Not often I actually write a blog post about me, but I suppose this is the place it happens when it happens. So this post is about me. And is a rather subdued celebration.

Overview

StatusNet for MeeGo makes it possible for Nokia N9, N950 and similar phones to connect to StatusNet compatible microblogging services such as Identi.ca. It supports viewing statuses in the phone’s event feed alongside Twitter and Facebook updates, viewing conversations, posting new status updates, replying to other people, following new users, favouriting messages and repeating messages.

New Features

• Context menu for each message brought up through a long press on a message.
• Retweeting/redenting of messages.
• Favouriting and unfavouriting messages.
• Following and unfollowing users.
• Privacy policy.
• New login screen.
• Registration link on the login screen.
• Fixes problem displaying statuses with no text in the event feed.

Download

Apps for MeeGo Testing Repository

Direct download: statusnet-meego_0.3-1_armel.deb

Source

License: GPL version 3.0 or later
Gitorious repository: https://gitorious.org/statusnet-meego-plugin
Ohloh project page: https://www.ohloh.net/p/statusnet-meego

Firefox for Mobile Firefox for Android: Docs for Building Add-on - http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog... June 13, 2012 from Mark Finkle's Weblog » Mozilla - Comment - Like

KDE Project:

• Calligra

As I posted the last time I blogged (which I really should do more often), I had some problems with Calligra Active on Android and the number of shared libraries it requires (various versions of android have different, but low, fixed maximums for the number of .so files that can be loaded in a single process). Since then I did several things to resolve that. One option would have been to go the "libkok" route, like we did when we developed/ported calligra/koffice to Maemo and the Nokia N900 and N9. There we basically rewrote the kdelibs cmake files to just build those files that we really need, and build it all into one big library. The big problem was that approach was that it was completely unmaintainable, which meant that we were basically stuck with whatever snapshot kdelibs version we chose to base that on. So instead of doing that I got out the CMake manual, and came up with some relatively simple cmake code that basically combines several existing targets into one new target. The downside to this is that it still has to build all the individual targets as well, so build times basically doubled, but other than that it gives me a nice "libkall.so" that contains all of kdelibs that Calligra Active depends on, combining 11 .so files into one. See here if you're interested in the CMake code I came up with. I did something similar for the libraries Calligra itself provides reducing the number of .so files even more.
(I had some problems to combine the various kdelibs libraries together because of the way automoc works. Basically when you have several source files with the same filename but different directores they will overwrite eachothers .moc file if they are built in the same target. To get around that I renamed some files).

In an effort to provide increased transparency of the operation of Council, meeting minutes are being provided via the Community Council blog. (Sorry for the delay in posting this week!)

Council logs for meeting on June 8th, 2012
Meeting held on FreeNode, channel #maemo-meeting (logs)

Attending: qgil, Woody14619, Estel, SD69, Pali
Ivan & NielDK were unable to attend.

Summary of topics:

• Questions on source for osso-backup (qgil)
• Questions on formalities in allocting devices to CA winners
• Review & status of past meeting AIs.
• IRC moderation / chanop status

Topic 1 (Questions to QGil):

• Will need to send names after verifying proper details are in user profiles on devel.nokia.com
• Winners will need to create an account if they don't have one.
• Confirmation on process for judging when a Council member is a potential CA winner is discussed.

Topic 2 (Review of AIs and status):

• Estel still creating formal Council intro blog, input needed.
• Ivan's AI on contacting devs to push packages is going well.
• Coding competition banner is up on TMO.
• Package movement in system will need to be via X-Fade until COBS.
• Cloaks have been requested, will show up when processed.
• Meeting minutes done, continuing AI for Woody.
• First set of eliminations for CA went smoothly.

Topic3 (IRC Moderation):

• Council is split on need for council representaion as IRC chanop
• Council could become chanop by status vs. by merrit, but should we?
• Insufficient Council present to vote, will be resolved later.

Post meeting topics (probably should have been in-meeting):

• Questions from Pali to qgil & council about libicd promotion.
• Discussion on OBS and enabling thumb in a repository are discussed.

Action Items:
Estel will do the Council intro blog (continued)
Ivan will continue with package list creation for promotion to Extras (continued)
Woody will do meeting minutes and post to blog after approval
All: Prepare for second wave of eliminations on CA and final CA decissions following week.
All: Discussion off-line about Topic #3 (IRC moderation) and vote there-on.

