 3 persons)

Deadline/Submission

Add a link to your submission below before 3 PM Sunday afternoon and we will have a session at 4 PM announcing the winner and demoing a few of the add-ons.

Fennec Desktop Builds

Ideas

Below is a list of ideas for add-ons. Feel free to add more.

  • Geolocation
    • What's Near Me
    • ATM Finder
  • Tab Thumbnail Badging
    • Micro Summaries
  • Ad Block+
  • Twitter Clients
  • Themes
  • Plugins
  • Widget (iGoogle, Yahoo, W3C)
  • Flickr (photo) Viewer (flickable full-screen photo viewer)
  • Search Plugins
  • Social Networking
  • Notifications
  • D-Bus Fennec Alerts


Jury

  • Brian King, mozdev.org
  • Quim Gil, Maemo SW
  • Kees Jongenburger, maemo.org Council
  • Madhava Enros, Mozilla
  • Stuart Parmenter, Mozilla
  • Christian Sejersen, Mozilla


Submissions

Please provide a link to the add-on, your names (up to 3 people), contact information and a two sentence summary of you add-on.

Fabrice Desré (fabrice.desre@gmail.com)

  • GeoGuide (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12118) : an add-on that shows different kinds of information near you, using the geolocation API. It allows to popuplate a map with only what you're interested in (pictures, events, wikipedia articles...)
  • GraffiTwit (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12191) : aa Twitter client with a unique feature : instead of writing text messages, you can now use a Canvas based drawing board to send sketches, and of course view them when other twitterers send you sketches.

David Greaves (lbt)

  • Qt/Shopper : Add touchable scroll to the Qt framework - with fremantle bounce; Means that any Qt developer gets fingerscroll for free ... demonstration through re-orientable shopping list application (installed on #7)... lbt

Thomas Perl (thp)

  • gPodder Podcast Client for Fremantle (here), Diablo (here), Chinook (here) and Mer (screenshots): An application for downloading audio and video podcasts to Maemo devices. Uses the new Hildon AppMenu and PannableArea on Fremantle.

liqbase packages for fremantle

Gary Birkett Kees J Jeremiah

liqbase package works on new device

example run command ./vworld -showwidget liqrecentusers


Multi User Map (Social Geolocation)

  • Adam Harwell - aharwell at trinity dot edu
  • John Bloom - johnxx at gmail dot com
  • Users run an updater statusbar-plugin or background daemon that uploads their GPS location, name, a custom image, and their current "status" (custom message) to a central database at some interval, and can run a map application (or possibly a maemo-mapper modification/plugin) that pulls all of the entries from the database and plots them as "moving POIs" to facilitate groups (especially at events like this hackfest or a summit) meeting and exploring. With the constant connectivity of Maemo5, GPS and a decent camera, users would also be able to add custom POIs on the fly and they would be distributed to everyone, for instance taking a picture of a restaurant, set the name to "Bob's Cafe", the comment to "meetup at 6pm!", and everyone has the info! No more wandering around confusedly looking for a bar. :)
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