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Developer to developer

Tampere initiated the first Local Meego Network in Europe, Tampere Meego Network. This is annual summit which is held in different locations around Finland. Tampere will host the first Regional Meego Summit in the world. Although the first Summit is at Tampere, this is a joined effort.

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Tampere and Helsinki local networks have joined forces and other local networks are also welcome to participate! Furthermore, this conference will host Finnish hacker & OSS event Finhack (16th Apr)


The summit is free of charge, but the amount of seats is limited!


Meego Summit FI includes also a 'hackathon' type of competition, which includes two categories: 'Hard Core' (Both HW and SW) and 'Quick & Dirty' (Just SW). Competition is called: "Meegathon" and more details can be found below.

Details

Organizers

Main organizer:

Contact Person(s) Sector Role Organization
Ilkka Lehtinen General, sponsors Head COSS

Co-Organizers:

Contact Person(s) Sector Role Organization
Jarkko Moilanen General + Program (Community & hackers) Organizer OSKE
Jukka Matikainen  ? Organizer OSKE
Matti Saastamoinen General, sponsors Organizer COSS
Ville Kairamo Facilities Organizer NewFactory

Teams

MNFI community needs different type of teams and task-forces to arrange activities. Members of the teams should be from the member networks but foreign members are also welcome. Some of the teams are active throughout the year, but some are active only before and during our annual Summits.

All teams (should) have a lead which coordinates the team efforts. To join a team is simple:

  • add your name to the team member list and
  • if possible contact the lead in IRC-channel (#meego-fi)


Program Task-force

The committee has been formed by inviting suitable MeeGo Network Finland -community members to it. Current composition is (in alphabetical order):


Marketing & PR Team

To be formed ASAP.

  • (lead) Jens Wiik (jnwi) - firstnameDOTlastname ät kolumbus.fi
  • Saija Saarenpää (matrixx) - krista_1985 ät hotmail.com // can at least spread around leaflets in Hervanta (Tampere) area (TTY/TUT, Hermia etc.)
  • Anssi Eteläniemi (Ans5i) - aetelani ät hotmail.com // can do same as Saija
  • Jari Suksi (Jarrrgh) // can do graphic design for the leaflets(/flyers/stickers/..)
  • Juha "Riussi" Ristolainen, I can help spread the word.
  • Jarkko Moilanen (kyb3R) - I can spread leaflets and posters in center Uni (UTA, Tampere)

More information can be found here

Ideas & Tasks

  • leaflets
  • banners for webpages
  • Activate MeeGo bloggers to write about this community and MeeGo Summit FI 2011
    • email 'inside' information to bloggers once in a while.
  • (T-) shirts for participants
  • (T-) shirts for Teams (design logos for teams, which will also be used in portal).
  • (Texrat) will do the images/logos for teams. Texrat is quit busy, so perhaps Jarrrgh could try this too. Shirt color will also indicate whether shirt owner belongs to organizers or not. Descriptions for team logos:
    • General Management: a fat meegon with cylinder hat.
    • Marketing Team: meegon holding a vacuum cleaner with tiny MeeGo text on it and trying to sell it to you.
    • Party Team: will clearly be an intoxcated meegon or two
    • Hacker team: meegon sweating over a desktop computer
    • Hosting Team: a meegon in suite, old style clothes, sophisticated looking.
    • Communication & Tech Team: meegon talking a lot :) speech bubble, very open mouth
  • Design stickers (logo will come soon)
  • Image which indicates the spirit of the Summit - 'developer to developer'
  • team could write blog entries about events such as Summits, Local Network Meetups, etc.

Communication & Tech Team

Effective and open communication has two sides: internal and external. This team is responsible for internal communication tools which include methods to share information among local networks and members. Working and transparent communication is vital to our community since our activities are coordinated with virtual tools such as email, IRC and portal.

External communication refers to the different tools we use to communicate with the public and global MeeGo community. For these purposes we use various social media services such as twitter.com/meegofi, facebook.com/meegofi and identi.ca/meegofi.

We have (meegofi) an account at vimeo.com where we can upload (500Mb/month) videos about our events (created by kyb3R).

