Meeting held on FreeNode, channel #maemo-meeting (logs)
Attending: Woody14619, Ivgalvez, SD69

Summary of topics (ordered by discussion):

• Elections
• Bylaws updates
• Legal status and paperwork
• Back-burner items and path forward
• Misc topics

Topic 1 (Elections)

• Elections for CC are underway, all looks to be working well.
• Banners were posted on TMO by Reggie for CC Election and Council Elections.
• Ivan suggests Woody14619 do a thread/wiki page about the voting system.
• The ML moderation is not happening, need to check X-Fade on that.

Topic 2 (Update on bylaws)

• Updates from Woody and TMO are posted in TMO.
• We should do at least one more round, using blog/ML, etc.

Topic 3 (Legal status, paperwork)

• Hildon Foundation paperwork is in, we now exist (or will very soon).
• Next steps include setting up a bank account, negotiating contracts.
• Ivan suggests we use the donation policy from Mer.

Topic 4 (Path forward)

• Discussion about the next steps for the Foundation and Council.
• The suggestion of creating a to-do list to hand to both next cycle is made.
• One Council member suggested that the community and potential nominees don't know the status of Reggie's reluctance to transfer TMO, and that the status should be made public before the election nomination period closes.  The majority felt it was not prudent to disclose it announce it publicly, but instead to inform nominees directly.
• The suggestion of creating a "things candidates should know" list is made.

Topic 5 (Misc/reminders)

• SD69 wants to setup a "coming soon" landing page for Hildon Foundation.
• SD69 takes action to donate his domain and the one NielDK has to foundation.

Due to time demands meeting minutes were not produced until 9-25.  Sorry for the delay!

Meeting held on FreeNode, channel #maemo-meeting (logs)
Attending: Woody14619, SD69, ZogG, djszapi, DocScrutinizer

Pre-meeting discussion:

• A primary worker in QT5 development takes issue with those getting awards for QT5 development, but not helping on porting for the N9.

Summary of topics (ordered by discussion):

• Elections (Council and CC)
• Update on bylaws
• Misc topics

Topic 1 (Elections)

• Woody14619 has updated scripts to allow single-token to multi-election voting.
• The CC will be setup and in effect will be a test of the system, having 7 elections on one token.

Topic 2 (Bylaws)

• SD69 will have yet another revision out this weekend, shaping up nicely.

Topic 3 (Misc)

• SD69 discusses issues around Foundation setup.
• OBS and such are discussed, movement to continue collaboration with Mer touched on.
• Discussion from before the meeting continues...

Due to time demands meeting minutes were not produced until 9-25.  Sorry for the delay!

Meeting held on FreeNode, channel #maemo-meeting (logs)
Attending: Woody14619, Ivgalvez, SD69i, DocScrutinizer05, Kerio

Summary of 15:00 meeting with X-Fade:

• Council elections were announced, X-Fade will help w/ elections.
• Discussion on using a single token for multiple elections.
• X-Fade commits to handling CC if Woody can make single-token work.
• Bergie will look at why Merlin can't get access.
• Nokia rep for giving SSL certs for sites has gone missing.

Summary of topics (ordered by discussion):

• Council Elections Started
• Infrastructure status
• Bylaws updates

Topic 1 (Council Elections Started )

• Woody announced elections, things are moving along.

Topic 2 (Infrastructure discussion)

• Woody will look to update the voting software to do multi-token voting.
• We should be able to use the machine for CC if that gets done soon.

Topic 3 (Bylaws updates)

• New questions are being asked, some require more info, all please review.
• SD69 is doing a revision with required legal bits.
• We should attempt to settle bylaws before the 15th.
• We should re-post articles into TMO/ML/Blog, etc.

Topic 4 (Misc)

• Discussion about bylaws and Karma, how to codify?

“Igalia wallpaper for the N9/N950”

Some weeks ago we decided to do an upgrade to the information that we are showing in our Igalia’s website. Due to these changes, I had the chance to play a little bit with some new graphic material that was used in the upgrade.

As a result, I’ve created based on Opsou’s Pedro Figueras original idea some different wallpapers for most of my GNU/Linux powered devices.

Just click in the images and go to download them at their original resolution.

I’ve uploaded it to a public Git repository which you can download with the following command:

~#  git clone http://git.igalia.com/art/wallpapers.git

“4×3 Igalia wallpaper”

“16×9 Igalia wallpaper”

“Igalia wallpaper for the N900/N810/N800/N770”

gPodder 2.20.2 has been released today, and gPodder 3.3.0 has also been released. Version 2.20.2 is for users of Maemo 4 (N800/N810) and Maemo 5 (N900) and version 3.3.0 is for MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan users (N950/N9).

The reason why another 2.x release comes out at this point in time is because YouTube downloading was broken by another website change recently, and of course we don't want to leave our good old Maemo users without their daily YouTube video fix. A full list of changes for Maemo 4 and 5 can be found in the 2.20.2 release announcement.

