The Embedded Linux Conference 2009 is over. Small but technical conference in nice San Francisco Japantown. I will be there also participationg in Linux Foundation Collaborations summit listening to presentations.

In Tuesday evening we had a demo session where I was running maemo on Beagleboad. It looks like Beagleboard is going to be popular hacker toy. I wrote in my Hotel room small demo how to use Qt for animation to make picture carousel, it just took couple of hours and few dozens of lines of code. I run code in both Scratchbox and Beagleboard but it was possible to demonstrate actual compositing window manager feture only in Beagleboard. 

The Animated UI technologies in maeemo 5 Fremantle can be found here animated_ui_elc_2009.pdf OpenGL-ES2.0 looks like being the thing that raises more and more questons among the developers. Even if OpenGL is not new any more, many developers are still using OpenGL 1.0 style API's and now that the OpenGL-ES2.0 forces to use programable shaders, it is big change. Writing animated UI looks also being an area where a lot of new technology development happens. Now is the time for new ideas and lot of paralel development happens at the same area. Then later comes time for convergence .

The Maemo 5 Fremantle presentation is here fremantle_elc_2009.pdf.

Modified 9.4.2009 After demo someones asked source of the simple Qt animation demo i had running in beaglboard. There is source gt4.tgz, feel free to look and try it.