LinuxTag 2008

The maemo track of LinuxTag 2008 happened on Thursday 29th May 2008 in Berlin, Germany.

Four hours of sessions dedicated to maemo were planned. Each session consisted of 3 short presentations of 10-15 mins to kick off the discussion on each topic.

maemo community update

Where are we & questions and comments...

* Quim Gil - Opening & the Nokia perspective (audio is available)
* Gary Birkett aka lcuk - A new developer's perspective on maemo
* Niels Breet aka X-Fade - A foot in each side

Cool maemo apps

Some demos + meet the developers

* Urho Konttori - UKMP
* Alberto Garcia - Vagalume
* Florian Boor - GPE

Cool platform hacks

A couple of demos + meet the developers

* Kees Jongenburger - Mamona & Open Embedded approach
* Armin Sauerbier aka pupnik - Emulators anywhere
* Kate Alhola - USB & cables do wonders

maemo.org - what next?

Mid term: What Nokia should do + What the community could do

* Marius Gedminas
* Simon Pickering aka lardman. Presentation here
* Sebastian Mancke

The session was on Thursday afternoon. Afterwards, a rgoup of about 20 people retired to the Cafe am Neuen See for huge pizzas and beers.

Attendees

• Quim Gil
• Niels Breet
• Manrique (not 100% sure)
• Sebastian Mancke
• Florian Boor
• Nick Loeve
• John Littler
• Dave Neary
• Uwe Kaminski
• Alberto Garcia
• Marcell Lengyel
• Ricardo Ribalda

Fall-out

• Quim announced that the first maemo summit would be taking place on September 19th, after OSiM World (also held in Berlin).
• He also announced the start of the 100 days and Maemo in 2010 brainstorming initiatives, to plan the future of maemo.org with input from the community.