Mer/Proposals/SmartQ Developer Programme

We will be getting 10 developer rebates of 33$ from SmartDevices and this will be distributed in the following manner:

Stskeeps will be choosing the best 10 proposals, which will be evaluated on the merit of the proposal, previous contributions to the project, and the perceived skill of the person proposing it.

If you receive one of the rebates you will be able to, through a Singapore distributor to receive a SmartQ5 by paying 99 USD - shipping may not be included (not sure yet). You must pay taxes, VAT and customs cost yourself if your country imposes this on the device.

Retail price is 132 USD and you will be getting a 33 USD rebate. It is still unsure if you can get a 33 USD rebate for Q7 too but list this in your proposal.

Proposals will be evaluated when the procedure has been worked out. If you'd like to make a proposal in exchange for eventual rebate, be sure to have signed up for the Mer project as well (being on Mer/People). The rebates are for Mer team members only.

The proposals will be evaluated in the following manner:

Proposal will be evaluated in terms of the following items on a scale of 1 not relevant, to 10 most revelant.

  • Weight 5: Improving hardware support (kernel, bootloaders, X, HAL, drivers, control panels, home applets, status bar applets)
  • Weight 4: Using specific hardware features of the device (TV out, USB host/otg, SoC features) or form factor.
  • Weight 3: Improving the Mer platform on all devices.
  • Weight 2: Perceived skill of contributor
  • Weight 1: Past contributions to the Mer project.

Template Proposal

Name:

Nickname:

Location:

Needed device (Q5 or Q7):

Previous contributions to Mer if any:

Examples to evaluate your skill on:

Proposal:

Evaluation from Stskeeps will go here:

Insert your proposals here

Name: Matan Ziv-Av

Nickname: matan

Location: Ein-Yahav, ISRAEL.

Needed device (Q5 or Q7): Q5 and Q7

Previous contributions to Mer if any:

  • Some hacking on Q5 kernel.
  • Finding a way to update kernel from Mer.
  • Getting him-arabic (another HIM keyboard) to work.

Examples to evaluate your skill on:

Proposal: I intend to work on hardware support on Q5/Q7:

  • Getting them better supported in Mer - they have quite a few buttons than other Mer devices (ITs, Loox 720).
  • Getting the s3c_pp and s3c_mfc to allocate memory at run time, thus allowing full use of RAM and video acceleration.
  • Getting one kernel to work on both devices.
  • 2D accelerated driver for Xorg.
  • 3D accelerated driver (long term goal).

Name: Ed Page

Nickname: epage

Location: Austin, Tx, USA

Needed device (Q5 or Q7): Q5

Previous contributions to Mer if any: None

Examples to evaluate your skill on:

Proposal:

  • Learn Mer through working on Control Panels
  • Build upon familiarity with moving on to Thumb Keyboards

Name: Andrew Zhilin

Nickname: wazd

Location: Moscow, Russia

Needed device (Q5 or Q7): Q5

Previous contributions to Mer if any:

  • UI developing

Examples to evaluate your skill on:

Proposal:

  • UI developing and testing user experience on specific hardware


Name: David Greaves

Nickname: lbt

Location: UK

Needed device (Q5 or Q7): Q7

Previous contributions to Mer if any: OBS, Qt

Examples to evaluate your skill on: OBS, Qt, Shopper

Proposal: Pictureframe A community picture-frame type application. Share pictures via wifi/internet so a 'group' of frames can show the same picture. Think of extended family where your mum sees the same pic as you when you change it.

In the process we'll need some super-simple UI stuff; easy install etc.

Name: tommy

Nickname: toggles

Location: USA

Needed device (Q5 or Q7): Q5/Q7

Previous contributions to Mer if any: None, playing with bme

Examples to evaluate your skill on:

Proposal: Will look at battery info for hal on device.



Evaluation from Stskeeps will go here:

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