I’m proud to announce that the Maemo community is one of 150 organization out of 395 accepted in this year Google Summer of Code 
I would like to thank the Maemo mentors and backup mentors and everybody that helped with ideas, reviews and other small things.
The Maemo ideas list still’s open, you can give new ideas for possible Maemo GSoC projects in the next couple of weeks.
Let’s hope a great Summer of Code for the Maemo community
A lot of people in the Maemo community asked for a Maemo 5 video showing the new Maemo UI, so here is one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiNF4C1p030
The application manager doesn’t work for me, and the Fremantle extras-devel repository doesn’t list the available packages trough the web, so I only showed in the video the apps that I know that are already in the repository.
More information about Maemo5 Alpha can be found here
The deadline for submit organization applications for Google Summer of Code is approaching, so is time to move on. We already have a good number of possible mentors, but will be awesome if a few more appear, it will increase the chances of the Maemo community be chosen as a mentoring organization and also can increase the number of projects assigned to the Maemo community. So if you like Maemo and GSoC, go read this page and send some feedback for us in the next couple of days.
We also want more possible project ideas, some criticism to the current ideas will be welcomed too
More information about Maemo@GSoC can be found here.
The second release of BlueMaemo is out now and for the first time available on the maemo extras repository .
This release features the much requested reconnection feature, among others small fixes/improvements.
Here is a small changelog:
* Added ability to map the space key in the profiles;
* Added method to change bluetooth adapter mode;
* N810 Hardware keyboard support while in mouse profile;
* Major code refactoring - Separated all profiles;
* Added reconnect functionality;
* Added auto-connect functionality (auto-connect BlueMaemo to a device on startup, without user intervention).
Many thanks for everybody that reported bugs, made suggestions and filled features requests, especially for Qwerty12 (Faheem Pervez) and Mgedmin (Marius Gedminas) for the packaging advices and tips.
BlueMaemo V0.2 is available here.
I found this project yesterday on IRC and I think it deserves some publicity .
“QTablet is a fully Qt and QGraphicsView based application framework which main target is internet tablets such as N810. It provides QLauncer for launching applications, Home screen called the Wall and Pager for changing between two virtual desktops and placeholders for minimized application. QTablet uses also Qt Animation Framework for doing transitions between Wall, QLauncher and Pager. ”
Check out the video, it features virtual desktops, cool animations (without openGL :)) and is also possible to launch hildon apps inside the QT framework. At the moment the installation isn’t straightforward, but deserves a try at lest .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAwmW6_G0TM
More info at the QTablet website.
The Maemo community is organizing a dinner during Fosdem (probably Saturday night), if you have plans to attend Fosdem conference, feel free to add your name to the attendees table, and let us know if your are interested in the Maemo dinner and what are your prefered night(s).
We also need some help of people from Brussels or nearby, in order to find a central place with fair prices to host the Maemo dinner, suggestions ?? All the help is appreciated :) .
Mozilla just announced the release of Fennec alpha 2 for the N810, you can found the release notes and how to install this browser in your tablet here.
After a few tests it seems a little bit faster that the first Fennec release, but it still a little bit far from the MicroB performance in my opinion.
Fennec Alpha 2 Overview from Madhava Enros on Vimeo.
A few days ago I tried to connect my n810 to my University wifi network (WPA-TKIP-EAP-PEAP-MASCHAPv2), but after following the Linux tutorial for the eduroam network, the device discovered the network, but can’t connect to it.
After a few tests I discovered a way to get my table connected to the eduroam networks.
Here is a little tutorial for the OS2008 with all system updates:
First you have to install a certificate for the network, go to Settings -> Control panel -> Certificate manager and click in import. My university provide two different certificates (.pem and .cer) only the .cer works in maemo.
After the certificate is correctly installed, go to Connectivity -> Connections and create a new network, following the steps below.
Fennec Alpha Walkthrough from Madhava Enros on Vimeo.
http://vimeo.com/1981300?pg=embed&sec=1981300
I already have it on my n810, very interesting piece of software, a little bit buggy right now, but deserve a try
The first release of BlueMaemo is now available on garage.maemo. I’m very happy with all the community feedback and support, thanks to all the guys that sent me emails and made blog posts about BlueMaemo.
Download instructions and other information can be found here.
