Jolla to Launch Kickstarter Funding Campaign?
MeeGo spinoff Jolla has not yet ruled out crowdfunding project to raise capital.
The Dreams of the MeeGo Diaspora
Much has been written about the emerging Post-PC era, about the new possibilities it brings, and the limitations it imposes on developer creativity. For a while I’ve been planning to record my own experiences of the mobile revolution through the lense of the Maemo mobile Linux ecosystem
MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 28 May 2012
Front Page maemo.org and Nokia 770 turn seven On May 25, 2005, Nokia announced Maemo, the Nokia 770 and maemo.org went live. Ferenc Szekely highlighted the go-live of the community on the community's mailing list. At the time of the launch, GSMArena wrote: “Today Nokia announced the new Linux based Internet Tablet product category, the first device in this category is Nokia 770
MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 28 May 2012
Front Page maemo.org and Nokia 770 turn seven On May 25, 2005, Nokia announced Maemo, the Nokia 770 and maemo.org went live. Ferenc Szekely highlighted the go-live of the community on the community's mailing list.
MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 21 May 2012
Front Page Despite additional timing difficulties Maemo Community Council election is now running The seven candidates in the Maemo Community Council election are now after your votes. Voting runs until May 23nd 2012, 23:59 UTC. If you have not received your voting tokens, but think you should be eligible, contact Niels Breet .
maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2012.18
A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2012-04-23 through 2012-04-29 As of 2012-04-30 Extras contains: total items 2855 total open items 928 open bugs 516 critical/blocker 41 “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 6 “crash” 1 “patch” 5 reopened 7 unconfirmed 307 open enhancements 412 “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 0 “patch” 6 reopened 1 unconfirmed 179 Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes (unchanged for 7 weeks): (7%) 7334 [FM Radio] audio disappear using other device functions(connecting-disconnecting wi-fi,hspa) (5%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (4%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (4%) 11031 [PyMaemo] python-all depending on specific python version breaks updating python modules (4%) 11842 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] RDesktop halt on connection screen (3%) 6847 [gPodder] gPodder does not attempt to connect to internet if no ambient connection (2%) 7505 [Mauku] Claims to be free, but ships no license and says ‘You are NOT allowed to modify or redistribute the source code.’ (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (2%) 7500 [BlueMaemo] Hardware keyboard doesn’t work in Maemo5 (2%) 7938 [BlueMaemo] Connection dies immediately on Mac OS X 10.4.11 Please visit Bugzilla to vote. Registration is easy and free
maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2012.17
A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2012-04-16 through 2012-04-22 As of 2012-04-23 Extras contains: total items 2855 ( 3) total open items 928 ( 2) open bugs 516 ( 2) critical/blocker 41 ( 1) “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 6 “crash” 1 “patch” 5 reopened 7 unconfirmed 307 ( 1) open enhancements 412 “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 0 “patch” 6 reopened 1 unconfirmed 179 Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes (unchanged for 6 weeks): (7%) 7334 [FM Radio] audio disappear using other device functions(connecting-disconnecting wi-fi,hspa) (5%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (4%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (4%) 11031 [PyMaemo] python-all depending on specific python version breaks updating python modules (4%) 11842 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] RDesktop halt on connection screen (3%) 6847 [gPodder] gPodder does not attempt to connect to internet if no ambient connection (2%) 7505 [Mauku] Claims to be free, but ships no license and says ‘You are NOT allowed to modify or redistribute the source code.’ (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (2%) 7500 [BlueMaemo] Hardware keyboard doesn’t work in Maemo5 (2%) 7938 [BlueMaemo] Connection dies immediately on Mac OS X 10.4.11 Please visit Bugzilla to vote. Registration is easy and free. Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes : (6%) 8224 [Hermes] Support for getting orkut contact details with Hermes (5%) 5453 [Hermes] Add google as a source for contact information (feature request) (5%) 7738 [FM Radio] Scan and auto-preset feature (4%) 5823 [Personal GPRS Monitor] programmable auto-reset (4%) 11976 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] viewing sms conversations in portrait mode without horizontal scrolling (patch) (4%) 5045 [Conboy] Add undo and redo (4%) 5452 [Hermes] Don’t overwrite pre-existing contact info (3%) 6383 [PasswordSafe] Add support for V3 Format (2%) 5018 [StockThis] Create a Desktop widget to display portfolio (2%) 7374 [FM Radio] Record FM radio to file Please visit Bugzilla to vote
Aura
In the last weeks Miguel , Calvaris and myself, developed an application for the N9/N950 mobile phone and we called it Aura . Basically it uses the device’s camera (either the main one or the frontal one) for video recording, as a normal camera application, but also it exposes a set of effects that can be applied, in real time, to the video stream. For example, here is a video using the historical effect: Aura is inspired in the Gnome application, Cheese , and it uses many of the effects available in Gnome Video Effects .
maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2012.15
A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2012-04-02 through 2012-04-08 As of 2012-04-09 Extras contains: total items 2849 ( 5) total open items 928 ( 
open bugs 516 ( 6) critical/blocker 42 ( 2) “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 6 “crash” 1 “patch” 5 ( 3) reopened 7 unconfirmed 306 open enhancements 412 ( 2) “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 0 “patch” 6 reopened 2 unconfirmed 179 ( 1) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes (unchanged for 4 weeks): (7%) 7334 [FM Radio] audio disappear using other device functions(connecting-disconnecting wi-fi,hspa) (5%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (4%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (4%) 11031 [PyMaemo] python-all depending on specific python version breaks updating python modules (4%) 11842 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] RDesktop halt on connection screen (3%) 6847 [gPodder] gPodder does not attempt to connect to internet if no ambient connection (2%) 7505 [Mauku] Claims to be free, but ships no license and says ‘You are NOT allowed to modify or redistribute the source code.’ (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (2%) 7500 [BlueMaemo] Hardware keyboard doesn’t work in Maemo5 (2%) 7938 [BlueMaemo] Connection dies immediately on Mac OS X 10.4.11 Please visit Bugzilla to vote. Registration is easy and free
maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2012.14
A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2012-03-26 through 2012-04-01 As of 2012-04-02 Extras contains: total items 2844 ( 3) total open items 936 ( 1) open bugs 522 ( 3) critical/blocker 44 “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 6 “crash” 1 “patch” 8 reopened 7 unconfirmed 306 ( 1) open enhancements 414 ( 2) “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 0 ( 4) “patch” 6 reopened 2 unconfirmed 180 ( 2) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes : (7%) 7334 [FM Radio] audio disappear using other device functions(connecting-disconnecting wi-fi,hspa) (5%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (4%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (4%) 11031 [PyMaemo] python-all depending on specific python version breaks updating python modules (4%) 11842 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] RDesktop halt on connection screen (3%) 6847 [gPodder] gPodder does not attempt to connect to internet if no ambient connection (2%) 7505 [Mauku] Claims to be free, but ships no license and says ‘You are NOT allowed to modify or redistribute the source code.’ (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (2%) 7500 [BlueMaemo] Hardware keyboard doesn’t work in Maemo5 (2%) 7938 [BlueMaemo] Connection dies immediately on Mac OS X 10.4.11 Please visit Bugzilla to vote. Registration is easy and free