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Look who is here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btxaTIBTWIs

Coool.. it's Chippy!

BTW who's this Cosimo Kroll guy? It says he's a developer... should we be expecting an application from him?

Just to fill people in - Chippy (https://twitter.com/chippy) is a mobile computing enthusiastic/writer/blogger and owner editor of www.carrypad.com. The guy at the end was Ash, a MeeGo evangelist, from www.MeeGoExperts.com (https://twitter.com/MeeGoExperts). The mystery developer dude looks a lot like this guy https://twitter.com/zehjotkah If you have twitter you should add them all up, great sources of Maemo/MeeGo/general mobile news and views

Ive no idea who the other guy being interviewed (angry birds t-shirt) was

sheesh^^
those guys at Intel USA never get it right..
I even gave them my card with "MeeGo Evangelist" printed on...
You can find Julien (the Angry Bird guy) here http://www.linkedin.com/in/julienfourgeaud and on twitter: http://twitter.com/jfourgeaud

Okay back to some serious stuff..
Donation update:
10 € by hassyy (there is no user called hassyy on tmo or forum.meego.com)
30 € by annonymous (can't even find the nickname based on a real name google search...)

We've also some new submissions at http://competition.meetmeego.org/ worth to check out.
Also please submit your app there if you haven't already.

Updated my Nepali Calendar to version 0.1.0 which is also in devel now. I think I am done with it. I have few ideas that I might implement (or if someone else wants to implement it, its fine).

1. Green Earth: App that will notify frequently (say once in 5 minute) if the device is connected to charger and battery is fulled. Useful if you charge your device at place a bit far or invisible from where you stay (you can't hear those small short charge full tone and those notification light).

2. What's Today or Today Info app: Store some international days (May Day just passed), Upon opening application it will show message box with info about today (if there's some international day today), might later turn into a desktop widget but no association with calendar, you won't like to have those international days in your calendar, would you?

3. PicoCAD: I thought of MicroCAD first, then NanoCAD and now PicoCAD, which would be small application for vector graphics. Although making it function rich would be harder, getting basic things done shouldn't be harder. I actually made very small version with only draw line by inputting coordinate, but paused it afterward.

4. Port engauge which is graph digitizer software written in earlier version of Qt, import image and get coordinates of lines in the graph. I tried a bit to port it and it almost got compiled (only few errors were left) but I messed it and then pause again.

5. Some engineering calculation software, maybe culvert design, pavement width calculation, area calculator or whatever.

Now my question is which app would you guys like to see? If you guys are interested in any of those app, then do mention. If there are noticeable number of guys who are interested in any of those, then I might give it a try else I am too busy these days.

Note that I am just a beginner and hence don't expect too much.

I don't know how much "end users" are following this thread. So perhaps you could ask here your question again to get more feedback.

Question (or at least clarification)...

what constitutes a "Beginner" Entry... I have currently said Yes for the Inner-Spin entry, seeing I have not previously developed anything for the n900 (or indeed any mobile/handheld device), or indeed any game before beyond the odd hobby pc game that never saw the light of day.

However I am certainly not a beginner in terms of being a software developer.. with far too many years of experience to mention, so feel this might be a misrepresentation?

The "Beginner" entry is for those who are developing something for the first time for maemo/meego (iirc).
So you should be fine.

thanks, thought it won't be good idea to create a separate thread, thanks for pointing to right direction.

@Tpd:

Thank you, I was going to ask exactly the same question.

Bumpity-bump to draw attention to http://developer.meego.com/, a one-stop shop for developers who are keen to learn more about developing for MeeGo devices. You can download the MeeGo SDK from there, get information on targeting and setting up devices, and there's some tutorials to get beginner's started on their first applications.

The "Getting started" section (http://developer.meego.com/guides/getting-started) might be of particular interest, and includes guides such as:

• MeeGo application development overview
  
• Getting started with the MeeGo v1.2 SDK for Linux
  
• Getting started with the MeeGo v1.2 SDK for Windows
  
• Create your first application: Hello World

For those without MeeGo devices but would like to try it out on their N900:

• Setting up the Nokia N900 for MeeGo Development

I've only found out about the site tonight thanks to twitter so I'm still looking around it, but it seems to have a lot of good info on there, and worth checking it out even for general Maemo and Qt development. Because Qt is common ground, a lot of the information is relevent to us here too

On the last competition wiki we had a section for information on getting started with development, I might add the above links into the new wiki if that's alright. ((Edit: Added section 9, Application Developer Resources to wiki)). Also during the last competition I made a few different tutorials showing newbs (other newbs, like myself at that time) how to create N900 applications with various technologies (there were tutorials for Qt, PyQt, Pygame). I think it would be real benefit to the community if one of us with a MeeGo device could create some tutorials that we could follow along with and ask questions on. I have a 2 year old Compaq notebook somewhere I'm going to find and see if I can install MeeGo on it, if that works out I'll create a couple of guides and link them here. Would anyone with a properly configured MeeGo device be interested in creating a tutorial or two? Since the last comp we've had Qt Quick and QML, so maybe something on that. And also something for the Maemo developer getting started with MeeGo, for example can we run the Maemo and MeeGo tool chain together? Any issues with that? How best to setup and target applications for both from the same development machine? etc etc.. In the meantime the guides etc on the developer.meego.com site will be there, please add some links to other guides/tutorials you've found that you think have been particularly useful too

Edit: Ive put a shout out on twitter for Maemo devs now working on MeeGo apps to share some experiences. Does anyone know any of the devs on here who are now making MeeGo apps? I can't think of anyone off the top of my head.. which is a little worrying.. but there must be some It'd be cool if we can find a member that would be willing to assist with any questions our competition participants might have

((2 names so far, b0unc3 and tlaukkanen))

Edit 2: Sorry for the long MeeGo centric post, ofcourse we're welcome to forget all about MeeGo and stick to our Maemo guns when developing our competition entries - both Maemo and MeeGo apps are equally valid. Hope I havent confused anyone! Just thinking of those who'd be interested in the switch or testing their app on both platforms

Edit 3: looks like we got our first entry for the Fun & Strange section, and it's from friend of the contest Helex! N900 X-Ray!