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Introducing Maemo Talk
By  Reggie   September 1st, 2009
Categories: Maemo, maemo.org, News and walkaround web

Maemo Talk

Today, we’re launching Maemo Talk!

Think of it as itT v2.0.  It’s an ad-free site that will report on everything Maemo. It is not officially part of maemo.org nor affiliated with Nokia, but the site aims to showcase what’s happening in maemo.org, as well as from other Maemo enthusiast sites.

It’s still work in progress. There are a few more things we are revealing soon so, keep an eye on the site. Also, we need volunteers to blog about Maemo and the Nokia N900.

Let us know if you want to be part of the team.

Check it out: http://maemotalk.com

Comments and suggestions welcome as always.

The medium (Tweets) and the message (walkaround web)
By  RogerS   May 21st, 2009 4 comment(s)
Categories: Internet tablet, maemo.org, social networking and walkaround web

RogerS is RogerSPress on twitterThese days more of what I have to say about the Nokia Internet Tablet gets said via Twitter than at Internet Tablet Talk (and maemo.org).

A blog post usually takes me a couple hours to create, from working out what I have to say to cleaning up the version transmigrated to the forums. A bit less when I don’t make a graphic too. Being shorter — under 25 words — tweets take me only 5 to 15 minutes to compose.

No room for folderol (even though that’s my specialty as a blogger). No visuals expected. One link per item not only suffices but pressures you to say less; two links I’ve never done.

And with my hummingbird attention span, I finish a tweet and soon I’m on to the next think. But I have a couple dozen more-or-less-completed blogs that were never posted for want of the final . . . polish I’m inclined to say, but really it’s more a final galvanizing-to-life. A lot of work for no result.

There’s another reason, which relates to something Krisse posted recently. The world at large is unaware of the NIT’s sterling features, and just explaining what they are serves a real use. But the proportion of NIT owners who are developers is so great that the message is distorted in our forums. It’s like Oxford or Stony Brook — all university, no kindergarten.

So this thought leads me to two others. Is there any practical way for maemo.org to stream Internet Tablet-related tweets along with its other NIT/mameo coverage? (And any desire for people to see it here?) I leave this to the community at large to discuss because I won’t be writing a blog post about it.

I will, however, be writing about whether Twitter might not be the real internet app that the Internet Tablet was made for. The next one, anyway, the one that fits in your pocket, has a keyboard and 800-pixel-wide screen, and connects to the internet wherever you happen to walking around. Instead of today’s thought (“How might maemo.org benefit from Twitter”), maybe the essential issue is how might the Internet Tablet benefit Twitter users.

Twittery graphic from Ryan Putnam at vector.tutsplus.com. Thanks!

Internet Tablet Talk to become talk.maemo.org
By  Reggie   December 2nd, 2008 93 comment(s)
Categories: maemo.org

Let me first preface this announcement by first thanking everyone who has been supporting Internet Tablet Talk (itT) and making it the best resource for discussing the Nokia Internet Tablet and anything Maemo related.

Since the Maemo Summit, I have been discussing with Quim Gil and Jussi Makinen of Nokia as well as some of the council members on ways that itT could work more closely with maemo.org. The idea of bringing itT under the maemo.org umbrella came up, and I think it’s a good one. I’ve agreed with the council and the folks from Nokia to move itT to talk.maemo.org, and Nokia has agreed to become the primary sponsor of the site.

So, what does this mean? Well basically, the itT forums will become talk.maemo.org by early next year. The discussions will be carried over, the forum features will be retained, the forum look will change, moderators and admins will be added, the ads will be removed, and will still run on the same fast server you have all been enjoying for several years now. We will lose some parts of itT however like the news, wiki, and software sections in favor of maemo.org’s actual News, Wiki and Download sections. Roger and I however, will still be blogging/posting news from a new blog feature of the forums that is hoped to be added.

With the integration in place, I am hoping to join the maemo.org team to basically manage the forums. I would still like to take on the task however, of somehow linking the maemo.org Download section with the forums as I have originally planned in itT. Hopefully, such integration, and other future end-user interaction can make use of the new talk.maemo.org section.

I am excited to see this happen. I do think this is a huge step forward for the Maemo community. As usual, we would like to hear constructive feedback. How do you all think we can improve things in the forum. What do you want added, and what do you want changed. Chime in.

More details over at the maemo.org wiki.

You say ‘may-a-mo,’ I say ‘my-mo’ — or is it ‘mee-mo’?
By  RogerS   September 18th, 2008 33 comment(s)
Categories: general, Maemo, maemo.org and Nokia

As a nonce word, the pronunciation of maemo isn’t something you can check in a dictionary. And given its provenance, I’d venture that most people first encountered this word in print, and not orally.

Should each vowel be pronounced, making this one really short three-syllable word? Could be.

Should the first syllable be pronounced the same as the month of May? Makes sense.

Or does a followed by e represent the ae diphthong, which if really stretched out would be “maaa-eee” but which English speakers consider a long i: “my”? Well, yes, why not?

I’ve heard all these pronunciations used at OSiMWorld the past couple days, plus the “two-and-a-half-syllable” variation (really short e) and the “silent a” (“me”-mo).

Now some might argue that, as a trademark, Maemo’s pronunciation is properly decided by Nokia. But I figure if Sony couldn’t dictate that its corporate name be pronounced “sunny” (intended as a slang-y spelling of “sonny”-boy), that argument doesn’t hold water.

Someone said this evening that “I expect it to be ‘may-mo’ but I think of it as ‘my-mo’.” Me, too.

The first Maemo Summit begins Friday in Berlin. Since this event is birthing the Maemo Community to formally represent all the non-Nokia participants involved in our pocket revolution — that would be us enthusiasts, the users and developers — I’d like to point out that one good reason for preferring “my-mo” is simply how it subliminally confers this new status. Maybe Nokia has the trademark, but it is sharing ownership with us. With me. And now it truly is my Maemo.

OSiM Maemo Developer Session
By  Reggie   September 18th, 2008 26 comment(s)
Categories: Internet tablet, Maemo, maemo.org and Nokia

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The OSiM Maemo Developer Session today has previewed interesting topics to be discussed in detail tomorrow at the Maemo Summit. Below are some updates and some of the new and updated technologies that we can expect in future Maemo devices:

Newly adopted technologies:

  • Meta Tracker – content search and metadata tools
  • Pulse Audio – sound server replacing ESD & ALSA
  • OHM – Hardware management daemon
  • gUPnP – seamless connectivity between devices
  • upstart – fast system boot & stop

Updated technologies:

  • Gecko – now integrated with mozilla.org
  • Bluez – now with A2DP
  • gstreamer – now with openMAX
  • GTK+ – pushing mobile optimization
  • Telepathy – now with Farsight2

New contributions to the open source community:

  • to kernel.org:
    • HSPA/3G enablers for OMAP3 -> kernel.org
  • to garage.maemo.org:
    • stlc45xx.aka – the much awaited WLAN driver
    • DSME – hardware watchdog & thermal monitoring
    • MIDAS – media player application framework
    • Calendar engine – iCal RFC 2445 implementation

Maemo Fremantle:

  • SDK to be released soon
  • list of packages now available
  • incremental weekly releases unitl final version

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