Responsible for:

  • Social media accounts
  • IRC channel(s) (ops)
  • portal development
  • Summit venue infrastructure & connections
  • Mailing lists
  • Summit registration (technical)


Members:

  • Carol "cybette" Chen - team lead
  • Heikki Ilvespakka - venue IT lead (no nick?)
  • Ilkka Lehtinen - venue IT (no nick?)
  • Jarkko Moilanen (kyb3R) - IRC op & chan owner
  • Nina Kuisma (ninnnu) (wants to participate registration system development)
  • Jarkko Kniivilä (jkniiv / jibun) – general/venue IT "help"
  • your name here

Guidelines and policy

Hosting Team

Team is active mostly before and during the annual MeeGo Summit FI events. Team's duties include comprehensive management of items which affect speaker's enjoyment. Such items are for example arranging hotel rooms, providing information and assisting in session preparations. Managing pre-registration and registration (including portal) is one of the key responsibilities of this team.

Team also manages the information desk at the summit venue. They are the people to go to when you have lost your precious laptop, Tux/MeeGon figure or hacking buddy. Information desk is also the correct place to inform the organizers about different activities which summit participants are encouraged to arrange at the venue. Such activities include hands-on sessions for small groups, unconference/barcamp sessions and workhops (or in this case hack-shops). When in doubt, turn to these people.

Responsible for:

  • helping the speakers (hosts for the tracks: 3+1)
  • manages info desk (4 volunteers),
  • (assists in catering) Catering will be delivered as package (lunches, coffees, etc.) from Juvenes.
  • reception/registration (also portal registration development/management).
  • handles videorecording of the sessions and live video broadcast (1 volunteer).
  • handles summit notifications at the venue.
  • hotel arrangements (1 volunteer) - Riussi
  • babysitters for press, divas (yes, there’s always these too) (2 volunteers)

In total: 11+1 volunteers

  • More information can be found here

Party MeeGons

This is probably 'teh' team for all party-MeeGons. If you have talent in being a VJ, DJ or you have ideas for stunning laser shows, this team is for you. Parties are important part of any summit or conference. We do not want to offer our summit participants fancy dinners at mansions or rigid and boring wine tasting. We prefer to have more casual and relaxed parties, which can include ad hoc competitions and shows. MeeGo Summit FI evening party is on Friday night. Join the party-MeeGons!

While bouncers are handy to control the crowd, we believe that they are not needed in this case :)

Responsible for:

  • Evening party at MeeGo Summit FI
  • DJ/VJ (1+1 volunteers)
  • ...

Members:

  • Juha "Riussi" Ristolainen. I can also help in organizing the party but we need an experienced team lead for this team.
  • Jukka Eklund (jukkaeklund). I can't VJ or anything but will help to get the party going (won't be a bouncer however)

Ideas & Tasks

  • Invent a leet name for the party!

Hack3r Team

To be labelled as Hacker is an honor among us. The word hacker means to us the same as 'Sir' does for the royalty. Members of this team are talented in different technical areas and posses deep knowledge. If you're not overwhelmed in front of technical problems, this is your team. Ability to think outside-the-box and to find a solution is important. Your solution to problems do not need to be most elegant and polished, it just needs to work.

This team will coordinate efforts related to:

  • Meegathon competition which is part of MeeGo Summit FI 2011
  • Helps competition teams in technical issues. (4-5 volunteers)
  • Responsible for the USB-sticks ('Developer stick') which is given to all participants (contains latest developer tools) (1-2 volunteers)
  • Coordinates tool-shop usage (1 volunteer)

Members:

  • Laszlo Papp (djszapi)
  • (lead) Topi Santakivi (sandst1) first_nameD0Tlastname _ÄTT_ gmail.com
  • ...

Ideas & Tasks:

  • Sign to be attached in the entry-point of Meegathon teams: hackland-sign.png
  • Polish/Define the competition (Meegathon) rules.
  • Define the content of 'Developer USB-stick'
  • Create new LAN/WLAN solutions which might help.

Program

The summit program includes keynotes, three tracks, workshops, evening party on Friday and Meegathon competition. On Saturday we have Finhack (http://www.finhack.org) annual conference on the second floor.

Confirmed Speakers

Topics will be set later, in February - March.

Tracks

In every organization, there are people who just have the knack for getting the most out of certain software and tools. These tracks are where those people shine -- it is the place to show off the newest tools, share creative uses for old favorites, and of course pass on hacks, tips and tricks. Sessions may include demonstrations, pilot projects, examples, techniques, and lessons learned.