Version 3.3.0 for MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan brings some nice features like download resuming, filters for unfinished files, scroll position improvements and display of the publish date and file size in the shownotes. Of course, 3.3.0 also includes the YouTube download fix. A full list of changes can be found in the 3.3.0 release annoucement.

As a side note, Maemo 5 support has now been completely removed from the master branch as of 3.3.0 (it has never been officially supported, but you could kind of run in on the N900 with some motivation and work). N900 users really wanting to use gPodder 3 should use it on Nemo Mobile, supporting gPodder 3 and its QML UI in Maemo 5 is just too much work, and the time working on gPodder is better spent improving the Harmattan version and making sure that the 2.x branch doesn't break.

Here's the run-down of the release status for various versions and targets:

gPodder 2.20.2 is ready for testing in Extras-Testing for Maemo 5 Fremantle.
gPodder 2.20.2 is already in Extras for Maemo 4 Diablo.
gPodder 3.3.0 has been uploaded to Nokia Store QA for MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan.
gPodder 3.3.0 has also been uploaded to the MeeGo Community OBS.

I've somehow lost my good old "MaemoSDK" VirtualBox VM, so while I'm setting up the new VM, here are the instructions in case I or somebody else needs to do that again.

Front Page

Hildon Foundation Board nominations

Randall Arnold has put forth his candidancy for the upcoming Hildon Foundation Board election. Randall is a 3-term past council member with a long history of community involvement. Part of Randall's announcment stated: "I've been very concerned with the negative tone I see permeating our community" Randall joins Tim Samoff as the candidates who have declared so far.

Read more (maemo.org)
Read more (wiki.maemo.org)

New version of open source flasher (0xFFFF) for Maemo devices released

The Open Free Fiasco Firmware Flasher (0xFFFF) has long been the only open source alternative to Nokia's own FIASCO flasher. Last week Pali Rohár announced a new release: "Now after 4 years new version 0.5 of Open Free Fiasco Firmware Flasher 0xFFFF was released. It is only bug fix release which fixing generating and unpacking Fiasco images used on Nokia N900." Pali is rewriting the next version for better FIASCO image handling and additional protocol support (eMMC, cold flashing). The current release is available from his website, and the source is on git.

Read more (maemo.org)
Read more (nopcode.org)
Read more (github.com)

In this edition (Download)...

1. Front Page
   • Hildon Foundation Board nominations
   • New version of open source flasher (0xFFFF) for Maemo devices released

I received a Raspberry Pi this week (thanks Nokia & QtonPi!) and naturally baked Qt5 into it as the first thing. Started by just installing premade RPi Qt5 package, but as qmlscene is not yet included, went for building Qt5 following loosely these instructions. About 2 hours later, I had system setup with latest Raspbian image running Qt5 QML apps.

Last month when Qt5 first beta was coming together I prepared this "Qt5 Cinematic Experience" technology demo and got some good feedback. Samuel Rødal (btw check out his awesome "Qt 5 based 3D Wayland compositor" video!) kindly tested that it works also in RPi. Yes, it worked and was pretty fast also, but not even close to perfect... Now armed with RPi I wanted to spend some quality time with it, experimenting what the GPU (Broadcom VideoCore IV) likes and hates. So here comes "Qt5 Cinematic Experience - Raspberry Pi Edition":



The changes made for this RPi version are:

• Original version was quite scalable, but it was optimized for ~N9 screen resolutions. I wanted to run RPi in full HD 1080p (1920x1080) so adjusted things to fit better for the larger screen, making everything bigger and better. Though more pixels means more work for CPU&GPU so..
• Added FPS item in the top-left corner which shows how frequently QML animation loop gets called. Seeing this all the time while developing gives good feedback on how different changes affect the performance and also adds some demonstration sugar.
• Reduced smoke particles amount & size as that was a clear bottleneck.
• Another slowdown was DropShadow effect for big movie title texts, switched it now to plain Text.Outline style.
• On the other hand, increased shooting star sprite and its particles sizes as these changes didn't notably decrease the performance.
• On the RPi side used 128/128 CPU/GPU memory split and to get even more juices out, overclocked it to "medium" 700MHz -> 900MHz (see instructions)
• Went for a more colorful theme by default, raspberries are bright!

These RPi tuned sources as well as original ones are are available from here if you wanna grab and hack!

A couple of weeks ago, we at Igalia got a number of plugins published in the Nokia Store: Enlarge & Shrink, Gallery Tilt Shift plugin, and Facerecognition Reset Plugin. We had them ready for some time already, but still it was very difficult to pass the Nokia Store Quality Assurance: there is a list of valid directories where a Debian package can install its files, and they had missed the ones for Gallery plugins. So, in order to finally get over that problem, my friend and colleague Andrés had to "fight" with the Store QA people quite a bit: don't forget to thank him for this!

Although I developed only the Tilt Shift one, I will briefly introduce you the other two as well

Given that Maemo Planet is pretty quiet these days, I thought people wouldn’t mind a quick and almost, but not quite, off-topic post. Also, it’s hard to resist turning a bad pun into a blog title :-)