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My vision of Maemo ... at least a part of it

We say that the Nokia N900 running Maemo 5 is a computer. It is a computer in your pocket. What an earth do we mean? Let me try to explain what I think. This is my interpretation. A computer of 2009 -- not 1999 When I talk about a computer, I talk...

Amsterdam flash marathon

Summit is over, a huge thanks to everyone who attended and made the event memorable! Now that (almost) everyone has gotten home, it’s time to tell you how Soumya, Daniel, Quim, Lasse and me spent our Thursday. The story begins back home at...

Update on the N900 FM Radio

Success! We can receive FM radio on the N900 now. Controlling the FM radio in the N900 is tricky stuff. At first, the hardware is disabled for power saving reasons. Bluetooth has to be powered up, the I2C communication bus has to be powered up, and...

Maemo Social News launched

Today has been a big day for maemo.org: not only was the Maemo Community Calendar released for beta...

Fremantle Community SSU – Preview (screenshots)

The work on the Maemo 5 Community SSU continues apace and should be ready for primetime very soon. I thought it would be informative to showcase some of the upcoming features in the form of screenshots. Disclaimer: These screenshots were taken from...

Qt and Open Governance

It has been a while since my last blog. Last time, I talked about how the Qt repository in Git was one year old. It was a humorous way of showing the growth and...

Here Is Why The PR 1.2 Firmware For The Nokia N900 Is Late

The world has been anxiously waiting for the PR 1.2 firmware for the N900 for...

Maemo's community involvement infrastructure is what MeeGo needs

Nokia's Maemo and Intel's Moblin are merging to form MeeGo, a development environment for a new class of internet-connected devices ranging from smartphones...