Yet-Another-QA thread suggests some concrete changes to Extras

Threads about the issues with the Extras-testing process are not new, however this one has some concrete and easily achievable changes which might warrant further discussion. Roman Morawek started the thread with: I uploaded a new release of my application on 5th of November, so more than 2.5 months ago. Right now, I have 6 positive votes (including mine) - thus 60% of the demanded hurdle. I guess my application is not one of the top apps, but downloaded ca. 100.000 times. So I expect it is also used and not only positioned in an extreme niche.

I think that such a period for a new release is too long. It has the potential to demotivate developers and users stick to outdated application versions. The Maemo community size is also probably not further increasing in future, so this won't help neither.

Name the pre-conference activities for future MeeGo conferences

Dave Neary has started a poll on the MeeGo forums to help pick the new name for the pre-conference events for the MeeGo Conference in San Francisco. At the MeeGo Conference in Dublin, we held some activities over the weekend before the conference - we called them "Early Bird events" and some of the feedback we got was that the name wasn't very good. So we've agreed to change it (via discussions on the meego-community mailing list), and I've got a short-list of candidate names we need to choose from. Without further ado: please vote for your favourite of the following names, which will be the pre-conference activities for the next few MeeGo Conferences, starting in San Francisco in May.

Suggest location for MeeGo Conference in November 2011

The Call for Venue selection has gone out for the November 2011 MeeGo Conference location. Requirements are listed on the wiki page, with the primary limitation being that the location should be in Europe. If you have an appropriate proposal, add it to the list on the wiki. We are looking for venues which can host a plenary session of 2000, 5-6 breakout rooms, a registration and techshowcase area. A venue which can host keynotes with twice the capacity of the November 2010 MeeGo Conference? This will be big.

Mobile art app contest at mobilefreidae in Berlin on Feb, 4th

This week, on 4th February, another "mobilefreidae" will be held in Berlin. You contribute MeeGo apps and demos; or turn up and see what's going on: The transmedile 11 art festival partly takes place in the c-base. The mobile freidae event ist part of this evening and we are looking for The event will be held at the impressive c-base venue in Berlin, the location of the first Maemo Summit back in 2008.