Front Page

maemo.org Coding Competition begins this week

The tradition of a community-run coding competition for Maemo and Meego devices continues this year. "Beginning Monday 11th June, and running for 3 months, new applications for Maemo and MeeGo Harmattan devices (and significant updates to existing ones) will be eligible to enter in this years competition. Whether you are an experienced developer or a beginner on your very first application, we have a category that suits you and your application! "

" Nokia has generously donated 14 N950s and 11 N9s that we will assign to the winners and runner ups across the various categories. There will also be a community bounty made up of individual donations which will also be shared out amongst the best placed entries." Entry is free, so all interested developers of all skill levels are encouraged to participate.

Read more (talk.maemo.org)

Community Awards submissions close June 12th

Just a reminder: Submissions for the Community Awards part of the 2012 Device Program close June 12th. So if you're interesting in submitting an application, do so before the end of tomorrow.

Read more (wiki.maemo.org)

In this edition (Download)...

1. Front Page
   • maemo.org Coding Competition begins this week
   • Community Awards submissions close June 12th
2. Community
   • Community Council meeting minutes
   • "Ask the Council!" thread recreated
3. Announcements
   • FotoShare N9
   • Seara - a Siri clone for Maemo 5
   • Qt Watermark - a photo watermarking tool
   • MohammadAG's Entertainment view on N950

Howdy! Do you remember the time before HD, amoled etc. super sharp screens? When pixels were so big that you could easily count them and any colors were luxury? This is your ticket back to these good ol' times: LedScreen Qt5 & QtQuick 2.0 component! Here is a video presenting it with example applications:



This component allows you to use any QML content as the source for the ledscreen, define led size and color or use colors from the source item. So it doesn't contain kitchen sink yet, but there's only so much you can fit into 60 lines of QML + GLSL with API documentation.. ;-)

Feel free to grab sources from here & modify & use as you want!

PS: Hoping to be able to develop & demo Qt5 soon on Raspberry Pi!

After doing some power benchmarking recently (1.2ghz kirkwood with gb net up = 5watts) I decided to work out how fast these arms can do useful work^TM. In the running is a Synology ds212j, DreamPlug running the Freedombox, Nokia n9 mobile phone, and an Intel 2600k just for working out where those relative numbers sit when compared to a desktop machine.



The above image shows the cipher performance of "openssl speed" across many machines. The 2600k is only single threaded, so could be many times faster in real world use by taking advantage of the cores. One interesting point right off the bat is that the 1.2Ghz kirkwood in the synology NAS is bested by the 1.0ghz CPU of the Nokia n9. Arms is not arms.

Removing the overload from the Intel i7 2600K from the graph we see that the Dreamplug is very close to the ds212j in terms of performance.
On the other hand, the digests show a distinct advantage to the Dreamplug setup. Again the n9 has a nice little lead on the others. Since a mobile phone can perform some useful work, one should perhaps also be demanding the NAS also offer handy features as well as just serving data blocks.


The RSA sign and verify graphs both show the same large slump for the ds212j unit. So for connection heavy workloads there would seem to be a large difference to the throughput you might get for the ARM you choose. On the other hand, the Dreamplug and ds212j both have similar performance on steam ciphers. So if connections are longer term then the difference will be less.

I would love to add benchmarks for the CuBox and QNAP 2ghz (TS-219PII) NAS units. It would also be interesting to use after market software on the ds212j and see the difference.

In an effort to provide increased transparency of the operation of Council, meeting minutes are being provided via the Community Council blog. Future meetings will also have full web transcripts via the maemo-meeting channel auto-logger.

Overview

Eyrie is an application for the Nokia N900, N950 and N9 phones that can find out information about music that’s playing nearby. The latest version adds support for the N900 in addition to the N9 and N950. On the N9/N950 there’s now a graphical waveform displayed whilst recording and on both platforms music is assessed more continuously allowing some songs to be recognised faster and providing more chance for songs that were previously problematic to be recognised.

Video

Video of Eyrie 0.2 running on both an N900 and N950

Downloads

N9/N950

Available in the Ovi Store

Also available through the Apps For MeeGo Testing Repository

N900

Available through extras-testing.

Source

License: GPL version 3.0 or later
Gitorious repository: https://gitorious.org/eyrie/eyrie
Ohloh project page: https://www.ohloh.net/p/eyrie