The Engadget Interview: Jolla CEO Marc Dillon at MWC 2013
Jolla launched its Sailfish SDK at MWC 2013 and we got the chance to chat with CEO Marc Dillon about the company's history and find out how things have been coming along with Sailfish OS since our hands-on late last year. We also discussed the time frame for Jolla handsets (still on track for H2 2013) and what the Sailfish SDK brings to the table for developers today. You'll find a full …
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
gPodder 2.20.2 for Maemo 4/5, gPodder 3.3.0 for MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan
gPodder 2.20.2 has been released today, and gPodder 3.3.0 has also been released. Version 2.20.2 is for users of Maemo 4 (N800/N810) and Maemo 5 (N900) and version 3.3.0 is for MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan users (N950/N9).
MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 10 Sep 2012
Front Page Upcoming Maemo Community Council and Hildon Foundation board member elections Craig Woodward , current chair of the Community Council, has announced that the council will be curtailing their term (slightly) to have an election “While it's been just over 5 months, the current Council feels that due to timing considerations the next Community Council elections are due at this time. This year there are two elections to be run in parallel.” “COUNCIL MEMBERS – The council is a body of volunteers taken from the Maemo community that acts as a focal point for the community. The role of Council will continue to be as it was before, as a group to work with the Community, and act as a focal point for communication with group in charge of services needed by the community to continue, whomever that turns out to be.” “BOARD MEMBERS- Due to Nokia's state, its funding for maemo.org in 2013 is uncertain
Maemo Elections (September 2012)
While it's been just over 5 months, the current Council feels that due to timing considerations the next Community Council elections are due at this time. This election will be a very special one, considering the state of Maemo and Nokia and how things have unfolded over the past few months.
Community Council Meeting (Aug 3, 2012)
In an effort to increase transparency and access for the community, Council holds public meetings each Friday at 18:00UTC.
Off the Record Messaging: A Tutorial
OK, a rather long post about effective digital communication. Hopefully an interesting read to folks who would like to add some code to protect communications but haven’t gotten around to that TODO item just yet. A commonly used method for sending messages to others when you need authentication and privacy is to use an OpenPGP tool such as GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG)
Off the Record Messaging: A Tutorial
OK, a rather long post about effective digital communication. Hopefully an interesting read to folks who would like to add some code to protect communications but haven’t gotten around to that TODO item just yet. A commonly used method for sending messages to others when you need authentication and privacy is to use an OpenPGP tool such as GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG)
Performance and Memory Usage of Evolution Data Server
Openismus asked me to perform some benchmarks on Evolution Data Server . We wanted to track the progress of recent performance improvements and identify possible improvements.
Qt5 LedScreen component
Howdy! Do you remember the time before HD, amoled etc. super sharp screens? When pixels were so big that you could easily count them and any colors were luxury?