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Maemo Qt and Maemo Summit 2009

Maemo summit in Amsterdam 9..11.10.2009 colelcted nearly 400 maemo developers. Qt was clearly one of main themes as addition to N900 and Maemo 5/Fremantle and some advance information about Maemo 6 Harmattan. There was several presentations about Qt, i had presentation with...

Some thoughs about maemo animated UI technologies

After having several questions and face to face discussions in Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit I think that I should tell to wider audience what I had in my mind. I had a presentation titled Animated UI technologies in maeemo 5 " animated_ui_elc_2009.pdf " and I have...

Maemo presentations in ELC

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 in Embedded Linux conference

I have two maemo related presentations in Embedded Linux Conference in San Francisco . Monday 11:00 i have "Animated UI technologies in maemo 5" where i tell more about new UI enabling technologies like OpenGL-ES2.0, Clutter and Qt .Tuesday 2:30 pm i have "Maemo 5 mobileLinux...

Developing accelerated graphics with Maemo 5 Fremantle

Nokia just announced today alpha version of Maemo 5 ( Fremantle ) SDK. This is the first maemo SDK version with accelerated OpenGL-ES2 graphics support. There are both, kernel drivers and user mode OpenGL-ES2 libraries included. You can use OpenGL-ES2 directly using C API...

Qt4.5 for maemo 5 fremantle SDK

We announce together with Maemo 5 fremantle SDK alpha Qt4.5 for Fremantle. Qt release is based on Qt4.5 release candidate 1. In this version we have all major functionality of Qt including OpenGL-ES2, Webkit with and Mysql support.We have maemo Hildon...

Google Gadgets for maemo

I was couple of weeks ago in Gnome Asia conference and there was interesting presentation about Google Gadgets for Linux by James Su from Google . The google gadgets are javascript widgets that are loaded to your desktop and then they can run offline. At...

Maemo summit 2008

Maemo summit 2008 was great success, good "hacker spirit" conference in plce that exactly fits to this, c-base in Berlin. Karoliina made exellent video composition about maemo spirit 2008. If you like to see video in better quality,...

Akademy 2008 Embedded day

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...

Akademy 2008 KDE contributors conference

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...

Nokia gives out free N810 devices to developers in Akademy 2008

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...

maemo in Akademy 2008

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...

Some cool pick-ups from LinuxTag

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...

Maemo future roadmap at LinuxTag

In LinuxTag Nokia released some new facts about future of maemo. After the soon to be released Diablo release we are going to have releases with codenames Fremantle and Harmattan. You can find full release in Quim Gil's slide set . The this...

Come to meet us in OSIM San Francisco

I will be participating Open Source in Mobile USA conference in San Francisco. If you are maemo developer or like to to be one, just come and chat with us. If you have any technical issues in your mind or you like to talk how Forum Nokia can help you developing maemo...