MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 7 Jan 2013
Front Page Hildon Foundation open letter and Jolla's response Last week, the Hildon Foundation sent an open letter to Jolla requesting cooperation and financial assistance with maemo.org: “We would welcome discussion about a relationship between our organizations… If anything, we would like to form a friendship. If Jolla would be willing to become a sponsor and aid us in promoting the open source software aspects of Jolla and Sailfish — or, possibly even foot the bill — we would offer valuable community support to Jolla. In fact, we see a huge possibility of the Hildon Foundation becoming a part of the Jolla ecosystem or Sailfish Alliance itself.” Jolla replied in comments, “We can talk on a regular basis and we can form a friendship
Happy New Year from the Hildon Foundation — and future years to come for the Maemo Community!
Happy New Year Maemo Community! As we move into the new year, we’re also faced with a very new phase of life — that is, complete control of the maemo.org infrastructure, meaning community governance of the Maemo Community and everything that it implies (community servers and software repositories, various maemo-related software and technology, the talk.maemo.org forum and wiki, etc.). It’s a lot to fathom, but we are certain that if any community can handle it, this one can. Fundraising Likewise, most of you know that the new changes require that we, as a community, foot the bill for all of these new responsibilities
Bypassing Tracker’s file system miner, for example for MTP daemons
Recapping from my last blog article ; I worked a bit on this concept during the weekend. When a program is responsible for delivery of a file to the file system that program knows precisely when the rename syscall, completing the file transfer transaction, takes place. An example of such a program is an MTP daemon.
The New Hildon Foundation Website
We’d like to take a minute to unveil the new Hildon Foundation website: http://hildonfoundation.org As you’ll see, there is a fairly easy way to donate to the Hildon Foundation and the Maemo Community: http://hildonfoundation.org/support/ This is the same method that’s being used here on tmo : http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1303767
MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 3 Dec 2012
Front Page Nokia supporting Hildon Foundation in ecosystem infrastructure move The Hildon Foundation Board made a surprising and welcome announcement last week, notifying the community that Nokia has offered to cover the costs of migration for maemo.org: “In a conference held by Nokia, Nemein and the Hildon Foundation, Nokia has offered to help economically in the process of migration. The details for starting the migration are under discussion
QEMU and open hardware: SPEC and FMC TDC
Working with open hardware Some weeks ago at LinuxCon EU in Barcelona I talked about how to use QEMU to improve the reliability of device drivers. At Igalia we have been using this for some projects.
MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 26 Nov 2012
Front Page Jolla reveal strategy, UI and Qt Creator-based SDK at Slush 2012 Jolla is once again foremost in the minds of many mobile OS enthusiasts and open-source aficionados with more information being revealed regarding their strategy and future. The launch of their official website and a slick video partway between a teaser and a product video give a definite sense of progress and should inspire confidence in everyone holding their breath for a product launch.
Technical Contributor Coordinator at the Wikimedia Foundation
Today Last week I finally joined the Wikimedia Foundation , with my US visa renewed and all the bureaucratic requirements in place. I work at the Platform Engineering team, reporting to Sumana Harihareswara and having other (remote) neighbors like Guillaume Paumier , Chris McMachon and Andre Klapper (of GNOME & Maemo/MeeGo fame, what a coincidence!). I feel happy.
New Council Introduction and 2012-11-16 Council Meeting Minutes
Hello all, First, greetings to everyone from your new Council members. As you all already might know, on the council for this term are: Alexander Kozhevnikov / Mentalist Traceur Iván Gálvez Junquera / ivgalvez Joerg Reisenweber / joerg_rw Michael Demetriou / qwazix Niel Nielsen / nieldk We look forward to serving you for the duration of our term.
Mae-Fi for MeeGo Harmattan
I have been working on a new application for the Nokia N9 and N950, which I call “Mae-Fi”.