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Community Council meetings held every Friday, 18:00 UTC

Piotr Jawidzyk has publicised details of the new Maemo Community Council's meeting schedule. They are held "every Friday, 18:00 UTC, at IRC channel #maemo-meeting. Every interested Community Member is free (and welcome) to actively participate. Furthermore, after every meeting, minutes are published on Council's blog and News section of maemo.org."

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1. Front Page
   • Community Council meetings held every Friday, 18:00 UTC
2. Applications
   • Nokia Suite for Windows for Nokia N9 beta
3. Development
   • Fremantle chroot on Harmattan: N900 apps on N950
   • Porting Maemo & Harmattan Qt apps to BlackBerry 10
4. Community
   • Community Council meeting minutes
   • Maemo Community Awards winners announced
5. In the Wild
   • Soon-to-be-ex-Nokia employees form Meltemi support group on LinkedIn
6. Announcements
   • Updated NumptyPhysics port for Harmattan

I decided it's time to port qw The Game to Android, as a way to see how the publisher story works on Google Play compared to Ovi Publish and also to see how mature the Qt port to Android is.

Final results for Community Awards have been published.

Congratulations to all winners!

There is a final result, please check the Wiki list.

In order to receive the prize, it's mandatory that all awarded create an account at Nokia Developers. Once created, you need to add your postal information to your profile (otherwise Nokia won't know where to send the device).

Then we need to know your Nokia Developer ID (the login name at Nokia Developers that you have created). All the winners will receive a notification email, please respond to council@maemo.org including the following data:
- Full name
- ID at Nokia Developers
- email address.

Please send this data before next Monday, June 25th, as we need to provide the full list to Nokia to start sending the devices.

Thanks to everyone for participating and for your contributions to Maemo.org. We will need you more than ever in the following months, please keep your level of involvement with the community.

Openismus asked me to perform some benchmarks on Evolution Data Server. We wanted to track the progress of recent performance improvements and identify possible improvements. Therefore, I tested these versions of EDS:

This is the first post in a new BlackBerry category in my blog. Having attended the "BlackBerry 10 Dev Jam" in London last week, BB10 looks very interesting - and a spiritual successor to MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan, i.e. the Nokia N9.

It's particularly interesting as BlackBerry have created their own Qt/QML-based environment, called Cascades.

However, I've got an existing app, Bedside which is almost pure QML. Could I get it running? More detailed instructions will come later, but here's how I got to where I am:

1. Install the BlackBerry 10 Native SDK and developer environment.
2. Create a new BlackBerry Cascades C++ project, although we're going to use it for "plain" Qt (as described in this Chinese blog post).
3. Ensure you add <env var="QT_QPA_FONTDIR" value="/usr/lib/qt4/lib/fonts" /> to bar-descriptor.xml.
4. Copy qmlapplicationviewer.{cpp,h} from the existing project into APP/src/.
5. Put your QML resources in APP/assets/ (note you can't use asset://... URLs within the QML files, as you can with Cascades).
6. Replace main.cpp with a simplified version from your other project, for example:

#include <QtGui/QApplication>
#include <QtDeclarative>
#include "qmlapplicationviewer.h"

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
  QApplication app(argc, argv);
  QmlApplicationViewer viewer;
  viewer.setMainQmlFile("app/native/assets/main.qml");
  viewer.showFullScreen();
  return app.exec();
}

In particular, note the path to the main-QML-file.

And here's the initial version of Bedside (with no screensaver interaction yet) running on the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha:

UPDATE: With a bit more work, I've got a single source tree working: now I can deploy to Symbian, Maemo, Harmattan or BlackBerry 10 (using Qt SDK for the first three, and BB10 Native SDK for the latter).

Instructions are in this forum post.

This is the first post in a new BlackBerry category in my blog. Having attended the "BlackBerry 10 Dev Jam" in London last week, BB10 looks very interesting - and a spiritual successor to MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan, i.e. the Nokia N9.

It's particularly interesting as BlackBerry have created their own Qt/QML-based environment, called Cascades.

However, I've got an existing app, Bedside which is almost pure QML. Could I get it running? More detailed instructions will come later, but here's how I got to where I am:

1. Install the BlackBerry 10 Native SDK and developer environment.


2. Create a new BlackBerry Cascades C++ project, although we're going to use it for "plain" Qt (as described in this Chinese blog post).


3. Ensure you add <env var="QT_QPA_FONTDIR" value="/usr/lib/qt4/lib/fonts" /> to bar-descriptor.xml.


4. Copy qmlapplicationviewer.{cpp,h} from the existing project into APP/src/.


5. Put your QML resources in APP/assets/ (note you can't use asset://... URLs within the QML files, as you can with Cascades).


