Mozilla Maemo Danish Weekend/Developer Challenge

The developer challenge is about who can create or port the most awesome add-on for Fennec. There are a couple of useful links here and here.

Criteria

Awesomeness!

Prize

Paid trip and lodging to the Maemo Summit in Amsterdam, October 9-11, 2009 (max 3 persons)

Deadline/Submission

Add a link to your submission below before 3 PM Sunday afternoon and we will have a session at 4 PM announcing the winner and demoing a few of the add-ons.

Fennec Desktop Builds

• Mac OS X
• Windows (coming)
• Linux

Ideas

Below is a list of ideas for add-ons. Feel free to add more.

• Geolocation
  • What's Near Me
  • ATM Finder
• Tab Thumbnail Badging
  • Micro Summaries
• Ad Block+
• Twitter Clients
• Themes
• Plugins
• Widget (iGoogle, Yahoo, W3C)
• Flickr (photo) Viewer (flickable full-screen photo viewer)
• Search Plugins
• Social Networking
• Notifications
• D-Bus Fennec Alerts

Jury

• Brian King, mozdev.org
• Quim Gil, Maemo SW
• Kees Jongenburger, maemo.org Council
• Madhava Enros, Mozilla
• Stuart Parmenter, Mozilla
• Christian Sejersen, Mozilla

Submissions

Please provide a link to the add-on, your names (up to 3 people), contact information and a two sentence summary of you add-on.

Fabrice Desré (fabrice.desre@gmail.com)

• GeoGuide (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12118) : an add-on that shows different kinds of information near you, using the geolocation API. It allows to popuplate a map with only what you're interested in (pictures, events, wikipedia articles...)

• GraffiTwit (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12191) : aa Twitter client with a unique feature : instead of writing text messages, you can now use a Canvas based drawing board to send sketches, and of course view them when other twitterers send you sketches.

David Greaves (lbt)

• Qt/Shopper : Add touchable scroll to the Qt framework - with fremantle bounce; Means that any Qt developer gets fingerscroll for free ... demonstration through re-orientable shopping list application (installed on #7)... lbt

Thomas Perl (thp)

• gPodder Podcast Client for Fremantle (here), Diablo (here), Chinook (here) and Mer (screenshots): An application for downloading audio and video podcasts to Maemo devices. Uses the new Hildon AppMenu and PannableArea on Fremantle.

liqbase packages for fremantle

Gary Birkett Kees J Jeremiah

liqbase package works on new device

example run command ./vworld -showwidget liqrecentusers

Multi User Map (Social Geolocation)

• Adam Harwell aharwell at trinity dot edu
• John Bloom - johnxx at gmail dot com

• Users run an updater statusbar-plugin or background daemon that uploads their GPS location, name, a custom image, and their current "status" (custom message) to a central database at some interval, and can run a map application (or possibly a maemo-mapper modification/plugin) that pulls all of the entries from the database and plots them as "moving POIs" to facilitate groups (especially at events like this hackfest or a summit) meeting and exploring. With the constant connectivity of Maemo5, GPS and a decent camera, users would also be able to add custom POIs on the fly and they would be distributed to everyone, for instance taking a picture of a restaurant, set the name to "Bob's Cafe", the comment to "meetup at 6pm!", and everyone has the info! No more wandering around confusedly looking for a bar. :)

• Partial code for statusbar plugin:
• Rough GUI Mockup for the viewer app:
• Example pull of data from the database (uses XML): http://flux.myvnc.com/get_poi.php
• XML Geolocation spec from Jabber: http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0080.html#format