The FOSK Certification will be a single low stakes entry level exam to test the FOSS knowledge and competency level of technical and non technical staff who are responsible for the day to day computer needs of Not for Profit organizations. This professional may work as a technical person, a circuit rider, account management or technical sales, executive positions or any other role that is responsible for recommending and/or choosing FOSS solutions for an organization.

To install Frothing you need to compile it inside
a Hildon compatible desktop environment.

To create such an environment have a look
at the Moblin site or the Maemo site.

Frothing was originally created for the Ubuntu
Mobile Guide as an example of how to port an
application written in C to the Ubuntu Mobile
Edition.

This guide is available online here and is good
to read for background information.

Compiling from Source

Either check out the source from svn or

grab the tarball to compile

The source can be checked out from the
repositories by:

svn checkout http://frothing.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ frothing

The tarball can be downloaded from
the project page and extracted by:

tar zxvf frothing-0.1.tar.gz

After unpacking/checking out the code, run the standard autotools commands inside your target:

./configure --enable-hildon
make
make install

Dependencies

On Ubuntu the dependencies can be satisfied by:

apt-get install build-essential libgtkhtml2-0 libgtkhtml2-dev libxml-perl libxslt1-dev
libglade2-0 libglade2-dev libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev
libhildondesktop-dev xulrunner

This project is also registered on Launchpad

The main objective of the event is to get the

community and the developers together to

discuss the roadmap, correct bugs and dream

about new functionality. If you never

collaborated with Django, or with any other open

source project for that matter, and you feel

like doing so now is your chance!

Lets' go!!

Pick something to work on and do it.

All sorts of tasks are available, from

hard-core hacking to improving documentation

to fixing small bugs.

And apparently all applications are created equal
Android does not differentiate between the phone's core applications and third-party applications. They can all be built to have equal access to a phone's capabilities providing users with a broad spectrum of applications and services. With devices built on the Android Platform, users will be able to fully tailor the phone to their interests. They can swap out the phone's homescreen, the style of the dialer, or any of the applications. They can even instruct their phones to use their favorite photo viewing application to handle the viewing of all photos.

More info here

The next Ubuntu Developers Summit to plan Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) is currently being held at the Hotel@MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts and you can participate. Check out the many ways:

VOIP
All the sessions are being broadcast over a VOIP connection, so fire up Ekiga or your favourite SIP client, get a login and join the discussion.

Collaborative editing with Gobby
All the specs while they are being talked about are being edited in Gobby, a collaborative editor. If you want to join in, grab the gobby package via your favourite package manager and join gobby.ubuntu.com.

IRC
As per usual, those who are at UDS tend to be on IRC, in the #uds-boston channel on the Freenode network.

Show up
Of course, if you can make it to Cambridge (the US one, not the UK one) , come by. Registration is free and the sessions are open to all. Just remember, we need your contribution, as this isn’t an event for spectators.

If you want more information and a rehashing of all this information, check out the UDS-Boston Participate wiki page.

The Ubuntu Mobile Guide  guide is the

result of an Ubuntu Documentation Team

Project called DocuMentors .

This initiative pairs an experienced with a

novice `documentor` in an attempt to

increase the scope of the Ubuntu

Documentation and lower the barriers to

community participation in the project.

Some highlights in this release:

Setting up the Development Environment and Creating Images

What is Hildon Desktop?

Anatomy of a Python Application in UME

Using Glade and Python to create an Application for Ubuntu Mobile

Porting Python Applications to Ubuntu Mobile

Porting C Applications to Ubuntu Mobile

The Gutsy release is coming closer and
this will be the final draft version of the
Guide.

New

+ updated the 'Setting up the Development
Environment and Creating Images' section
with info on fsets, 'Speeding Up
Image-Creator by using a local mirror server'
and 'Test the target image UI on the
Workstation'

+ added 'Porting Python Applications to
Ubuntu Mobile' section

+ added 'Porting C Applications to Ubuntu
Mobile'

+ added package dependency information
onto 'Using Glade and Python to create an
Application for Ubuntu Mobile'

Also there is now a 'ToDo' documentation
list on the working area
Any areas missing in the UME
documentation should be added to this
list.

I have added a couple of articles to the
UME Guide

The first, Porting A Python Application to UME
shows how to port an application (gPodder)
to Ubuntu Mobile. gPodder media aggregator
is a podcast receiver/catcher written in
Python utilizing PyGTK for its graphical
interface. gPodder is very lightweight and
doesn't have many dependencies so it is a
great introduction for anyone looking for a gentle
introduction on how to get *your* application
running on Ubuntu Mobile

The second, Porting A C Application to UME
shows how to port an application written in
C (liferea) to Ubuntu Mobile. Liferea is an
aggregator for online news feeds written in
C utilizing GTK for its graphical interface.
For this you should be familiar with or have
the desire to learn C programming, including
the 'auto' tools suite.

I have also been invited to the next
Ubuntu Developers Summit at the end of
October in Boston!

I honestly thought it was a wind up until
the tickets arrived yesterday. It will be a
shock going from the poverty of Manaus
to MIT but the chance to hang out and
hack with the Ubuntu Mobile guys has got
me completely over-excited.

Thanks a lot Canonical and Ubuntu. You
guys *ROCK*

This assumes you have the development environment set up as explained here