How to meet up with maemo members in my area?
 

I live in the Ny/ nj usa area and was wondering are there any local community events. And how would I go about meeting with members in my area?

Re: How to meet up with maemo members in my area?
 

Can you swim? :eek:

I don't think there has been a community event on this side of the Atlantic yet...

I'm all for one in NYC. I know of a venue on W 48th where I have attended or hosted 25 -75 people forum meet-ups in the past. October is a good time of year but is pro'ly to soon and to close to a launch date for the N900. (Actually this week-end would have been fabulous. The Feast of San Genaro in Little Italy is always a pleasant diversion. :) )

Late March and early April are also good times of the year. Maybe we should revisit this thread to start planning after the first of the year. :)

Re: How to meet up with maemo members in my area?
 

I don't think he means major Maemo community events, but ones that are local, much like Linux has local user groups all over the world.

I think the Linux user groups are probably your best place to go at the moment.

Re: How to meet up with maemo members in my area?
 

Also check the various Symbian groups. Many of them will be migrating to Maemo, and may start having Meetups for those users. Not sure about NY/NJ, but check Meetup.com for any Linux or Maemo groups. I'm pretty sure there's one in your area. Maemo may become the most popular Linux OS if this goes commercially well, so Maemo will surely be a part of most Maemo groups soon.

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Yeah, I tried to get a Linux Device User Group going a while back but it turned out to be too much work for one person.

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I originaly hit "Submit Reply" instead of "Preview Post" by mistake... you and christexaport posted while I was in edit mode. :o

Sorry for any confusion kryptoniankid17. As I said a NYC meet in the spring might be nice. :)

Re: How to meet up with maemo members in my area?
 

thanks guys. Hit me with some info and links.

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If you guys ever wanted to meet in Washington D.C. I'd be up for that. (NYC is a bit to far for me to travel. =P)

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Back in the early days of the internet, we used to do this quite often on various tech sites. It was a lot of fun, but typically involved a lot of driving to do it, unless of course you were in a major city like New York or DC. >.<

Re: How to meet up with maemo members in my area?
 

What about a Maemo user map ? :) e.g: http://www.flippinsweetdude.com/maps/index.php

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There's going to be a Mobile Geeks of NY meetup at the Nokia Flagship store on Sept 22nd! Here's the facebook event page. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=150222628054

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^ the s60 events are quite fun, there is usually some give aways like t-shirts etc. On the 22nd there will be quite a few N900's available to play around with apparently.

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I think the map idea is really great! Certainly would give visibility to those with the N900 (I would think a rarefied group initially, to be sure), and the growth of the "movement". I personally look forward to it, as a user and champion of the hardware... as I was locally for the N800 before it.

Future user (per pre-order) in San Luis Obispo, CA

Thor

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With location aware devices, good penetration of OpenStreetMap apps, popular apps with a location angle like OMWeather available for all devices, Ovi SDK with a focus on maps, maemo.org profiles... there should be defitely a way to map this community visually and in real time.

Who has ideas to brainstorm?

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we have all the pieces sure,
a simpler short term method could be to allow talk.maemo.org to list members grouped by their location.

qgil and I both have our approx location plumbed into the settings here and I know lots of others do.
it could be enough to know there are 20 active members from our country who might be coerced into a get together.
can make it finer grained as required and with high res data as people see fit?

make a posh map later on once we know the proof of concept works?

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There was a feature request by bergie in the midgard2maemo project about this: https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/ind...d=106&atid=460

Now replace "developer" for "user", and update it with the latest technologies. Also, would be nice introduce t.m.o in the formula.

It looks how a more long-term project than just a map with people's location, but it could be refined to a more concise plan.

Re: How to meet up with maemo members in my area?
 

I would piggyback off of any linux users groups in your area. Perhaps suggest to them to have maemo as a topic one month and see who else is really interested.

If there are no linux users groups you are probably SOL. Though if there was a MaemoCon in the US like the general linux conferences around the states I would probably go.

Re: How to meet up with maemo members in my area?
 

It is not possible to search through the memberlist for certain location. And NYC is big ofcourse. If you'd have put NYC in topic title chances are higher other members would have read.