Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

First edition of Maemo Weekly News

Hello, and welcome to the first edition of Maemo Weekly News. This, as the name suggests, is a new weekly digest of news and announcements from in and around the Maemo community. Our team of intrepid contributors are deeply embedded within all facets of the Maemo and 770, N800, N810 and N900 community; whether that's on IRC, talk.maemo.org, maemo.org Downloads, blogs, Twitter or the mailing lists. They read and process all the info, so you don't have to!

As this is the first issue, things are still bedding in - features such as the top downloads for the week, the newest downloads and the top bugs are still under development. Also, we're still looking for contributors; so if you feel like you stumble across Maemo items which are well hidden, and of interest to others, please hit "Read more" link to get involved. The key thing to all of us is that this adds lots of value, without taking up lots of our time. If laziness, hubris and a desire to help others are qualities you recognise in yourself, get in touch!


Firefox mobile released for Maemo 5

The news has been everywhere, but Mozilla's mobile Firefox (Fennec) has now been released for the N900. Using basically the same engine as the built-in browser, Firefox Mobile brings an interesting new take on the mobile browser user interface; can synchronise with your desktop Firefox and embraces the concepts of add-ons in the same way it's big brother does: It will be interesting to see whether it gets the user takeup that Firefox has had, given it's competing against its own cousin and every review lists the out-of-the-box browser as the best feature of the N900.



In this edition...

1. Front Page
   • First edition of Maemo Weekly News
   • Firefox mobile released for Maemo 5
2. Applications
   • The One Ring - Google Voice properly integrated into Maemo 5
   • Ovi store still selling DRM content the N900 can't play
   • Mac OS X iSync plugin for N900
   • ...
3. Development
   • Proposal for micro-donations for authors via maemo.org
   • maemo.org Extras definition of 'free' brought into focus
   • Network connected apps should better support proxy
   • ...
4. Community
   • UK development community used in Nokia marketing video
   • Brainstorm - how do we make it useful, and manage it?
   • Ask the Community Council
   • ...
5. Devices
   • No clarification on Maemo 6 for N900
   • N900 call volume fading out - hardware or software fault?
   • PUSHN900 pre-London meet roundup
6. Maemo in the Wild
   • N900 viral marketing in top 5 for 2009
   • Prominent N900 adverts in London Underground
7. Announcements
   • SyncEvolution 0.9.2 announcement
   • Download Assistant preview
   • Catorise sorts your #N900 apps: now in Extras
   • ...

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

one minute left :)

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

More like two hours my dear Quim. You're up way too early either way.

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

Ah, I see now that the launch is at 6am UTC. The website counter was telling me that it was 1 minute left for 6am in my local time. Anyway, just launch details.

Looking forward to the real flesh. :) Time for me to reach the office.

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

Good morning, look forward reading this very first Maemo "enews letter"

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

The first edition is now live at http://www.mwkn.net/.

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

Well, that was a useless countdown then! Sorry for the inconvenience :-(

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

Excellent work Jaffa and Reggie, thanks a lot to all the contributors to find the links and provide us with a good insight of what's happening.

Everyone, please note that this issue was created nearly manually. The feeds and links were provided through twitter, and then Jaffa and Reggie have been fleshing out the contents of the newsletter through editing a simple text file! So big round of applause to them!

We're still working hard to try and get an automated system running, so that editors, sub-editors and contributors have a much easier time putting an issue together. Stay tuned for future updates!

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

That's really excellent! Very, very impressive.

Huge round of applause to the people involved, and thankyou. A good step for Maemo.org. :)

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

Excellent job! A good way to catch up with things you may have missed.

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

MWKN is a great addition to follow what's happening and saves on time spent following threads in the talk forum. I really like the choice of headings, too!

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

Why this isn't also in news section?

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

I'm happy for a mod to move it to the best place.

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

Great, bookmarked it. I get a huge space at the top part of reading pane in IE6 for the mwkn website. Is it an browser issue?

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

Yes. Although I did a quick check in IE, it may have been IE7. You should upgrade from IE6 as it's a legacy browser with little to no support of web standards.

Please upgrade to Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer 7 or Internet Explorer 8; if possible.

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

I guess that means I can't read it at work. Cornwall NHS sticks doggedly to IE6. :(

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

Shoot of a request to IT. Last time I was there Firefox was only a phone call away.

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

Hmm. They should hurry up and upgrade.
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com...lications.html

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

You can presumably still read it, it just won't look great. However, some useful links to pass on to your IT department:

• Internet Explorer is dangerous
• Internet Explorer support ends here
• Google phases out information for IE6
• French and German governments recommend switching from IE6

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

I hot desk all over the place, sadly, so I use at least half a dozen different computers. And these days we even have patients having computer access.. you can guess how chuffed they are that their websites won't display properly (not to mention that they're blocked from all social networking sites!)


I'm not ITs favourite person anyway: by the time I go to them I have a problem I couldn't solve, which usually means they can't either. :p

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

Ah.... So cool!!!

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

ALot of things i missed in one place. good work guys.

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

Excellent work! This was definitely missing.
Keep up the good work!

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

It's a great start, though I have to say that having "...." under each heading gives the distinct impression that only those main things listed are in the news and that there are no other items, especially since the "..." isn't linked anywhere.

Can't wait to see the next one.

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

Great work. Thank you for gathering all the interesting things in one place.

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

great work guys

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02...uk_government/ should change this for the better in the NHS!

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

I thought an ellipsis was fine; would it be better to have something like "[i]+ 4 more"?

Another suggestion which was received was making the article titles links either instead of, or as well as, the "Read more" links. Thoughts?

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

It was "as well as". ;)

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

Awesome work guys :)

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

Excellent work, very interesting and a handy way of catching up on things I missed through the week.
Thanks to all involved. :D

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

just great

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

You might find this useful :-)

DoH tells NHS to dump IE6
"Get with the times, grandad"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/01/doh_ie6/

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

Yeah the "+ 4 more" would be perfect.

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

There's still lots of opportunity for people to get involved. If you can spare some time to post interesting links to Twitter as your browse around the Maemo world, you can become a contributor. If you'd like to flesh out the links with a bit of info (as you can see in this issue), a sub-editorship could be right up your alley.

More information on getting involved can be seen here:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_Weekly_News#Implementation

If you'd like to be a contributor, you can start directing your tweets at the @mwkn account. They won't be picked up automatically, but if you post 3 good links over the course of a week, I'll make mwkn follow you, and you'll become an official contributor.

If anybody has any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

Really great to have MWKN. I know it is brand new but FWIW:

microB
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_587Wk-3x3vI/S2...microB.png.jpg

FireFox
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_587Wk-3x3vI/S2...irefox.png.jpg

Midori
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_587Wk-3x3vI/S2...Midori.png.jpg

I didn't notice if this was mentioned previously. Is anyone else seeing this format issue in microB?

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

Only other thing I would say needs fixing is that the site needs an RSS feed. :)

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

Worked for me last time I checked.

Other than http://www.mwkn.net/issues.rss ? ;-)

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

Strange, wasn't showing up in my browser... but it works. Thanks. :)

Re: Maemo Weekly News: 1st Feburary 2010
 

Agree! Awesome idea, excellent job :-)
Keep on rollin Maemo-Community!!!