Minutes for first Hildon Foundation Board meeting. VoIP meeting held on Google Hangout.

Attending:

• Randall Arnold / texrat
• Tim Samoff / timsamoff
• Ivan Galvez / ivgalvez
• Robert Bauer/ SD69
• Craig Woodward (intermittent) / woody14619

Note:

• Technical Issues persisted via Google Hangout: only Randy, Ivan and Tim had voice capability. Others participated via chat.

Public Meeting Minutes?

• Tim: Yes
• Randy: Some private; some public
• Ivan: Are they required?
• Rob: n/a
• Craig: They should be public, with exceptions of criticalinformation/NDA.

Bylaws, version 7:

• Bylaws unanimously approved by all Board members.

Board Officers:

• Chair: Randall Arnold
• Secretary: Robert Bauer
• Treasurer: Currently, Tim Samoff
  • Proposed to ask Cosimo Kroll/zehjotkah to occupy this role.
• Cosimo has agreed to take the position and will be appointed at the next Board meeting.)

Bank account?

• Find out about bank account (ask Niel Nielsen/nieldk).

Meeting schedule:

• VoiP every two weeks?
• IRC meetings (Board Business) every two weeks & VoiP meetings(Official Board Meetings) monthly?
• Will schedule regular meetings on Google Calendar (which will also create a permanent Hangout for the Board).

Transitioning tasks from Council to Board. Separation of current tasks.

• Ensure Council remains communication conduit for community.
• Board organizes operational decisions.
• Board needs an official statement for Board responsibility withcommunity.
  • Ask Craig Woodward about maemo.org channel(s) of Board communication.
• After the meeting, Ivan asked X-Fade to set up the same mechanism that Council is using for communication. In the meantime, Council account can be used.

Funding activities:

• Nothing to report at this time.

Private session concerning some NDA-protected issues (recorded elsewhere).

Infrastructure problems:

• To be discussed via email.

Meeting concluded.

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Getting Android Dalvik "Hello world" app running on Harmattan

Thomas Perl has been working on getting Android applications to run from within Harmattan using the Dalvik VM from Nitdroid. Thomas gives detailed instructions on how this was acheived and shows an example program running. He mentions in the comments that he is not really interested in taking the idea any further at this point, but gives some starting points in case someone wants to pick it up. The terms "chroot," "reflash," and "brick" are thrown around from time-to-time, so be sure you understand the risks and know what you are doing before you try this at home.

Read more (thpmaemo.blogspot.co.uk)

In this edition (Download)...

1. Front Page
   • Getting Android Dalvik "Hello world" app running on Harmattan
2. Community
   • qwazix running for Community Council

Introduction to Eina_Log:

Introduction to Eina_Log:

After a loooong break, I am back to this. I have to confess that I had had several new/cool stuff during this pause: new projects, mind-blowing findings, exciting/stressful experiences, lovely/irritating people. And all of this had consumed a lot of my free time. I am not saying that I hadn´t had time at all: I had done some new/different things with such slots of time than only writing about technical stuff.

Well, but anyway, let´s keep track of new stuff. The main reason to start blogging again was the simply fact that I am not used to describe all solutions for tricky problems in general: how to cross-compile certain applications for ARM devices, how to set up a smart CI environment, and so forth. I swear I have tried it really hard, but my evil side always tells to myself: "if you need it some other day, you will remember it". So, this is also a kind of "Raul´s Recipes Book".

I am really convinced that it will work :-)

As part of my next posts, I will describe a bit more about how lovely is a CI environment for a relative huge project (of course, how you can set up all of this and put the pieces together). Specially, when it has such different clients, such as iOS, Android and QT applications.

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Hildon Foundation Board election results

The results of the inaugural Hildon Foundation Board election were released last week. The new 3-member board (which includes one of MWKN's own: Tim Samoff) will serve a one year term. Congratulations to your new Hildon Foundation Board!: "Winners are Ivan Galvez Junquera (ivgalvez), Randall Arnold (Texrat), and Tim Samoff (timsamoff)."

The election of the board marks the beginning of maemo.org's transition to an independent entity from Nokia as funding for maemo.org will come to a close at the end of the year. The new board will act as the governing body for the legal entity (Hildon Foundation) that will be taking over control of maemo.org. The new board members are in for a tough job. The staff of MWKN, being familiar with the sorts of challenges they're likely to face, wishes them good luck.

Read more (maemo.org)

Proposed "release candidate" for non-profit Hildon Foundation by-laws

With maemo.org's service contract coming to a close at the end of the year, Nokia's support of the community will end. In a response to this, a non-profit organization, the Hildon Foundation, is being formed to take over operation of maemo.org and its services. The by-laws for the foundation have been undergoing a long process of writing and re-writing over the past two months, and Craig Woodward posted the latest revision to the proposed by-laws on Talk: "Attached find the next (possibly last?) proposed revision of the bylaws. There are several small changes (capitalization, word changes, typo fixes), and one major change around what happens with elections when nominees die or withdraw their nomination. [...] Please review these and get comments in fast!"

With the Hildon Foundation Board election results posted, the new board will likely be voting on the by-laws within the next week or two. Anyone interested in reviewing them before they're instated should do so as soon as possible.

Read more (talk.maemo.org)

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1. Front Page
   • Hildon Foundation Board election results
   • Proposed "release candidate" for non-profit Hildon Foundation by-laws
2. Development
   • Get involved in single public transport app to rule them all
3. Community
   • A Hildon Foundation Board Rules of Engagement proposal
4. Announcements
   • Android OpenGL ES game compatibility environment for Harmattan and Fremantle

As my mate Simón was writing short time ago in his post Announcing the Gallery Tilt Shift plugin for the Nokia N9, we got published at Igalia some plugins for enhancing the experience of the built-in Gallery application in the N9/N950 through the Nokia Store: Enlarge & Shrink Plugin, Gallery Tilt Shift Plugin, and Facerecognition Resetter Plugin.

The Enlarge & Shrink Plugin is a filter developed by Antía Puentes for the built-in Gallery application which applies a radial distortion to a picture featuring an enlarge or shrink effect (also known as punch or pinch).

The Gallery Tilt Shift Plugin is a filter developed by Simón Pena for the built-in Gallery application which makes a picture look like a miniature.

Finally, Facerecognition Resetter Plugin was developed by me. It is a add-on for the built-in Gallery application which is not a real filter for the pictures. Instead, it is just a way of forcing the deletion or un/protection of the face recognition database through its usage from Gallery. The main reason for doing this is a well known bug in the face recognition feature.

If you are experiencing that the the N9 is not recognizing faces any more or it is not giving any more suggestions just install Facerecognition Resetter Plugin and click on the “Protect” button. You want to do this even if you are not suffering this problem since this will prevent it from appearing in the future.

BTW, comments and reviews in the Nokia Store will be welcomed