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State of Maemo, Q1 2011 from the Community Council
The Maemo community's fifth council will soon be stepping down and the sixth (for March – September 2011) will be elected. Tim Samoff, chair of the outgoing Maemo Community Council, has started wrapping up the current term whilst summarising the opportunities and challenges facing the Maemo community: “In conclusion, the Council would like to thank you, the Maemo Community, developers, end-users, and Nokia employees alike, for helping to make this a fun ride. Our hope is that the ride isn’t over yet, but it’s up to us to begin to think about providing the fuel. Many exciting developments are still in store for Maemo, so lets not sit back and wait for a supposed end. There are already many dedicated community members who have made the Maemo Community a success. If you’ve never contributed before, think about how you can help: report bugs, edit the wiki, and take part in the Talk forums… Likewise, we’re quickly approaching the next Community Council elections, so please consider your role in Maemo and how you might contribute in a more (or less) “official” role (yes, many of us still think the Council is an integral component to sustaining the Maemo Community). Our community is not ready to die, so be one of the people who provide life to an organism that thrives on personal involvement.” The road ahead is likely to be a tough one for users of open mobile devices, as the alternative offerings available in the market to Maemo and MeeGo are limited (or nonexistent). The Nokia announcement, far from obsoleting maemo.org and the Maemo Community, has, perhaps, greatly increased both its current and future importance. A large number of N900 owners, lacking reasonable alternatives, are likely to rely on their existing device for a much longer period of time and maemo.org will need to be there to support them.
Alpha release of Qt for Android
In an announcement which may be as important to the future of Qt as the one from Stephen Elop, BogDan Vatra has released a user-, and developer-, friendly (albeit buggy) implementation of Qt for Android: “I had a dream that one day, I'll be able to deploy existing Qt software on any Android platform. I had a dream that one day, all Qt applications will use system wide shared Qt libraries. I had a dream that one day, all Qt applications once compiled and deployed to one android platform, will run on any other newer android platform and will last for years without any recompilation. I had a dream that one day, I'll be able to create, manage, compile”
In this edition (Download)…
- Front Page
- State of Maemo, Q1 2011 from the Community Council
- Alpha release of Qt for Android
- Applications
- Putting last.fm stats on N900 lock screen
- Development
- Hildon UI on MeeGo core
- Core MeeGo OBS is now open for anonymous read-access
- Qt: “superior technology”
- How to build a “cover flow” widget in QML
- Community
- Nokia MeeGo community communication thread
- Nokia’s Quim Gil doesn’t expect maemo.org funding to be immediately affected
- Community: Proposal for “
, a MeeGo R&D project” branding
- Devices
- Hands on with the ExoPC running Intel’s MeeGo Tablet UX
- In the Wild
- Angry Birds now on MeeGo
- Nokia CTO, Rich Green, talks about the future of MeeGo & Qt
- Analysis of Nokia’s fortunes (or lack thereof) following the Elopocalypse
- More insight into Alien Dalvik, allowing Android apps to run on Maemo
- Announcements
- QuickFlickr now available for Maemo and N900
- gPodder bug fixes in latest release
- KhtEditor 0.0.17 now available
