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In this edition...

  1. Front Page
    • Draft bylaws for non-profit entity to take over Maemo infrastructure
  2. Applications
    • Open source video editor for Harmattan from Collabora
    • Unlocking landscape use of Harmattan built-in apps
    • Enable traffic updates in N9 Drive app
    • New version of Shutdown compatible with N9 PR1.3 now available
  3. Development
    • Harmattan repository for open-mode/Inception-requiring packages
  4. Community
    • How should the community around Jolla look?
  5. Devices
    • Nokia officially announces PR1.3 for N9
  6. In the Wild
    • Interview with Jussi Hurmola, CEO of Jolla

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Draft bylaws for non-profit entity to take over Maemo infrastructure

Via: @jaffa2

Editor: Andrew Olmsted

In a proposal on the Maemo Community mailing list, RM Bauer details a draft bylaw to change the maemo.org infrastructure that is currently provided by Nokia to a non-profit entity possibly to be named the Hildon Foundation. In order to continue the community at www.maemo.org in the future, it will be necessary to migrate much of the infrastructure and associated elements to a new site and to establish a separate entity for that purpose. See generally http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=84933. The attached bylaws are proposed for discussion. Please note that this is primarily a legal document and this is not the appropriate place to discuss many of the issues associated with the actual migration of the community. Time will tell how the idea is received and how the obstacles will be navigated.

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Open source video editor for Harmattan from Collabora

Via: @w00teh

Editor: Andrew Olmsted

Robert Swain blogs about an open source, touch screen, video editing tool written by Collabora employees as part of an internal application development competition. I’ve been saving this post for a while until it got accepted and published but the time has come… VideoEditor, an open source touchscreen video editor app for the Nokia N9/N950, is now available on Ovi Store for the grand price of [currency] 0! It has been developed in an open way from the beginning and the full source code is available on github. Awesome. From the description in the Nokia Store: "Video clips can be added to a timeline, reordered, trimmed to adjust transitions within the composition. The composition can be previewed and exported to a new file. The touch interface allows easy editing, zooming and navigation using common gestures like taps, drags and pinches." Sounds awesome indeed.

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Unlocking landscape use of Harmattan built-in apps

Via: @jaffa2

Editor: Ryan Abel

There was an interesting reversal in orientation support from Fremantle to Harmattan, where previously landscape-only applications had been the norm, a lot of the built-in applications in Harmattan support only portrait orientation. This is especially frustrating for N950 users using the device's keyboard. A Talk user "Vesuri" has put together patches for libmeegotouch which alter the orientation locking behavior to allow locked applications to rotate and a theme package that provides landscape layouts for the portrait-only applications.

As the modification requires replacing system libraries (libmeegotouch) and modification of system files, the modification should probably only be applied by those willing to risk a reflash.

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Enable traffic updates in N9 Drive app

Via: @jaffa2

Editor: Ryan Abel

William Su went digging in the Drive QML files and found disabled support for traffic and automatic day/night support. Combined with additional patches to fix bugs in Nokia's implementation of the features, they enable both the fetching and display of traffic data on-map, and the automatic toggling of the map theme for day/night. The patches require some familiarity with the terminal to install, and messing up commands could render your copy of Drive unusable, so those without strong affinity for the commandline should probably steer clear.

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New version of Shutdown compatible with N9 PR1.3 now available

Via: @GeneralAntilles

Editor: Ryan Abel

Felipe Crochik has updated his Shutdown utility, which provides a simple way to shutdown or reboot the device, with compatibility for PR1.3. Shutdown is available for free from the Nokia Store.

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Harmattan repository for open-mode/Inception-requiring packages

Via: @Jaffa2

Editor: Andrew Olmsted

Mohammad Abu-Garbeyyeh has announced a repository for software packages that depend on open-mode or Inception being available on user devices. The repository itself requires either open-mode or Inception to enable it on the device, so it is unlikely a user could do damage to a locked device. Feedback has been very positive thusfar.

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How should the community around Jolla look?

Via: @Jaffa2

Editor: Ryan Abel

The Jolla announcement two weeks ago was a big event for those of us in the Maemo and MeeGo communities, but it brought with it little in the way of specific information or structure. Jolla's public face is essentially limited to a Twitter feed (@JollaMobile), but this presents an opportunity to provide input on what the community and infrastructure around Jolla might look like, and Carsten Munk put that question to Maemo community on Talk last week: How would you guys like the community to look around Jolla SW/HW etc? The aggregate experience of folks in the Maemo community on these matters is significant, to say the least, and similar questions were addressed when MeeGo.com was first being put together in early 2010. Henri Bergius posted his thoughts on MeeGo.com's structure on his blog at the time, and, in this editor's opinion, it still applies for Jolla. Two big takeaways from the maemo.org experience, though, are making sure there's buy-in from people empowered to make decisions before launching services which revolve around products (Bugzilla and Brainstorm), and to pursue more aggressive moderation of the forum (especially as the community grows).

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Nokia officially announces PR1.3 for N9

Via: @GeneralAntilles

Editor: Ryan Abel

A bit late, but Nokia finally officially announced the PR1.3 update for the N9 (which began rolling out two weeks ago) last week on the Nokia Conversations blog: Last week, the Nokia N9 began to receive its latest software update, delivering over 1000 quality improvements. This brings the Nokia N9 software to version 40.2012.21-3, or as it’s most commonly known, PR1.3. While this update adds no new features, it does improve the usability of your device – so we recommend you update. The main improvements include: Mail for Exchange (MfE) now supports client certificates, localisation improvements and support for new error codes with the Facebook app, and Twitter API changes that reflect the back end infrastructure of Twitter. As well as these main updates, there are also some general updates: AccuWeather widget weather update fixed, VoIP calls now work via Skype/Gtalk when in flight mode and connected to WLAN, and changing the “week starts on” date within the calendar error now fixed. There have been complaints about regressions in the update, so if you haven't already updated you may wish to investigate the forums before upgrading, as a downgrade (as normal) isn't possible.

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Interview with Jussi Hurmola, CEO of Jolla

Via: @Jaffa2

Editor: Andrew Olmsted

IntoMobile has an interview with the CEO of Jolla, Jussi Hurmola. Jussi seems to be quite open in the interview, although there are of course things that he cannot or would rather not answer directly. One thing that was addressed quite well was the timing of the announcement. Stefan: Here’s a big question I have. Why did you choose to reveal Jolla right now instead of waiting until you had a phone or an operating system to show?

Jussi: Last week there was a lot of news concerning MeeGo and PR 1.3 for the Nokia N9. People started speculating if this was the end of the story. Is this the end of the line? Will there be anymore hope? If you look at our first tweets, what we basically wanted to say is that MeeGo is not dead. We got such a tremendous response from Twitter and the online community and even traditional media that we didn’t have a choice but to just go with it. The interview answers questions such as employees, funding, general device plan, and more information about the company in general. Your editor has been trying to keep from getting too excited over the news due to past experience, but hopefully it is a project like this that will draw a great community and allow people to feel part of something really special.

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