Talk:Maemo Summit 2008

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Program

Help with the program

I'm happy having the role of benevolent dictator for the schedule on Friday 19: I organize the sessions submitted and if someone finds a bug or an improvement just complain and we'll find a solution. However, I really don't want to organize the sessions on Saturday 20, which is purely a maemo.org community day. Can you please find either another dictator or a system to get that sorted out yourselves? I'm asking for a coordinator at Maemo_Summit_2008/Organization#Program. Thanks!--qgil 09:45, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Also, could someone draw nice tables for the schedules? I want to do this since.. but there is always something else taking the time. In principle each day needs a table with 3 columns (3 tracks), being some sessions single cells spanning through the whole row (no tracks, just one session at a time, or breaks). Appreciated. --qgil 09:45, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Saturday Coordinator ~ Eric Warnke Feel free to contact me directly or put your ideas here. I will distill them and be the buffer for Nokia that day. brontide 14:32, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Lightning sessions

These are really brief sessions of 5 minutes approx i.e. demos. You can propose your own session listing it directly in the schedule once you have confirmed your trip to Berlin. If we get many proposals we will have a second round of lightning sessions on Saturday. Lightning sessions are cool!

We are open to submissions in the form of decent quality videos, to be shown to the audience and uploaded in maemo.org as part of the video materials of the Summit.

  • I'd like to present Intranet search (extended desktop search) from maemo with libferris (http://www.libferris.com/). This would be a quick overview of what is available now and where I'm heading with it. -- Monkeyiq July 19.
Now you can list it yourself.--qgil 18:52, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
Now you can list it yourself.--qgil 18:52, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
  • I don't know if 5 minutes would be enough, but I would like to talk about Rich UIs and the importance of being different and showing the potential of the platform to "Transform" itself in different products, focused in one main use: like our projects: Canola (media player) Carman (onboard computer + car media) and others like remote controls, etc. The real goal is to show why is really needed that some applications "break" the rules and extend the experience showing the power of openness. (this can be a full talk if of interest)
20 seconds are enough for a great ad, 3:30 are enough for a great videoclip and 5:00 are enough for a great lightning session.  :) Find a title and... a name for yourself (are you Marcelo?) Then on Saturday you could organize a full session.--qgil 08:30, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
Now you can list it yourself.--qgil 18:52, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
  • I would like to present Illumination, an alternative GUI library, which is used by my applications. 5 minutes is a start (I'm a fast speaker ;-)), but around 20 minutes would be better. Take 5 minutes on friday or can I get 20 minutes on saturday? I could also speak a little bit of my problems porting a non-Gtk based GUI library (togetehr with some hints towards existing APIs). What about that (5 minutes would be not enough again I fear)?--framstag 15:29, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
Now you can list it yourself.--qgil 18:52, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
  • I ( Gustavo Barbieri) got delayed due some personal problems and will just arrive in Berlin/Tegel by 2:10pm of 19th, after the lightning talks are over, may I remove my entry or someone else (qgil?) has to do it?
Go ahead and remove it yourself. Can you move your session to anywhere else in the schedule? --timsamoff 13:49, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
Qgil maybe another 30 minute lightning session right before we end for the day? ( assuming we have the interest from others to present ) brontide 13:54, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
timsamoff: brontide just did that for me. As for presenting later, of course I can, let's see if we can get another lightning sessions.

BoFs and workshops

List below your proposals for activities. They are thought to be highly participative i.e. discussion about an area of the platform, workshops, etc. I have promoted many proposals onto the main page. If you need longer than a half an hour slot then let me know.

