Local MeeGo Networks/China/Beijing/meeting 1101

Beijing MeeGo Network Meeting of Jan, 2011

Time : 19:30--21:30, Jan 12th, 2011

Location : Building 4, No.11 Hepingli Dongjie, Dongchengqu, Beijing (inside Netqin company)

Website:http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Beijing-MeeGo-Network-Meeting-Jan-3662391.S.39686878?qid=29cee006-6eab-403d-85ef-bd5646ca0043&goback=%2Egmp_3662391%2Egde_3662391_member_35021541%2Egmp_3662391

Rough agenda:

1) Magic Hookup, Xiaotao will give a mobility related Qt based demo on N900. The key tech of the demo will be presented. 20min;

2）Gerard will show a demo about running MeeGo on a development board，20min；

3）Max to show a Qt based Maemo application, sharing the open source project experiences，20min；

4) the Qt training plans in Universities China this year from Jonathan, 20min;

5) Richard will give an introduce of MeeGo input method framework and the least status of the input method of MeeGo, 20min;

Note: The agenda is drafted by my current understanding. Topics may added or changed on the meeting according to the attendees.

See you!

--Yu Kuifei

Summary and planning

Jan12 19:30--~22:00 About 25 persons from Universities, other open source communities, software solution providers, and mobile service providers.

1) Magic hookup (Xiaotao)

• Nokia voip library -- sofia is suggested
• mesh potato, a service utilizing wifi in India

2) MeeGo input method framework (Richard)

• private DBus==>security, efficiency
• Qt lighthouse
• lots of Nokia MeeGo product related questions raised and discussed
• and this session takes about one hour:)

3) Open source community experience sharing (Harish)

• a multi-user component for Unix released in year 1992, suddenly get an email about it from the open source community in 2005:)
• open source community get quite small contribution from China (exclude those stuffs working in a open source company like Redhat)
• problems for China developers to get involved in open source community: language, and they work over time already
• training professors for using the open community tools like IRC, WiKi
• TeachingOpenSource.org

4) Qt plan from Forum Nokia (Zheng Wei)

• the plan is not mature enough to share, but it's comming
• Qt is the right way, QML for application development is amazing
• products will be availabe sometime this year

We unfortunately post-pone Gerard's session to next meeting for the sake of time being, although several guys got a look at his Pandaboard and beagleboard:)

And the greatest part is that you could talk freely with whoever, whenever there:)

Seeing you in the next meeting!

Br., Yu Kuifei