Look what turned up in the post today.
I have big plans for this little beauty. First I need to play around with it but on my list of things to do in the not too distant future is port Entertainer to the beagle board with the intentions of running it on the new Maemo 5 platform.
Another day, another video; this time its Nokia's Head of Marketing Peter Schneider. In this talk, Peter details what we can expect from Fremantle, the next iteration of the Maemo platform.
"What can we get out of Fremantle" - Peter Schneider - Nokia from Jamie Bennett on Vimeo
Part 2 of the two part series recorded at the OSiM conference in Berlin is now online. Dave Neary starts by giving a history of Maemo and continues on talking about the community and its way forward. Niels Breet highlights some of the issues the Maemo website is facing and proposes future changes.
This time the video is in 720p (click the full screen button). I'm still experimenting with video hosting sites; this one is on blip.tv. It would of been uploaded to vimeo but it constantly failed on upload for some reason. Maybe next time.
Part 1 of the Maemo developer session that was held as OSiM World can now be found online.
In this talk, Nokia discuss the future of the Maemo platform. Its 57 minutes long but its well worth watching. Part 2 will follow tomorrow.
I will also be releasing the high definition versions of all the talks (once they have been transcoded) via bittorrent so if you want to watch in lovely high-def, you will have to wait a while.
The first of many OSiM and Maemo Summit recordings have been put online. This one is of Dr Ari Jaaksi's keynote speech at OSiM World 2008 where he discusses the future of the Maemo Platform.
So as I sit by the river in Berlin, sipping a cappuccino, I can't help but reflect over the last 5 days.
I arrived in Berlin in time for OSiM where I pretty much manned the Nokia booth constantly for the two days. I got to meet lots of new and old faces alike and the traffic to the booth was constant. People as diverse as students from a UK university to key people in multi-national companies were asking questions and showing a genuine interest in what the Maemo platform has to offer, now, and in the future.
On Thursday a well attended Maemo dev session was held. The new technologies that will be used in Fremantle were discussed (the video will be online soon) and it seemed to generate quite a bit excitement, especially when Nokia committed to opening up former closed sourced components.
Then on Friday it was time for the Summit.
The Maemo developer session at OSiM 2008 served to show Nokia's stance on the future of openness on the internet tablets. They have signalled their intentions by today open sourcing many components that were once closed including the wifi and low level hardware monitoring drivers.
Wow, just got back from recording Ari Jaaksi's keynote speech at OSiM and he managed to drop a couple of bombs including:
More information will be made available at the developer session tomorrow and over the course of the Maemo Summit on Friday and Saturday.
On another positive note, Nokia dumped a whole lot of patches to the Linux kernel early today to enable HSPA support on OMAP3 processors. Well done Nokia.
So, in little over a week I will be travelling to Berlin to attend the OSiM conference and then the first ever Maemo summit. In true community fashion, I decided that rather than be a bystander to these events, I my as well help out as much as I can.
At OSiM I will be trying to coordinate the community presence on the Nokia booth. We still need volunteers to help answer questions from the public and showcase the many cool apps that we have available to us as tablet users. If your attending OSiM and would like to help, please edit the wiki page with details of when your available. Hopefully we can capitalise on all the excitement building due to Ari Jaaksi talk on the future of the Maemo platform and the Nokia dev session.
This years Mameo summit will be held at c-base in Berlin. I will be charged with video recording as much of the event as possible and distributing it afterwards. The plan is to make available audio recordings of most, if not all talks. In addition to this there will be video recordings of the main talks along with interviews and 'behind the scenes' footage.
I will be meeting with the c-base guys on the Tuesday night before the event to view a music concert they're hosting and have a chat about how the event will best be recorded. Over the two days I will be using a Panasonic HDC-SD5 high definition camcorder to capture as much as possible and Tim Samoff with be snapping away with his trusty Canon 5d.
All in all there should be good coverage of the two days (and nights) so for those people who can't make the event, you can at least experience it in digital form.
OK so I'm late to the party please go easy as I've had to endure a 10 1/2 hour trip back from Disney Land Paris where I took the kids for the last 8 days, 'pooped out' isn't a good enough phrase!
Anyway, I wholeheartedly agree with the final choice of design for the new Maemo logo. It oozes potential for merchandise and is both simple and elegant. I liked a lot of the other designs too but this just stood out as a solution that fitted the problem perfectly.
Congratulations to glaoliver (no Maemo wiki user page to link to unfortunately) and I hope to be proudly parading my new Maemo t-shirt soon.
A few times now on the N800 I have found myself wanting to do something more than finger type with the on screen keyboard (OSK). Usually I can type quite fast with it but when you are doing complicated character, symbol and number input it can be a royal pain in the (you can guess the rest). So my solution?
So the Maemo Summit registration is now open. Registration is free and if you can make it to Berlin on September 19th and 20th then it will most definitely be the place to be.
Quim Gil's post covers it all but one of the less covered aspects is that of promotion. This event is the first one the Maemo community has seen. Traditionally these events start small and grow but this summit has the potential to be an important part of the mobile and open source space that it deserves to be big from the start.
So, blog, link, talk about the event and hopefully we can get a turn out to rival OSim's (A little event held the preceeding couple of days ;))
See you there!?
