Date: 16 Dec 2010
Location: Building 2, No.11 Hepingli Dongjie, Dongchengqu, Beijing (北京市东城区和平里东街11号院内四号楼)
Next Meeting:http://meego.com/community/events/2011/lmn-beijing-meego-network-meeting
The rough agenda:
1)Talk from sponsor (if there is one)
2)A QML messaging related demo on N900 (Yu Kuifei, 15min)
3)Qt Mobility API, current status, mail list, what we can contribute to the mobility API (Man Zhiyong and all, 30 min)
4)Fancy demos on MeeGo netbook (Alex Lau, 30min)
5)What we, as a local community, could contribute to MeeGo other than coding? And show me the way to do that. What's the possible rewards for contributing (reputation, job opportunities, take part in MeeGo conference for free)? (Gerard, and all 30min)
6)Concrete tasks to cooperate with DevDiv, COPU, other open source community (all, 30 min)
7)...
Meeting of Dec2010
Location: L3, Building 4, Hepingli Donglu No.11, Dongcheng Qu, Beijing Time: 16, Dec. 2010, 19:00--21:30
Participants: colleagues from EB ( specialists/archetects/managers, 6), colleagues from Platomix (2), Alex from Novell, Gerard from Fedora community, colleagues from Nokia (NRC&Marketing&CIC, 5), Hacktao, Gazer Liang, students from BUPT and other universities (about 30 persons in all)
What happened on the meeting: After the self-introduction section, Jonathan, from Nokia Marketing, gives a short talk about his vision on Nokia-developers relationship and Nokia's efforts on building up the ecosystem such as developement tools, and free tech trainings.
I showed a demo on N900 to depicte the relationship between QML and Javascipt, as well as the current status of Qt Mobility Add on. Commication Manager, a Qt based application on N900, demonstrated to groups by Zhiyong's team from Netqin.
Parallel sub-sessions formed and the meeting room got hot:) I falled in a disscussion with Yupeng from Platomix. He showed me their efforts on UI customeration works on his N8-00. He is very interested in the progress of plateform bugfixing and lib building. They pay lots of efforts on walking around bugs and building their own libs, but simply goes to useless when new plateform version got released with those bug fixed and those libs having the same functionalities. Other than finding out walk around solutions or building their own libs by themself, I suggest they participants the bugfixing community, develope their lib together with the open souce community, or get their existing lib upstream. I would say Gerard and Alex give similar suggestions when I throw the question to all the audience.
MeeGo netbook UX is presented by Alax. Sina micro-blog client, added by his team to MeeGo netbook UX seems interesting. We also played a Linux game (forget the name, player trys to move the oil to a port of the tube) together on the Netbook.
Elektrobit and their main business here in Beijing are introduced. Interesting that they already got dozens of embedded Linux developers on board to prepare for MeeGo projects. They, as a company, interested in participanting this kind of activity to understand more about the current status of local MeeGo ecosystem, although how to cooperate effectively needs further discussion. They also showed interests in helding a Beijing Meego Network monthly meeting in their work place, nice:)
Gerard leads the discussion of the way the open source community works. Documentation and localization tasks are good starting points to learn the working mode in open souce community. They are also a very good starting point to get involved -- other members in the community knows you and would like to answer your questions or even fixing bugs together with you gradually.
Hacktao shared his experiences as a Qt developer. He has been working on Qt for several years. Years' ago, he managed to set up a public Inernet forum focusing on the Qt programing, with the hope that other developers could participate and give answers to his Qt related questions. But it turns out that the forum filled with more and more questions, but few answers comes. I would say Hacktao is a very proactive guy on developing his Qt competence and on getting connection with the developer community. And I believe there are quite many similar developers in China struggling to find a way to share with and get from the community.
We closed the meeting on about 21:30 as several attendees have a long way to get back home.
My thoughts about Beijing MeeGo Network and our monthly meetings: Getting active MeeGo/Qt developers involved, enabling them to exchange ideas/solutions, and bridging developers of the local community to global ones are the NUMBER ONE mission of Beijing MeeGo Network.
Identifing the specific open source Qt/MeeGo projects, listing concrete tasks of open source projects to our Beijing MeeGo Network community, showing the usage of must-have tools like maillinglist/git for a specific project, demoing the way to get tasks done and the work results, and initiating our own Beijing MeeGo Network open source Qt/MeeGo projects would be the main contents of our monthly meetings. I don't think it's a good idea to exclude Qt/MeeGo demos from closed-source projects or third-parties, as we are working on the same technology. So the inhouse demos is also welcomed to the monthly meeting.
I appreciate your participation and openness in this meeting. Expecting the next one and seeing you again! Thanks!
Br. Yu Kuifei
P.S. Special thanks to NetQin for providing the well-decorated big meeting room and delicious snacks:)