In this edition...

  1. Front Page
    • Nokia supporting Hildon Foundation in ecosystem infrastructure move
  2. Development
    • Port Qt apps from MeeGo to BlackBerry 10 to potentially get $10,000
  3. Community
    • Council meeting minutes from 23rd November

Front Page

Nokia supporting Hildon Foundation in ecosystem infrastructure move

Via: @jaffa2

Editor: Ryan Abel

The Hildon Foundation Board made a surprising and welcome announcement last week, notifying the community that Nokia has offered to cover the costs of migration for maemo.org: In a conference held by Nokia, Nemein and the Hildon Foundation, Nokia has offered to help economically in the process of migration. The details for starting the migration are under discussion. Nokia is already working with the Hildon Foundation in a legal document to cover the transferring process ofmaemo.org assets. While this document is being reviewed and completed, the migration process of services should take place during the month of December.

Details are still being discussed, but so far Nokia will cover the costs of the migration and of new hardware for the site. Funding for hosting costs at Nemein will need to be covered by the foundation beginning in 2013.

Development

Port Qt apps from MeeGo to BlackBerry 10 to potentially get $10,000

Via: @jaffa2

Editor: Andrew Flegg

Ash Nazir, previously of MeeGoExperts and now a developer evangelist for Europe for RIM, enthuses about the opportunities for Qt developers in 2013: Now that Digia have aquired Qt its all hands on Deck again with all Qt interested parties pulling in the same direction.

Research in Motion (RIM) are releasing their new BlackBerry 10 operating system with new devices on the 30th January 2013 and having used them, they are pretty good JollaMobile will be releasing later in the year with the Sailfish OS as well. This is a great time to port your Qt Apps and start making some real money for your development efforts.

Those interested in porting their Qt apps to BB10 - and potentially getting $10,000 for the task - should investigate. In your editor's experience, it's very similar to developing for Maemo or MeeGo; and a lot of common code should be possible between Mer/Nemo Mobile/Sailfish and BlackBerry.


Community

Council meeting minutes from 23rd November

Via: @jaffa2

Editor: Ryan Abel

The meeting minutes from the community council meeting on November 23rd were posted last week. Topics covered: IRC Account Requirement for Councilors, Infrastructure, CC Devices Situation, and Misc topics (including Jolla communications, IRC cloaks, and various action items regarding the covered topics).