Task:2010 Agenda

Help defining the maemo.org 2010 Agenda. This is taken to mean the vision the community has for the state of maemo in 2010.

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Hardware requests are entirely out-of-scope and will be removed by community members trying to keep this page focused and on-topic. Software requests which would be trivial for a third party to provide—or are already on the roadmap—are out-of-scope and will be removed by community members trying to keep this page focused and on-topic.

maemo development process

Openness, openness, openness

• Core libraries developed in the open by Nokia employees, and maemo.org community contributors.
• Non-Nokia specification writing and approval, worked on by Nokia employees and maemo.org community contributors; discussed on public mailing lists.
• The ability to build a complete, flashable image by maemo.org community for beta testing of open components in development. (May be less necessary in an SSU-based world: TBC)
• The ability to strip a maemo-based OS down to its base and build it up again differently (for example, KDE and no Hildon).
  • By 2010, installing completely different UIs should be achievable through the Application Manager.

maemo developer resources

• Better localization guidelines for new and existing Developers.
• Development Framework. ???
• Documentation System. (Help system???)
• Better GPS resources. (GeoClue???)
• Development Tools and Utilities for Linux, OS X and Windows.
• Better modern native languages support - like Vala and D. && how to build a hello world app in C++/Vala in 10 minute (no more!)

Ship high level building blocks

• Think of media server, VoIP, contact lists, camera, GPS localization. Currently developers only have the low level API's, while mostly they just want a widget that displays the mentioned data and listen to user interaction signal or device signals. This also makes these functionalities look the same in all applications using them

End-user software wishlist

Software requests are really out-of-scope and not relevant to this brainstorming session (or able to be provided by third party developers without maemo.org involvement); however, they are recorded here so they do not get duplicated:

• A PIM system that can be tied into by developers, to provide PC synchronization etc.
  • A equivalent to telepathy for calendar and contact list: A well integrated framework.
• Telepathy:
  • Better video call support
• Global sync-software
• Office suite. (???)
• Unionfs support built into the kernel (So users don't have to flash initfs and boot from SD, or make symlinks gone wild, just to install a few extra apps)
• a2dp
• Better support for right-to-left languages, such as Arabic, and Hebrew.