6. Replace main.cpp with a simplified version from your other project, for example:

#include <QtGui/QApplication>
#include <QtDeclarative>
#include "qmlapplicationviewer.h"

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    QApplication app(argc, argv);
    QmlApplicationViewer viewer;

    viewer.setMainQmlFile("app/native/assets/main.qml");
    viewer.showFullScreen();

    return app.exec();
}

In particular, note the path to the main-QML-file.

And here's the initial version of Bedside (with no screensaver interaction yet) running on the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha:

UPDATE: With a bit more work, I've got a single source tree working: now I can deploy to Symbian, Maemo, Harmattan or BlackBerry 10 (using Qt SDK for the first three, and BB10 Native SDK for the latter).

Instructions are in this forum post.

Community Council is glad to invite Community members, to weekly meetings!

Councilors meets every Friday, 18 UTC, at IRC channel #maemo-meeting. Every interested Community Member is free (and welcome) to actively participate. Furthermore, after every meeting, minutes are published on Council's blog and News section of maemo.org.

 

We're happy to talk with You!

Meeting held on FreeNode, channel #maemo-meeting (logs)

Attending: Woody14619, Estel, SD69, Ivgalvez, NielDK, Stskeeps

Summary of topics (ordered by discussion):

• Community Awards - approaching finale
• Quim's e-mail about Nokia follow-up
• IRC management
• QT-components-10 promotion
• Misc public topics

Topic 1 (CA planning):

• Submissions end Sunday at midnight UTC.
• We placed a self-imposed time limit of June 23rd for deciding winners.
• Coucil should prepare their votes, meeting to be held Tues.
• Email on the topic internaly is welcome as well.

Topic 2 (Quim's e-mail):

• There is general sadness at the state of things in Nokia.
• There is general happiness that Quim is still on board & keeping in contact.
• There is concern that this may be our "6 month" warning sign.
• Observation of Mer may be a good idea to avoid the same pits they've hit.

Topic 3 (IRC management):
>>>SD69 has an emergency & must leave.

• A group account is proposed to "manage problems".
• The concept is spoken against and rejected.
• The concept of crafting a solid policy is raised.
• Discussion is postponed as Estel drops.
• NielDK takes the action item to look at similar groups policies.

Topic 4 (QT-components-10 promotion):

• There is an issue with package promotion that needs to be addressed.
• TMO post is: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=1220864&postcount=16
• Woody takes AI to contact X-Fade, with followup from Ivan if needed.

Topic 5 (Misc public topics):

• Topic for next meeting: Chair responsibilities and speaking for Council
• AI Review: The "first blog" is still not done. Is it needed now?

Action Items:
All: Review CA applications Monday, meeting Tuesday. Woody: Contact X-Fade about qt-components-10 issue.
NielDK: Find other IRC/op policies for review & collaboration.

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Nokia closes down more software development

Meltemi, the not-so-secret, low-end, Linux-based, Qt-running platform for the "next billion" is just one of several casualties of Nokia's final confirmation of them as - more or less - a Microsoft OEM. Ars Technica's Ryan Paul wrote: "Embattled phone manufacturer Nokia has conducted another round of layoffs, reducing the company’s headcount by 10,000 employees. The company is tightening its focus and making deep cuts in areas that aren’t directly tied to its current Windows Phone strategy. In conjunction with the layoffs, Nokia has also reportedly terminated its Meltemi project. [...]"

That’s right, a couple of weeks ago new versions of SeriesFinale were released.
There was a long absence between these and the previous releases. The truth is that it has become more and more difficult for me to find the motivation (and time) to do work on an application for platforms I am not currently using. Still, I have had some emails from people showing their appreciation and Juan has also helped a lot (he is the reason there is also a new N900 release).

If you’re following the development of SeriesFinale, I have recently moved the repository over to GitHub (like I did for most of my projects). GitHub is so much faster than Gitorious and has nice features such as an issue tracker. Before you say it, although GitHub is not Open Source software, we’re talking about a hosted solution for Git repositories from a very cool company and I had no intentions of hosting Gitorious on my own anyway.

So what’s new in SeriesFinale? I need to differentiate between the platforms’ versions first.
Harmattan (N9) is on the 0.6.9 version and many bugs were solved like:
* Marking all episodes from the episodes’ list menu (nd#1)
* Episodes’ overview height (nd#9)
* Updating the shows season list
* Add a close button to show info dialog
* Add mark none action to the episodes’ list menu

There are still some issues when scrolling the lists which I’ve looked into and could not find any solution, I am convinced it actually has to do with the Python bindings of QML…

Fremantle (N900) is on version 0.6.10 and has less visible changes but the threads, languages and sorting functions were improved.

Adding the the new Harmattan version to the Nokia Store was also a challenge (it kept being rejected due to tiny details) but it eventually went through.

Be sure to test and vote for SF on Fremantle, or, in case you have an N9, get the new version from the Nokia Store: