This year’s Summer of Code has already started, and Epiphany has been lucky enough to get two students assigned. Let’s see who they are and what they’ll be working on.

After 5 wonderful years working with passionate and skilled people I am now moving to São Paulo to work at Facebook’s office for Latin America. My official role will be Partner Engineer.

This doesn’t mean that I will go away from KDE, neither from Qt. It just means that I will contribute more on my free time (as it was before Nokia acquired Trolltech) than during working hours.

I am thrilled with this opportunity and I am sure that all of you who know me are also happy with this announcement.

I will be a little bit offline the next days due to my move, but I will be checking emails regularly

 

Another May, another Ubuntu Developers Summit. This time I am in Oakland, California, USA (even if my tweets shows Dallas, Texas as geolocation).

As usual with US trips this one took insane amount of time. But I was 3cm from not going here… Why? Because I got stuck in toilet at home. Hopefully with help from neighbour I was able to bash door out and get to the bus stop on time.

Then standard set of bus, plane, plane, train and finally arrived in hotel. As my room was not yet ready I got 30$ coupon to bar to not waste time on waiting. Free meal/beer

We have been hard at work developing and improving the Nokia Data Gathering solution, and will be launching an exciting new version in May 2012. The Nokia Data Gathering 4.04 (Dazzling Dourado) release will include bug fixes and new features on the Java mobile client, as well as a brand new Nokia Data Gathering server and user interface. We will also be launching the first Windows Phone client of Nokia Data Gathering.

Come discover and try out Nokia Data Gathering 4.04! On 16 May 2012, the Nokia Data Gathering team will be at Seton Hall University to tell you all about the new Nokia Data Gathering 4.04 server, the new Windows Phone mobile app, mobile data collection case studies from around the world, and to give you a chance to try out Nokia Data Gathering 4.04 for yourself.

Please join us!

Event Nokia Data Gathering 4.04 workshop Date Wednesday, 16 May 2012 Time 09:00-12:00 AM Place Seton Hall University, 400 South Orange Avenue, South Orange, NJ 07079, USA Room Beck Rooms A, B, and C (Ground Floor of Walsh Library)

Nokia Data Gathering 4.04 is the result of a collaborative effort between Nokia, the Center for Mobile Research and Innovation at Seton Hall University and Microsoft. Learn more at http://projects.developer.nokia.com/ndg/

For more information about the workshop and/or Nokia Data Gathering, please contact kulsoom.ally 'at' nokia.com

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How will maemo.org introduce itself in 6 months?

A chance encounter with Henri Bergius and Michael Hasselmann in California led Quim Gil to share a few beers with them. Part of the conversation involved their shared experiences with Maemo and maemo.org. Quim reports that "Henri had a very good point: [top-level] pages like Intro or Development have been unchanged for years and now they don't reflect anymore the community that exists here."

"Updating these pages would require to think what is this website and this community today, and what does it want to become. It sounded like a good task to be driven by a newly elected Council. Six months is a decent period for discussion, planning and implementation considering that we are talking basically about editing plain web pages."

"In our discussion we agreed that maemo.org is still strong in the mobile user aspect. It is a community continuously active since 2005, open to discuss, experiment and collaborate on Maemo but also on related mobile topics where "related" can have a flexible definition."

Quim had to clarify he was asking this as a member of the community, rather than in any official capacity from Nokia. Separating Quim as an active and independent member of the community from his official role at Nokia is something that many people seem to have difficulty with. However, it would be a shame if such opinions prevented Quim from sharing his thoughts.

Read more (talk.maemo.org)

In this edition (Download)...

1. Front Page
   • How will maemo.org introduce itself in 6 months?
2. Development
   • Cocos2D port for Qt for Harmattan and Symbian
   • Fremantle on OBS status update
3. Community
   • Rob Bauer (SD69) running in Maemo Community Council election
   • Help improve maemo.org Packages interface
   • Proposal to rearrange TMO to provide common home to Maemo, MeeGo, Mer, NITDroid
4. Devices
   • Slideout Bluetooth keyboard turns N9 into N955
5. Announcements
   • Work-in-progress: Ubuntu One client for Nokia N9
   • gPodder 3.1.1 for MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan

A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla
2012-04-23 through 2012-04-29

A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla
2012-04-30 through 2012-05-06

Firefox for Mobile Meanwhile, in Firefox User-Experience - http://madhava.com/egotism... May 1, 2012 from Planet Mozilla: Madhava Enros - Comment - Like

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Nominations close today for Maemo Community Council elections

Today is the last chance to nominate yourself, or someone else, for the next six month Maemo Community Council. Currently, six candidates are standing meaning there will be a vote for the five person committee:

1) Iván Gálvez Junquera (ivgalvez)

2) Piotr Jawidzyk (Estel)

3) Joseph Charpak (jcharpak)

4) Craig Woodward (woody14619)

5) Arie Mark (Aries)

6) Niel Nielsen (NielDK)

Read more (wiki.maemo.org)

In this edition (Download)...

1. Front Page
   • Nominations close today for Maemo Community Council elections
2. Applications
   • Nokia Public Transport app now available for Harmattan
3. Development
   • Getting Python PySide apps into Nokia Store
   • Replacing MeeGo Community OBS discussion meeting minutes
   • Cordia HD alpha release (20120424) provides Fremantle stack for Mer
4. Devices
   • Memory/swapping tweaks to "improve N9 performance"
   • NITDroid - Android for N9 - alpha 3 now available
5. Announcements
   • Seagull Strike for Harmattan

A new version of gPodder, the podcast manager, has been released, and with it (as always) come some new features for the Harmattan (N950 and N9) version. The most visible on (apart from bugfixes) is the new multi-episode selection sheet, which allows users to select multiple episodes at once to either download, playback or delete. Options for "Select all", "Select downloaded", "Select none" and "Invert selection" are provided by the longpress context menu in that list and will modify the selection accordingly.

And yes (as some people are still surprised to learn that): With gPodder, you can also subscribe to YouTube and Vimeo channels (users) and download the videos to your device for easy offline viewing and archiving. Combined with the N9 Media Pushing plug-in by Georg Jens, you can then even play back your YouTube or Vimeo videos on DLNA devices on your home network. Of course, this also works for the RSS "video podcasts" that gPodder also supports in addition to YouTube and Vimeo.

gPodder 3.1.1 "The Preachification of Convincing John" has been uploaded to the Community OBS (Apps For MeeGo) and to Ovi Publish (Nokia Store), and should be available to users in the upcoming days. As always, enjoy this new release and report any bugs or feature requests at bugs.gpodder.org :)