Nokia will have strong participation in aKademy 2008. Nokia is the platinum sponsor for the event. We have had a strong particiarion in GTK/Gnome community and now we would like to create similar position in Qt/KDE Open Source community and catalyst many Opeopen Source Qt projects for our Internet tablets. There will be multiple maemo related presentations. Kate Alhola and Antonio Aloiso will have a presentation "Adapting Qt for maemo hildon". We try arrange also other presentations like how to develop Qt applications to devices running maemo and how to design mobile UI to Qt/KDE applications, maemo devroom/workshop etc. If you have good ideas or have already made Qt applications for internet tablets, please let us know.

The aKademy will be also a launch event for maemo/hildon Qt port. The port is developed in open source fashion. You can download current snapshot from qt4 maemo garage page.

The Akademy will be a good place to meet maemo/Qt/KDE developers and to start developing your application for internet tablets.

Nokia will be also hiring Qt specialists, please look http://www.nokia.com/imaginemaemo or contact Jakub Pavelek or Carlos Guerreiro to addresses which are in format forename.surnane@nokia.com.

FreeDroidz

It is one month since LinuxTag but i like to share some cool favourities from there. The LinuxTag was great showplace for many open source projects. In Tarent booth there was demo for Freedroidz project . The Freedroidz are Lego Mindstorm based robots that can be controlled with Nokia Internet tablet with Jalimo Java package. It shows how tablets can find many new innovative areas of use. It looks like tohaving lot of interesting fun to give for both adults and children. 

LinuxMCE

Other interesting application running in maemo internet tablet was LinuxMCE . You can find client for maemo from pluto-nokia pages from garage  The combines control of the media, home automation and even ip telephony together. You can use your tablet to be general remote control device to control  our Home Theatre, lights, heating or even watch security camera. If you like make very cool StarTrek style house, you can attach some tablets as wall control units in to the rooms. That's not at all so insane idea if you compare prices of tablets to the many home automation systems. I will tell more when i got my system running.

BeagleBoard

The Beagleboard  is another cool device. It is small TI Omap3 based board, running full Linux and using just milli wats to couple of wats power. That's magnitudes less than any PC uses. The Beagleboard CPU belongs in same TI Omap family than our Internet Tablet CPU  so you should be able to use maemo SDK with it. I even saw picture that someone already hacked hildon desktop running on it. I have not yet been able to try but hopefully soon. It is easy to find lot of applications to this small energy efficient embedded board.

Maemo with QEMU

If you like to run all maemo, not only user mode applications unde QEMU, there is good instruntions Marcin Juszkiewicz blog