  • I want to propose a BoF about the new process for Diablo Extras. (Autobuilder, Promotion, Assistant) --xfade 08:02, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
These look like good topics for the Saturday morning track on packaging and publishing. Please help defining the content of that track.--qgil 21:37, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Have all of these been scheduled yet or do you need more time? brontide 02:15, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
  • I'd love to see some sort of break-out brainstorming session or round table discussing current status / future desires for the Maemo platform as a whole. I think this crowd would offer much wisdom to the official team. --timsamoff 02:44, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
Unsure whether this would fit better on Friday or Saturday...--qgil 18:57, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
What about a single session during the 17:00 slot on Saturday -- a sort of , wrap-up for everyone to come back together and offer opinions? --timsamoff 15:22, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
Sounds good!--qgil 20:03, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
I think we should combine a few of these forward looking talks into something more cogent brontide 02:15, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
  • I would like to make a case for embedded (on-tablet) web apps for easy creation of mobile applications for Maemo. With a little bit of python advocacy, a spotlight on the up-and-coming web2py framework, and an example with a little utilitarian app I made and use on my tablet. This is more than a lightning talk but certainly less than an hour - more like 15-20 mins ? --fpp
Think of time for questions/comments as well -- if a presentation is 20-min, it could extend to 45-min with others' input. --timsamoff 20:18, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
Fred, do you have a reservation? are you coming? brontide 02:15, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
  • Mamona doesn't seem to have gone through this page, but putting X-Fade's talk about the future of the auto-builder, and my talk about mud on at the same time seems counter-intuitive, given they're on the same track. Will mamona's talk need the space of all 3 rooms? Is it a keynote? Might make sense to free up one of the rooms so that X-Fade and I can follow on from each other. --Jaffa 23:01, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
How much time will you need for mud? I've started tracking things out a little into community and programming to see how things line up. I would like to see the important programming topic non-overlapping brontide 02:39, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
Eric, I really like what you are doing. Coolness. --timsamoff 02:55, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
I can probably fill as much time as I'm given. I've only a vague idea of what it'll contain at the moment, so fixing the time period is probably better than me trying to fix the content :-) --Jaffa 08:33, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
I believe that whoever put Mamona in the table simply didn't want to fight with table cells in MediaWiki format. It should be one session in one track imo. Thanks brontide for taking the drive!--qgil 08:24, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
Ah, cool. Ditto the thanks to brontide! --Jaffa 08:33, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
Actually, when I created the tables, I added the track to it it was described in the original schedule (check ut the 10a slot in the original version). In any case, I figured this would be sorted out in due time. ;) --timsamoff 12:51, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
  • gnuite would like to present in a BoF session an idea for software that provides vector-based map data to Maemo Mapper without compromising the existing raster-based design of Maemo Mapper. The presented design will offer a completely modular solution that should require no changes to Maemo Mapper at all. The software will utilize OpenStreetMap's free vector-based map data to provide both street visualization and routing instructions without an internet connection. The presentation will serve as a means for soliciting help from developers interested in the project, since it is likely not a one-man operation.

Mini Exhibit

Anyone want to be in charge on having a mini exhibit -- maybe for the OSiM Maemo booth as well as at the Maemo Summit? Someone can contact, coordinate, and round-up remarkable apps, hacks, and interfaces and help set them up so enthusiasts and guests can see and play with them. The objective here is to show what the Internet Tablet is capable of doing.

Here are some ideas:

I think we should keep it to things we will have access to brontide 23:41, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
Do we have access to a unit? brontide 23:41, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
I know we can, but is there legal issues here if maemo.org does it? brontide 23:41, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm more than willing to demonstrate things at both OSiM and the summit if the hardware can be organised (I have an n800 I can bring a long). -- baloo 19:50, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Signup

If this is to be a reality we have to have at least 24 hours of coverage ( guestimate ) 6hours x2 days x2 people. Signup below and then we will talk about what is realistic in terms of Demo's/Units.


I can help to man 2 dem stations, Connect HD and WorldTV99, side by side for 3 - 6 hrs; and I am also giving sessions on Friday. I need "hardware" support. If I am drafted, who is my contact man? ---User:bunanson

You are a volunteer. If you are demo-ing these projects what hardware support do you need? I will try and make one request to Nokia once we have enough coverage to make the booth possible brontide 02:26, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Travel

Moved to Talk:Maemo_Summit_2008/Travel.

Accommodation

Moved to Maemo Summit 2008/Accommodation.

Recording the Event

See Maemo_Summit_2008/Organization#Marketing_.26_coverage and post your comments / offers for help there.

Advertising

I've submitted the event to the LWN Event Calendar. Is there any other wider advertising we can do? --Jaffa 11:55, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Community

I've got some ideas to allow people attending at Maemo Summit to communicate better. If you have any other idea, please write/discuss here. --Andrea Grandi 10:35, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

  • Prepare a sort of "bagde". A simple card with these informations:
    • Name (nickname)
    • What we do in our life (Developer/Student/Blogger/ecc...)
    • Spoken languages: we could print a flag for each language we speak
  • Prepare a custom Google map with all the hot points in Berlin: c-base, OSiM, all hotels we booked ecc...
  • Create POI's for these place to use on Map software in our tablets
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