qgil | # 131 | 2009-11-20, 13:56 | Report

These days are being quite hectic and the Long Weekend itself is growing out of our initial expectations. Next Monday I will let Arabella (Forum Nokia) to handle the finishing of the agenda. It would be good if there would be a community representative since until now it's only me bridging between everybody.

Arabella is a UX specialist and she has discussed a lot of ideas already with the rest of professional designers joining the UX event.

VDVsx | # 132 | 2009-11-20, 14:14 | Report

Don't know if I can help or if help from the community is still needed, but fell free to ask .

conny | # 133 | 2009-11-22, 10:29 | Report

I'm still not completely sure how this event will work, so my suggestion is maybe not feasible, but here it goes...

I have something for concepting and if there is someone with good coding and probably math skills, we could maybe implement it during the weekend.

I would call it Lightscribe, Lighttalk, Laserwrite or something similar. Basically you enter some text. Then you hold the screen of your device facing away from you over your head in portrait orientation. Now you wave your arm continuously from left to right. If you are in a dark place the formally entered text should be visible as a ghost image readable even from far away.

The idea is of course not mine, there are already devices like that:
http://www.gadzooki.com/cool-stuff/lighttalk-ii/

Still, it could be something pretty neat if the display of the N900 is bright enough. Also it could be something with a little wow-factor which IMO has something to do with positive user experience and which is still lacking on the platform.

We have many good/nice/solid/useful apps, but we're missing out the wow-apps

RevdKathy | # 134 | 2009-11-22, 10:36 | Report

I'm hoping the Documents stuff will have a session thrashing out how to write stuff for new users/ non-techs in user-friendly language. I fear some of the highly technical people don't realise how inaccessible some of this place is to n00bs.

Texrat | # 135 | 2009-11-23, 04:26 | Report

Exactly. If I was there that would be my focus, so I'm counting on you Kathybear!

lcuk | # 136 | 2009-11-23, 05:20 | Report

conny,

the Push N900 competition had a proposal (which was going to use liqbase) which did what you are talking about

http://wouwlabs.com/blogs/jeez/wp-co...tation_pov.pdf

i almost fell off my chair when I saw it, cos it was buried away in the middle of a bunch of canola updates.


I have many concepts that I would like to evolve along very similar interwoven groundings, from things like tic-tac-toe (perfect touchscreen stuff) to the full orchestra collaborative app.
I decided on the calendar because it can be used for many other practical things even though it wont use all the strengths, it does go over multiple file construction and will hopefully touch on collaborative editing and stuff
I want to get the coding for the network based liqflow working properly as well and that has technical challenges which would make it a really good challenge.
essentially I just want to make use of sketches and get the devices talking to each other locally.

sjgadsby | # 137 | 2009-11-23, 05:37 | Report

"Tentative" happily removed from thread title.

conny | # 138 | 2009-11-23, 07:12 | Report

lcuk, thanks for the pointer - it looks really cool. Only difference is, that they are using a grid of external LEDs and I was thinking about using the display and the build in accelerometers directly. I'll have to think about something else now

lorebett | # 139 | 2009-11-24, 08:14 | Report

I'd be interested to.

http://maemo.org/profile/view/lorebett/

I've been working on open source software for a while now

http://www.lorenzobettini.it/web.php/Main/Software

and also on Qt based software.

I'm a researcher on Computer Science, basically on language design and implementation.

cheers
Lorenzo

qgil | # 140 | 2009-11-24, 08:33 | Report

Please register at http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo-Barcelona_Long_Weekend