Language/s: C
IDE: esbox
Project: webtexter
Progress: Basics working. Needs some polishing and cleaning up but should be usable by end users.
Distribution: Free
Purpose/goal of project: Use free webtexts provided by your operator. Supports Irish mobile operators and some Voip providers (e.g. betamax)

Language/s: C++
IDE: Ubuntu, EsBox

Project: mMilk
Progress: just started
Distribution: free
Purpose/goal of project:
Application to access rememberthemilk tasks (maybe later sync them with N900 tasks, integrate them into calendar... lots of ideas here)

Project: pingfm
Progress: planned
Distribution: idea
Purpose/goal of project
Application interface for ping.fm service (updating your status) Maybe adding a desktop widget for more convenience...

Project: mOTK
Purpose/goal of project: Have a way to play TCGs (Magic The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh, VS system, etc) across many platform, as well as teach myself a few things.
Progress: 1%. Starting to thing this a job for more than one person. Or at least a person that has more free time, lol.
License: LGPL
Distribution: Not yet
Language/s: Python
IDE: Vim (more details here)

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Project: Aptly
Purpose/goal of project: Simply command-line based package management by aggregating the most useful functions of apt-get, apt-cache, and dpkg. Also, this was a learning experience for me.
Progress: 50% (I've rewritten it)
Distribution: Fremantle, Diablo, and any other Debian-derivative
License: GPLv3
Language/s: Python
IDE: Vim (more details here)

Project: MaeGym
Purpose/goal of project: fitness and nutrition app for the N900
Progress: 48% (every point release is 10%)
Distribution: Fremantle
License: GPLv3
Language/s: PyQt
IDE: Vim (more details here)

Hi ,

Can anybody tell me how to open a existing projects(examples given) in esbox?

I am starting development in maemo platfrom with the following details:

Language/s:c
IDE:esbox
Project:Game
Progress:beginning
License:
Distribution:
Purpose/goal of project: learning

Regards
Priya
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Language/s: Python (eventually C if/when I can get SDK+ running)
IDE: vi / py2deb / svn on the device
Project: mwTube
Progress: 60% (usable, but not feature-complete)
License: BSD
Distribution: currently in extras-devel
Purpose/goal of project: Small & fast London Tube (underground) status display.
Using as a learning project for the N900.

Language/s: C
IDE: gedit
Project: marhythm
Progress: 75% (First public version)
License: BSD
Distribution: extras-devel (soon)
Purpose/goal of project: application that displays biorhythm info about your contacts (and yourself). It can help you to track the mood of your contacts. (According to the biorhythm theory)

This is all very interesting to me -- particularly the diversity of IDEs. Clearly people have their pet favorites.

Language/s: Python
IDE: jEdit
Project: comix
Progress: In Extras-Devel, should be feature complete.
License: GPLv2
Distribution: free
Purpose/goal of project: To learn about developing in Maemo again, and to read comics... although there's already the excellent CBRpager for that.

Language/s: C++ (sdl)
IDE: jEdit
Project: freeciv
Progress: In Extras-Devel, work in progress on improving integration with hildon.
License: GPL
Distribution: free
Purpose/goal of project: Just to play my favorite game on my tablet.

(This is a university group research project, but I feel it's still relevant here)
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Language/s: C/C++ (with Qt). Looking at Matlab (if anyone has experience with using Matlab/Simulink on embedded Linux, systems, please PM me - there are a few questions I'd like to ask you)
IDE: KDevelop4/Vim (Linux), XCode (Mac), and probably VS on Windows, but I haven't asked the Windows guys
Project: Positioning technology (hardware && software)
Progress: Prototype essentially done, but partially blocked by a third-party bug.
License: Not sure yet, and not in my control. Backend code at least will be proprietary, as far as I can gather.
Distribution: Internal research for now, but exploring options for the future.
Purpose/goal of project: Develop a cross-platform, infrastructure-free solution for use in mobile context awareness, routing, etc.
My personal reason for joining was to give me an interesting project to work on; I need/want to learn Qt and the Maemo Platform, and I learn much faster diving in headfirst than studying from a book. Oh, and the loan of an N900 was a small part of it. Thanks Nokia!
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Without a doubt one of the best threads here. Thanks to code177 for starting it and to all contributors doing such a great job of helping us noobs enjoy the N900's obvious potential. I have no idea what most of you folks are talking about here but the 'purpose/goals' section has me checking apps manager regularly in anticipation. Big cheers!