Originally Posted by ivgalvez

kojacker, zehjotkah

This Friday, at 15:00 UTC, we will have a meeting with X-Fade. Please send the details for CC voting to council@maemo.org so we can comment it with him and try to assist if you want to comment about it.

Originally Posted by Wikiwide

Quick...
Help! Screen (touchscreen, LCD screen, LED, light sensor, front camera - everything) is disconnected from the main body. The most I can do, is take photographs (or videos) blindly and restart the whole device (speakers are fine, and incoming calls are heard, but for some reason are regarded as missed calls very quickly, no chance to catch them). How can the hardware be repaired? Where can a manual be found? Thanks in advance.
It's the same issue as
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=74007

Originally Posted by kojacker

Thanks for keeping us up to date ivgalvez, can you advise us what kind of details do you need? The competition entry does not close until Sunday midnight so we would not have a full list of entries by Friday.

If I understand correctly from the meeting logs, X-Fade may be away on vacation for a week from the 10th. I think it would still be preferential even if we had to wait until his return to supply the full list of entrants. Although the vote would be delayed by a week, I think it would still be worth it to use the council voting mechanism. In reality, the alternatives would also introduce a delay anyway - be it for Reggie to verify anonymous votes or for the counts to be otherwise handled manually. And the extra time can still be used for verifying entries, testing from users, etc. Is there anything we could supply so X-Fade could get things started then there'd be less to do on his return?

Originally Posted by ivgalvez

Well I understand the the entry to X-Fade would be the list of applications. Whatever it was needed for latest competition.

Originally Posted by MartinK

@Thesis & FOSS
From my experience (Bachelors thesis & now Masters thesis on Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University) I was actively encouraged to do everything FOSS. Actually, it was required for the bachelors thesis ("compare current FOSS navigation systems, choose one and improve it").

Furthermore, all theses are available online in full, not only the written part [example] but also any source materials [example] (source code, documentation, images).

Originally Posted by kojacker

For folks (especially beginners) who are uploading their Maemo5 applications to the mameo.org repositories today, titilambert has reported a possible problem with the builder at this time http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=86572. It won't affect any builds you are making locally, only if you are using the maemo.org repository auto-builder. So if that's in your plans please keep an eye on the thread so you're not caught out

It shouldn't take long to fix so hopefully it won't affect anyone taking part in the competition before Sunday's deadline. However, it's not necessary for your application to be on the maemo.org repository to take part in the competition (though it's nice - you get virtual brownie points*) - so even if it's still broken by then you can host your deb somewhere and upload it to the repository later.

* virtual brownie points not redeemable for prizes

Originally Posted by kojacker

Thanks ivgalvez, as far as i am aware this is all we need to supply (unless anyone who looked after it last year can think of something else?). Unfortunately the final list won't be available until after X-Fade leaves for his vacation but it will be waiting for him on his return, could you find out if that will be acceptable to him in Friday's meeting and if we're still good to proceed?

Originally Posted by kojacker

An update on registered participants and submitted applications:

Desktop, System, and Utilities: 24 (7)
Games, Graphics, and Multimedia: 27 (5)
Location & Navigation: 7 (0)
Network & Communications: 19 (4)
Other: 13 (3)
Updates on existing apps: 15 (6)

105 registered applications with categories on the wiki page, but only 25 submitted entries so far. At the moment we wouldnt need a vote - hopefully we get a last week flood of submissions

I'm worried there are a lot of folks out there who don't know they are able to submit their entries now, or who have forgotten/aren't aware of the deadline. If you know someone (any of these guys) in that situation please nudge them towards the submission form. Also, if you've seen any applications recently announced that you like please remind them to take part. Hopefully we can boost these numbers up a bit

Edit: Added same update to the maemo.org 'Applications' thread (http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...8&postcount=17) and the MeeGo forum (http://forum.meego.com/showpost.php?p=41629&postcount=2). Thing of spamming the Community mailing list.

Edit2: ps I'm gonna start spamming people's inboxes until they submit applications (no shame )

Originally Posted by Wikiwide

Funny... I have just entered the virtransim. Where can the list of entries be found? Will it be shown only later, when the voting starts?

Since it is hardly possible to repair the flex cable of N900 within one week, don't expect me to be adding any more entries, even simply porting applications from Debian.

Any information on keyboard shortcuts for screen-less navigation is welcome.