Editor: Andrew Flegg
Piotr Jawidzyk has publicised details of the new Maemo Community Council's meeting schedule. They are held every Friday, 18:00 UTC, at IRC channel #maemo-meeting. Every interested Community Member is free (and welcome) to actively participate. Furthermore, after every meeting, minutes are published on Council's blog and News section of maemo.org.
Editor: Andrew Olmsted
Version 3.5 of Nokia Suite is now available with a few new features for the Nokia N9. New functionality in 3.5 release: Copy content between your Nokia N9 and your computer; Get important improvements and fixes for many problems
Editor: Andrew Olmsted
Michael Demetriou has succeeded in getting Fremantle (N900) applications to run on Harmattan. I was just successful in running Wordpress from maemo-extras on the N950 using a chroot Maemo 5 PR1.3 rootfs image. As I am not allowed to post the image here I will post instructions shortly, but for now you have a teaser video. DISCLAIMER: I don't know what works, maybe the first app that came to my mind (WordPress) luckily worked and nothing else does. Also the virtual keyboard doesn't work so for the N9 you'll need a bluetooth keyboard. More testing is required to determine what works and what doesn't, but this looks to be a good step toward expanding the catalogue of applications for Harmattan.
Editor: Andrew Flegg
Following last week's "BlackBerry 10 Dev Jam" in London, your editor has documented how he's quickly got a Qt application running on the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha: However, I've got an existing app, Bedside which is almost pure QML. Could I get it running? The answer turned out to be "yes", and even with a single source tree usable in the separate IDEs. By installing Necessitas (and thus having 3 separate Qt-targetting SDKs on the system), the same source tree is now installable on Android (tested with an N9 running Nitdroid).
The minutes of a recent council meeting are online. Summary of topics (ordered by discussion): Community Awards - approaching finale; Quim's e-mail about Nokia follow-up; IRC management; QT-components-10 promotion; Misc public topics.
There was some friction during the meeting itself as to how the council should interact with Nemein behind the scenes. Andrew Flegg has suggested the simple answer is to use the maemo-community mailing list, as it was created to be the main artery for exactly this kind of day-to-day operation.
Editor: Ryan Abel
After careful deliberation, the Maemo Community Council announced their selections for the Community Awards last week. The complete list of winners is on the wiki page. Congratulations to all of them!
If you've won a device, be sure to register at Nokia Developer and provide current mailing information, then provide your Developer ID to the council.
Editor: Andrew Olmsted
Slashgear has an article from the perspective of some nearly-former Nokia employees on how close the company was to having a finished product in Meltemi. A new LinkedIn group founded by a small club of former Nokia Meltemi developers has suggested the platform was “coming together” and “had made it over the big hurdles” when CEO Stephen Elop axed it. The “MPD Alumni” group – previously known more blatantly as the Meltemi Product Developer Alumni – currently has just over 300 members, though there’s no indication of how many actually worked on the Meltemi project itself. There are some interesting quotes from people allegedly involved in the project.
Editor: Andrew Flegg
Thomas Perl has updated the port of NumptyPhysics for the N9 & N950, with the latest source and improved system integration.
Numpty Physics is a drawing puzzle game in the spirit (and style?) of Crayon Physics using the same excellent Box2D engine. As well as providing a download link, Thomas also outlines some "low-hanging fruit" which potential contributors could use to get started.