  1. Core & Future - Apps and possibilities with latest tools (Fri - Sat)
  2. Hacks & Tricks - HW inventions, unconventional experiments (Fri - Sat)
  3. Biz Buzz - MeeGo Ecosystem and Open Source (Fri)

Hackshops and BOFs

Also known as lame Workshops. Participating to Hackshops requires sufficient amount of hack attitude and enthusiasm. We have some facilities (small meeting rooms) for hackshops. If you get an idea about what to teach/show to others (preferably hands-on stuff), book yourself a hackshop space and let the organizers know about it by dropping at the information desk! Your hackshop will be announced in twitter and on the venue screens. If you already know a topic, put it below.

Ideas for Workshops and BOFs

Add your ideas for workshops below. Also add your name if willing to run the workshop.

  • ...

Meegathon

Meegathon is a hacker type of competition, much like a hack-a-thon. The following competition takes place between Fri 12:00am and Sat 12:00am. All teams demonstrate their results Saturday to all event participants. Best inventions and innovations are rewarded. Competition includes two categories:

  • Hardcore (HW & SW)
  • Quick & Dirty (SW only)

Hardcore

  • the end-product must include and use MeeGo OS (1.1 or above) as one of the main components.
  • the end-product HW must be self-made (may include manufactured circuits, wires, connectors, etc)
  • keep the size in reasonable limits, eg no monster cars or full scale helicopters.
  • all pyrotechnics and acid based solutions are forbidden!
  • the agenda of your project is not limited in anyway (except the above).

Quick & Dirty

  • must include only software.
  • the end-product must include and use MeeGo OS (1.1 or above) as one of the main components.
  • hardware available: web cameras, wires,...
  • the agenda for the software is given in the beginning of Meegathon and is the same for all.
  • software produced must run on one of the following hardware:
    • Nokia N900
    • Lenovo Ideapad S10-3t Tablet or similar
    • The list of devices will be updated later.


All teams have a dedicated space where to build stuff in the second floor. The space is a big hall, which is divided into smaller areas.

Team rules

  • max 5 persons
  • no limitations to member origin (eg from corporate, hackerspaces, LUG's, etc) If the team is sponsored by corporation or includes only corporation employees, it MUST be stated in project description.

Party

  • Friday night, detailed time will be announced later
  • Location: coordinates will be announced later
  • name of the party?

Quadricopter/MeeGo games

We might be able to arrange a possibility to hold small-scale playful games with couple of Quadricopters. More will be revealed later. Needs 1-3 volunteers.


Sponsoring

Sponsoring opportunities and packages, contact Ilkka Lehtinen (ilkka dot lehtinen @ hermia dot fi)

Sponsors:

  • Ixonos (Main Sponsor)
  • Tieto

How to contribute?

Interested in helping? Great! Contributing is easy and you can give as little or as much time as you want.

Here are just a few ways you can get started:

  • Check the TODO list below to find something that needs to be done.
  • Join discussion at our IRC channel: #meego-fi (irc.freenode.org) and ask what you can do. If you don't have a IRC client, you can access the channel from this free service: http://webchat.freenode.net/
  • Join our mailing list (add here)

Here are some of the volunteer opportunities:

  • IRC Chat Moderators
  • Information Desk Helpers
  • Session Tech Support
  • Conference Setup - 14th Apr.
  • Conference Cleanup - 16th Apr
  • Speaker Assistants
  • Hacking Session Helpers


Not sure where you want to volunteer yet until the conference schedule is finalized? Put your name here and we'll add more detailed volunteer tables in the months to come.

Volunteers:

TODO

List of tasks etc that needs to be done by organizers or volunteers. Add your name after a task if you want to do it.

  • Define and collect software package (collected about a week before Summit) given for every attendee in a USB stick. 300 pcs. Cuts back the need to download all software from the net. USB-sticks will be provided by New Factory. - Topi Santakivi (sandst1)
  • Marketing material: t-shirts, stickers, flyers....
    • Matti Saastamoinen (smoinen) and/or Ilkka Lehtinen might attend FOSDEM on Feb 5-6, 2011. Leaflets should be ready before that. Also MeeGo Summit FI 2011 T-shirts would be nice.
  • Activate MeeGo bloggers to write about this community and MeeGo Summit FI 2011. This could be done be sending 'inside' information to key bloggers once in a while. That way they get the feeling of being 'special' and in the frontline.
  • Photographs and/or video from the venue site. Sneak-peak about the facilities which will be transformed to for Summit needs. Place the images somewhere public so they can be used in tweets.
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