Anticipating the best ever Maemo Summit
Community, News — By Sami on September 4, 2009 at 12:34 am
Maemo Summit 2009
Last two weeks have been busy for the Maemo community:
- Official launch of Nokia N900 mobile computer
- maemo.nokia.com – website opened and visited by 12 million people in 24 hours
- Nokia World 2009: TLC for N900 by many bloggers, publications and other media. Numerous hands-on online videos creating pure lust and restless waiting pains until the shipments start in October
All these have created unprecedented hype and discussion in e.g. Twitter about Maemo and N900. Countless new-to-Maemo people are getting to know the power of Maemo OS and have started to rethink their views and opinions about Nokia’s competitiveness in the high-end cellular market.
Developer community is getting revitalized after somewhat stagnant period during the first half of this year. Many new online publications about Maemo are being launched (incl. yours truly) and existing ones are getting re-branded to focus on Maemo-brand or otherwise back to full speed posting. All this attention for Maemo OS and eager anticipation for N900 shipments is giving a big boost to this year’s Maemo Summit too. Summit participation is expected to grow a lot from earlier years. Already now, more than a month before the event, registrations have exceeded last year’s numbers.
Maemo summit is a combined effort by Nokia and the Maemo community. It is a three day event, one day organized by Nokia and two by the community. Venue for this year’s event is the lovely WesterGasFabriek in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Summit dates are Friday to Sunday, October 9-11.
- First day schedule includes some heavy hitters like the Nokia VP for Maemo devices, Ari Jaaksi and the Executive Director for Linux Foundation, Jim Zemlin. The latter part of the the Nokia-organized day has three tracks: App development, N900 bundle app reviews (Firefox, Skype etc.) and Platform topics. Friday night is reserved for the Maemo Party. Great opportunity to mingle and meet with your friends in Maemo community!
- Second day has similarly three tracks. Two are concentrating on community developed user apps and frameworks, like Modest email client, Canola media player and adapting GNOME apps to Maemo. Third track concentrates on Maemo platform, including presentations about developing with QT for the coming Maemo releases.
- Third day has the same tracks and the summit ends with Lightning talks (5 min rapid fire presentations) and a round table.
Registration for the Maemo Summit is FREE, summit schedule is great and connections to Amsterdam are easy and economical from anywhere in Europe (and beyond), so there’s really no reason to miss this great event!
If you’re thinking to join the summit, which session are most interested in? Are you seeing some critical area of Maemo missing from schedule. Please leave a comment or discuss in the forum.
Tags: maemo, MaemoSummit, n900, twitter
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