LinuxTag2008

CONFIRMED: the maemo track will happen on Thursday 29th

Linux for mobile devices will be strong this year in LinuxTag (Berlin, 28-31 May) and maemo will have a small track of on Thursday 29 afternoon.

It's a good time and place to talk about the maemo community. The setting of each session consists of 2-3 short presentations of 5-10 mins to kick off the discussion on each topic. All participants are now confirmed.

1. MAEMO COMMUNITY UPDATE

Where are we + questions and comments...

• Quim Gil - Opening & the Nokia perspective
• Gary Birkett aka lcuk - n00b & #maemo status
• Niels Breet aka X-Fade - A foot in each side

2. COOL MAEMO APPS

A couple of demos + meet the developers

• Florian Boor - GPE
• Alberto Garcia - Vagalume
• Urho Konttori - UKMP

3. COOL PLATFORM HACKS

A couple of demos + meet the developers

• Kees Jongenburger - Mamona & Open Embedded approach
• Armin Sauerbier aka pupnik - Emulators anywhere
• Kate Alhola - USB & cables do wonders

4. MAEMO.ORG: WHAT NEXT?

Mid term: What Nokia should do + What the community could do

• Marius Gedminas
• Simon Pickering aka lardman. Presentation here
• Sebastian Mancke

The session is on Thursday afternoon. We can organize an informal get together after that. Any ideas?

I will be there:

• Quim Gil
• Niels Breet
• Manrique (not 100% sure)
• Sebastian Mancke
• Florian Boor
• Nick Loeve
• John Littler
• Dave Neary
• Uwe Kaminski
• Alberto Garcia
• Marcell Lengyel
• Ricardo Ribalda

Will there be a maemo booth?

Actually yes. A demo point for Internet Tablets. Depends on us how we want to use it. More details about the space as soon as we have them.