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=== When and Where ===
=== When and Where ===

Revision as of 08:29, 21 September 2010

Contents

Introduction

It would be nice to organize a weekend like the Barcelona Long Weekend we (the Maemo Community) organized on October 2009. These two days should be completly organized by the community and for the community. No formal conferences or talks, but interactive activities and hacking sessions where you, the participant, are the main actor.

What about the content of these two days? We could have (for example) programming tutorials, Qt tutorials, hacking sessions on a specific task, round tables where a developer explains his difficoulties implementing a feature and the others help him, ecc...

The first thing to do is spreading this and asking people (users, developers ecc...) what they would like to find during these two days. Once we've gathered some nice ideas we can organize them better.

List of people who would like to attend

Please make sure to be registered to the MeeGo Conference. If you'd like to attend, please add your name here - no strings attached, just to get a rough overview of the number of people interested. If you are also interested in helping organizing the event, please also add your name at the bottom of this Wiki page in the Volunteers section.

When and Where

The basic idea is to organize these two days on November 13th, 14th. About the location that will host us we still have no idea. Probably it will be possible to use the same hotel used for the MeeGo Conference, but this must be confirmed yet.

Tasks

  • Spread this idea around the community (in Maemo and MeeGo mailing lists and forums)
  • Gather ideas and feedback from users and developers
  • Create a public poll so the people can vote the most interesting content and we'll have a more realistic idea of what users want
  • Thinking about a proper name for these two days (sounds "Dublin MeeGo Weekend" good?)
  • Maybe create a customized logo for "Dublin MeeGo Weekend" ?
  • Implementation of a registration form for this event
  • ecc...

Ideas for the program

Overall program structure:

  • Active participation in the event - less talk, more code. No powerpoints - just you, the editor and the compiler. Be productive!
  • A two-day Hackathon: Start putting your ideas into fresh code, or finish a project that has been on the back burner for some time
  • Participants are encouraged to share their progress at the end of each day - what they accomplished, where they need further help, etc.

Session ideas:

  • Gentle introduction to Qt through PySide and QML, exploring the object hierarchy through the improved interactive interpreter IPython (-sivan)
  • A short but intensive indroduction to Qt/C++ (something like 3-4 hours course, offered by some expert developer)
  • Round tables to discuss about UI improvements or features implementation: a developer could have found some difficoult implementing the UI for his application or to provide a particular feature. Other expert developers could try to help him with his problem.
  • A workshop for x86 developers on getting started with MeeGo development for ARM - end goal: By the end of the session, everyone has a sample application running in an emulator on their laptop
  • Developer tools training - a half day on using git, valgrind, oprofile
  • One night coding competition.
  • ...

Extra-curricular activities:

  • A variety of team competitions with some kind of small prize
    • Geocache treasure hunt
    • Maker's contest - some ideas: build a good mousetrap powered car, a bridge with glue & lollipop sticks, or the best paper airplane (details to be announced on-site)
    • Pub quiz?

Dublin Weekend Program

(the program has still to be defined)

Volunteers

Links and discussions

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