Tuesday was great day for all of those that got approved to get a N810 developer device. There was long queue after my presentation waiting for devices. Now it is then time to start happy hacking wth N810. I hope to see lot of Qt and KDE applications for maemo in garage soon.

My presentation "developing applications for maemo platform" can be found from maemo_and_sdk_for_qt.pdf. I hope that it gives necessary information to these developers that are already familiar with linux and Qt to start developing applications for maemo.

There is now also video of this presentation online in Vimeo. Credits to Karoliina about editing and music.

I apologize to Akademy participants that the aggregation to planet.maemo.org has been broken due operator moving server to new location.

Akademy 2008 KDE contributors conference part is over and i had there presentation "Qt on maemo" with Antonio Aloisio you can download pdf from maemo_qt.pdf If you like to see presentation as video, look here

There was also many other very interesting presentatios. Some of my favourities was QtWebkit by Simon Hausmann, How Graphics View Works by Andreas Aardal Hanssen andGallium3D - Graphics Done Right. It as also nice to see that porting Qt/KDE applications to maemo is going with good speed. Antonio has Arora webkit based browser running with maemo Qt port, the KDE Plasma has been running in maemo a while.

The embedded and mobile conference day is coming tomorrow, Tuesday I am starting at 9.00 with presentation Developing applications for the Maemo platform. In this presentation I will be handling how to develop Qt applications for maemo platform. After my presentation we are starting to give developer devices to the lucky ones succeeded to become eligible to get one.

In my previous blog entry I told that in addition to the first 100 that register to this maemo presentation will get free device, we have devices to be given out for good and interesting open source projects. The KDE board will decide who will get a devices. I have tried to pass requests that I have got via email to the KDE board. If someone still likes to get a device tomorrow but the name is not in anybody's list, please contact directly the KDE board to apply for a device.

As you may be aware already, the first 100 developers that register to "Developing for Maemo - Talk and Workshops" will be given free Nokia N810 Internet tablet from Nokia.

If you miss the registration and don't fit to the first 100, no problem, we have reserved lots of devices for selected projects. If you have a good project, please describe your project and apply for device from the KDE board or Nokia representatives.

And there is lots of interesting Maemo and Nokia content in Akademy, for example:

Saturday:

13:45 - 14:30 Keynote
Deepening KDE and Qt collaboration
Sebastian Nyström (Nokia)

15:00 - 15:30 Qt on Maemo
Kate Alhola (Nokia), Antonio Aloiso (Nokia)

Tuesday:

 09:00 - 10:00 Developing applications for the maemo platform

Kate Alhola (Nokia), Antonio Aloiso (Nokia)

We also have a meeting place and Maemo open lab and we have technical people from Nokia present. Please come to talk with us.

So, there are lots of good reasons to attend Akademy 2008. See you there!