Finally the project that I’m working on at Nokia was shown to the world, very proud of this achievement in such difficult times for the people involved on the project. Congrats to everybody that believed and stay fighting with us.
May
7
Want to work in the coolest team at Nokia ? (mine of course 
)
MeeGo devices at Nokia is looking for a Linux expert that knows how to write C++ code, knowledge of Qt, Python and HTML 5 is a plus, check out this event for more details: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=105529266158916
Apr
11
This year the Maemo Community received 84 GSoC students applications (plus 7 ineligible), almost the double of last year. Thanks to all the students that applied for us and to everybody that helped on the GSoC initiative.
Now is time to review the proposals 
Mar
28
The Maemo community is looking for talented students to join us in Google Summer of Code 2010.
We already have a good pool of ideas, but new ideas are more than welcome, especially in the following areas:
* Location based apps;
* Context aware apps;
* Social apps clients;
* Mobile/embedded apps in general that can benefit a wide range of platforms (Maemo, MeeGo, etc…).
Following the merger of Moblin and Maemo, we’ll also accept ideas for new MeeGo project.
This year the students will received $5000 + gifts for each successful project, the application period will start tomorrow(March 29) and will end on April 9.
More informations about Maemo @ GSoC can be found here.
Follow the discussion here.
Mar
17
Want to help the Maemo Community ? Want to learn about our QA/testing process ? This call is for you.
Next Saturday(Mar 20) from 2pm onwards(UTC/GMT) we’ll host a testing marathon at #maemo-testing@Freenode, in order to make more awesome community applications available for the end users.
If you’re a developer, make sure your applications are in good shape before the testing marathon.
Here’s a small FAQ about the marathon:
What is a testing marathon ?
Basically is a ‘testing party’, where people get together to test software, report bugs, talk/send feedback to developers in order to improve our community applications.
Do I need to be a developer to take part of the marathon ?
No, even if you can’t judge all the criteria in the QA checklist, you’re more than welcome, every small help has big value for us.
Do I need to be in the irc channel during the entire marathon ?
No, you can join/leave at anytime, but it’s recommendable to be in the channel at the beginning of the marathon, if you need some help or have some doubts.
I can’t attend the marathon, can I help in some way ?
Of course, you can test and evaluate applications at any time. Please follow our community QA process and checklist and vote the packages under: http://maemo.org/packages/repository/qa/fremantle_extras-testing/
Still have doubts, want to discuss something ?
Join the discussion here.
Feb
18
After a successful participation in Google Summer of Code ’09, the Maemo Community intend to apply this year again, in order to have a strong proposal we need everybody’s help. We are currently looking for project ideas, mentors and backup mentors.
Do have a killer idea for a Maemo application ? Add it here: http://wiki.maemo.org/GSoC_2010/Project_ideas
If you want to help as a mentor or co-mentor, read this instructions: http://wiki.maemo.org/GSoC_2010/Mentors
For this year, we intend to concentrate the students effort around end-user applications, but improvements to other projects under the Maemo umbrella are also acceptable and welcome.
Follow the discussion here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=535538
Feb
1
As part of the Extras Q&A process, the Maemo Community created a Testing Squad, in order to kick start the the testing process and provide better software for the Maemo users.
We’re correctly looking for some more testers, before start refining the Q&A processes, so if you like to test new shiny apps from our community developers, feel free to join the team, if you don’t feel ready or without enough skills for this task, you still can keep following the group activities and doing some testing in the easier areas.
Initial announcement and discussion: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=42055
Jan
10
For those that didn’t attended my presentation at the Maemo Summit (videos are still MIA 
), I added some new features in BlueMaemo for Maemo5, one of these feature is the ability to send events using the accelerometer motion, is still in a very early stage, but as you can see in the video below, you can already play simple games.
BlueMaemo needs a lot of love before entering Maemo Extras, but unfortunately this month I don’t have plans for more improvements, I’ve a lot of other things to do and also I’ve to start job hunting (Know a position for a talented SW devel ? 
), but I appreciate suggestions for improvements and bug reports. Big thanks for all alpha testers that helped a lot so far.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOTpmRKHTLY
If you want to test the alpha version of BlueMaemo, you can grab it in the Extras-devel repository, please remember that the software in that repository is not intended for end users, before enable this repository, read this post.
The accelerometer control is enabled via the button “one” and “two”(experimental air mouse) in the gamepad profile. More instructions here.
