Re: Summer'12 Device Program
 

Mailing list for all kind of submissions on all categories. Please. Really, please!

It will save us from another unnecessary unproductive flamewar.

As for discussion about Aapo and who deserves device or not, or, what would be better suited as a prize - that is what I tried to save us from, by "self nominations only" rule :/

/Estel

Re: Summer'12 Device Program
 

Hello,

I would to know how to participate to this "Summer'12 Device Program" ?

I have starting to coding a very important application for N9; and I'm interesting to have a N950 in order to accelerate my development.

The state of development of this project for N9 is at begining, but I wrote the same application for a device of my compagny (I'm linux embedded developer), and I just need to adapt the concept for Meego...

I can discuss about my application project, and his concept...
This application will be free, and GPL, and translation for English and French will be availlable.

Just if someone can explain me how to subscribe to this program ?

Thanks

Re: Summer'12 Device Program
 

I think Coding Competition is a way to go for You:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=83761

Re: Summer'12 Device Program
 

I'd like to partecipate to the coding competition, how should I submit my application?
The wiki just links to this topic.
Is there some place with more info or I just have to wait?

Thanks

EDIT: Sorry, wrong topic. :p

Re: Summer'12 Device Program
 

Being in the Southern hemisphere, I always feel a little hard-done by when the rest of the world refers to global events as "Summer '12", or any other northern season. Not that it really matters of course, but please think of use when coming up with new names ;)

Re: Summer'12 Device Program
 

@szopin, vetsin Thank you for your kind words. when looking my thanks-count I know I have done something correctly. And yes I have N950, but I'm not very excited of that because it is too closed. And when I hacked it little more open, my contributions can't be used by others [e.g http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?t=4224 ]. I also got bored because there were no good way to distribute libraries (yes, I have pushed several libraries to the maemo extras :D). I'm afraid that N9 has every same faults than N950.

I have got Lumia 800 from Nokia, nice sentiment, but useless apparatus for developer/hacker [ https://aaporantalainen.wordpress.co...nux-developer/ ].

If Nokia is still hiring people to the Maemo-team, I would happily postpone my PhD for couple of months/years. (Is this too informal job application? :p)

Re: Summer'12 Device Program
 

I think before I may have suggested to permit "+1"s for deciding community awards. Your comments have me reconsidering that. Perhaps we should permit others to provide reasons in support of a nomination so that the deciders of the awards can review the person's contributions - a simple "+1" indicates support but doesn't convey any meaningful information in that regard.

Re: Summer'12 Device Program
 

I still think that submitting without reasoning is best way, as people deserving Communtiy awards are well known to the Council already. Now we have something like "Give device to someone, because he's painting nice pictures via mypaint" (no offense to creative tone, he can't influent if someone is submitting him or not...), c'mon...

/Estel

Re: Summer'12 Device Program
 

What about this for the Nokia Store & Qt 5 activities, then:

* Submissions to be made in a wiki page at wiki.maemo.org.
* Additional thread in talk.maemo.org Developer forum open for questions, feedback, announcements, etc.

Out of my mind, others might find more connections:

Apps @ Nokia Store

* All maemo.org users with N9 / N950 have the Nokia Store client installed.
* Moving to the Store packages spread in forum threads and similar help getting more potential users for those apps.
* Entries at the Nokia Store may make a reference to maemo.org and link to support threads here, bringing new users.
* Going through the Nokia Store QA might help some apps getting better quality / polishing.

Besides, the Nokia Store (Ovi Store before) has been always on-topic here. We had lengthy discussions when it was hard to publish for individuals. There was a thread open recently when there were problems in the app intake. All that seemed natural, and I feel this proposal fitting here equally well. Even if "Nokia Store" is in the title the central point are community developers found here.

Qt 5

* Porting Qt 4 community apps to Qt 5 puts the current community in a path for the future. Not only at Nokia, also among other platforms upgrading / updopting Qt.
* Power users in the short term and perhaps regular maemo.org users in the future may also benefit from good Qt 5 support in the N9 / N950. In practice this could mean more & fresh apps coming in the future.
* Increasing the awareness of maemo.org and this cool forum full of potential betatesters among Qt developers can't be bad either. The regular maemo.org developers are aware of Qt Project and Qt DevNet but the other way around is less clear at this point. For instance, most QtonPi participants have probably never registered here.

Re: Summer'12 Device Program
 

Alright, let's say that Nokia Store & Qt 5 activities are ready to start. The Code Competition is getting there. The Community Awards have a new council to decide upon (anybody volunteering a description in the wiki page?).

Can we aim to have a joint announcement of all activities? Next week? A blog post that all of us can link, RT, etc would be nice. What do you think?