A short introduction about N9 camera stack:
Camera stack for N9 is built on top of V4L2 subdev and media controller interfaces.

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First off, if you came here looking for a eulogy for Pope Benedict, you found the wrong page. I didn't know much about the man, was wary of his life-story, and what little of his theology I encountered I disagreed with.

Developing CuteSoma and maintaining it for three different platforms (Nokia N9, Windows Phone, BlackBerry 10) is really taking me a lot of time. I've many features in mind to add but I can't dedicate much spare time to them and to do it I should take time from other paid projects. I've also discarded the idea to make CuteSoma a paid app, because it's been always free (except the Windows Phone one that was non-free for just a month, but only 6 people "SIX" bought the app).

So I decided to open a fundraising campaign on Indiegogo that is a service like KickStarter, but it's available all around the world (not just in USA and UK like Kickstarter).

What do I Need & What You Get

I would like to raise at least 5.000€ to be able to keep maintaining the existing features and to implement new one. Developing for 3 different platforms really takes a lot of time. I also need to find a way to get a Windows Phone 8 device because at the moment I cannot test some features using just the emulator.

What the application currently does:

• You can view the list of Soma.fm channels
• You can listen any channel

Features I would like to add:

• Scrobbling song to Last.fm
• Write a new MediaSource for Windows Phone (the default one is quite bugged and I need to implement one from scratch)
• Port the BlackBerry10 version to the native CascadesUI

The Impact

Funding the development of CuteSoma you will make thousands of people really happy, because they will be able to listen to Soma.fm on their Nokia N9, Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10 devices. You will also make me feel apreciated for all the hours I'm spending to write the code

Completly Opensource

Yes. CuteSoma is completly opensource. I keep my source code on GitHub and BitBucket and it's always updated. All the CuteSoma versions are released under the GPL license.

• CuteSoma for Nokia N9 source code: https://github.com/andreagrandi/CuteSoma
• CuteSoma for BlackBerry 10 source code: https://github.com/andreagrandi/CuteSoma/tree/bb10
• CuteSoma for Windows Phone source code: https://bitbucket.org/andreagrandi/cutesoma/src

Other Ways You Can Help

If you want to contribute but you can't or you don't want to send money, you could help me in the following ways:

1) Download and use the application:

• Nokia N9: http://store.ovi.com/content/205737
• Windows Phone: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/cutesoma/387185ca-1328-4d1c-a4c2-45568cf06470
• BlackBerry 10: http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/20200430/

2) Tweet/Blog about this fund raising campaign: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cutesoma-soma-fm-client/x/2353169

Year ago we had Linaro Connect right after FOSDEM so I decided to skip and walk to Golden Gate instead. But this year there were no conflicts!

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The four wheels spinning MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan

Eighteen months ago, following the launch of the N9, Quim Gil posted his thoughts that even if the N9 was the "only MeeGo device from Nokia", the future wasn't all dead: the Linux kernel, Qt, WebKit and a "swipe" UX are "what really matters about MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan when it comes to discuss about future products, platforms and ecosystems. Note that these four pieces are very versatile and flexible, they can play with each other and they can also head towards other paths, offering many possibilities for future products."

Whew, January is pretty much over already, and there haven't been any updates here. So this means here's a short cumulative update of what's happened over the last few weeks:

Tetrepetete
If you are not afraid of falling blocks, and don't mind the lack of colors, give Tetrepetete a try. Not to be confused with a game of a totally different name, this game brings falling blocks of 4 to your N900 and N950/N9. While the full color version is still not available as such, the free greyscale version is up for grabs as .deb on the website. Including a cameo appearance by That Rabbit from That Rabbit Game for no good reason. Play or discuss. Or be productive. Or something.

SMS Backup GUI
Instead of rolling my own solution from scratch, I found the wonderful MeegoSMSBackupRestore project by Tony Wang, which is a command-line tool for Harmattan devices to backup and restore SMS messages (as if that wasn't clear from the application name..). It was missing a GUI, so I've added one. The announcement and download, as well as the Debian source package (.dsc, .tar.gz) are available from an Internet near you. Feel like Git? We have you covered as well.

apkenv updates
If you haven't been watching the apkenv Git repo closely (I know you haven't), you might have missed the Pandora port by crowriot, which - while not being directly useful to Maemo/MeeGo users as such - also brought improvements to the Cut the Rope module, which somehow works now. To be discussed at talk.maemo.org, and patches (as always) welcome.

In other (totally unrelated) news, the thesis is done (yay!).

I left my job at Igalia at the beginning of this month, after a bit more than two years working there.

These past two years have been incredible: I was living in Finland for almost the whole 2011, participating in the MeeGo project, and then spent 2012 working from A Coruña's offices, working on WebKit and other technologies. I enjoyed it a lot, got really attached to the people there -- some of them I call friends now --, and grew a lot professionally.

Igalia is organized in a flat structure, where we take more responsibilities than just coding, and where the ultimate step is to become a partner. However, I currently have the feeling that I want to focus more on the technical side of things, to gain more expertise, and that would be too complicated without neglecting these other responsibilities -- the kind of responsibilities that take time and energy. Then, being honest with my colleagues, the responsible thing was leaving.

I have only started looking for new opportunities since I announced my decision, so things are still a bit unclear. We will be quite probably leaving Spain and heading North: we would like to go to The Netherlands, but we don't discard anything in advance.

If your company needs a Software Engineer, chances are I could be of help, so take a look at my profile in LinkedIn, and don't hesitate to ask me for my CV or other details. And, if you're so kind, please pass the word and help me find a new cool place!

My life has changed upside down recently: I have been accepted to Saarland University Graduation School and I will move to Germany soon. I will try to keep this updated as possible.

At last! I’m happy to report that I merged the MTP backend to gvfs master yesterday. It’ll show up in the upcoming 1.15.2 release, and for Ubuntu users, I’ve updated my PPA to include builds for Precise, Quantal and Raring.

Enjoy!