#maemo

Event started... Pretty even distribution of people from the two communities

Fremantle packaging session in the "scrollBAR". Bunch of SDK people from Nokia here, as well as Maemo's webmaster and debmaster

See also mozmae hashtag on twitter

We're looking with @xfade to add Google Rich Snippets microformats to Maemo Downloads.

Some ideas how extensions could fit their UI into Fennec: action buttons in bottom of the screen ("add to digg"), support 'peeking' (show if there is something new in tab list), tap-and-hold for actions on an item

Good tutorial about Firefox extension development from Robert Nyman. Thinking of some #midgard admin tools done this way.

Interesting: I'm seeing more netbooks than MacBooks in the audience

Continuation of the extension tutorial, discussing how to adapt FF extensions to Fennec. Using info.name to adapt JS code to the different UI DOM and so forth

I got an idea for a new extension: "CMS tool", which tries to sniff what CMS a site is running, and depending on that provides some contextual actions. A bit like Yulup but more generic and less comprehensive

Interesting demo of GeoGuide, a Fennec add-on that provides an automatic travel guide for your current location. I chatted briefly with the author about making the recommendations smarter through attention profiling.

Now that extensions and websites can detect your current location such applications can easily be implemented fully in the browser space.

Speculation about how the web is surpassing native application toolkits. Most users already 'just use the browser'. Good bye Gtk and Qt?

This fits well with the utility computing view argued for in The Big Switch, which I've been reading on this trip, as well as our Midgard App Builder vision.

Nokia is learning more about the process of open source. While year or two ago, maemo were the odd guys. But now there is the LGPLd Qt, Symbian Foundation...

When more and more application (and data) are pushed "to the cloud" operating systems themself became much less important...

Demos of Fremantle Stars: OSM2Go seems really cool for easy on-site OpenStreetMapping. Project creation would need an easy "I want to edit the map here" option.

Discussed briefly the possibility of creating aviation maps from OSM data.

"It is much easier to develop applications for Canola than the maemo platform"

Canola is a Python-based MVC user interface that uses the Edje graphical toolkit

Hearing about Mer - the project for spreading maemo for larger range of devices and aligning it closer to mainstream Linux distributions. Ubuntu base etc.

Mer social contract: avoid "tivoization" to allow OS upgrades of devices, disallow closed-source kernel modules

Preparatory work for a package administration UI for #maemo with @xfade