MeeGo Conference Spring 2011

Revision as of 23:40, 5 May 2011

The main Conference site is: San Francisco Meego Conference 2011

Logistics

May 23 - 25: San Francisco Regency Hyatt

• Annual industry event
• Announcements / Information focus
• Broader industry audience
• Call for Proposals and Registration will open early February

Organizing Committee

File:Organizing committee.pdf

Team Lead: Amy Leeland

Advisory and Community Interface:

• Dawn Foster - Community Management
• Quim Gil - Marketing Management

Program Committee:

• Lead: Dirk Hohndel
• Carsten Munk
• Thiago Maciera
• Ashley Walker (Speaker Management)

Coordination:

• Lead: Brian Warner Sponsorships
• AJ Reed: Post Event management
• Mike Shaver: Web Management
• Dave Neary: Early Bird Events

Call for proposals

• CfP
• Draft CfP

Hyatt Space details

Link to conference area map:[1]

2nd Floor Street Level entrance

• Grand Ballroom A+B+C will be used as our Keynote room with redundant Screens/Sound in Market Street Foyer and Grand Ballroom Foyer (Seats 1300, with 100 standing in lobby spaces and feeds coming out)

Breakouts and room descriptions as follows:

• 1 Grand Ballroom A (700 theater)
• 2 Grand Ballroom B (200 cab)
• 3 Grand Ballroom C (200 cab)
• Tech Showcase will take place in Market Street Foyer and Grand Ballroom Foyer. Not to be just single table tops, requested 3 different orientations to choose from. Tea and Coffee will be available in Tech showcase area
• Registration + Welcome Kit fulfillment: Market Street Foyer and Grand Ballroom Foyer. Kits will be organized based upon gender/size, not name
• Media/Blogger Room: Regency A
• Keynote Prep Room: Regency B
• Event Office: Plaza Room

3rd floor Bay Level

• 4 Seacliff A-B (110 cab)
• 5 Seacliff C-D (110 cab)
• 6 Bayview Room A-B (200 cab)
• Platinum Meeting Rooms: Marina Room and Golden Gate room on Bay Level

4th floor Atrium Lobby Level

• All Catering Breakfast, Lunch, breaks and receptions will be held in Atrium of Hotel

This includes Garden Room A+B, 13 Views Lounge, and Hospitality Room can seat up to 1400 in this area.

• Nokia Boardroom: Boardroom A [atrium]
• Intel Boardroom: Boardroom B [atrium]

1st Floor Pacific Concourse Level

• This will all be used as Early Bird space partitioned rooms A-O (17,000 sq ft all partitionable) Saturday until Sunday evening then it will be………
• Hacker Lounge: Pacific Concourse K—O
• Meeting rooms partitioned in Pacific Concourse: A, B, C, D, E
• Gold sponsors get A and B
• Spaces F and G will be used as a meeting room bookable space

Flight Information

See MeeGo Conference Spring 2011/Flight Information

MeeGo Conference Warm-Up

The MeeGo Conference Warm-Up will include workshops catering to MeeGo application developers, and tutorials to help people get started developing for the platform. We also plan to have some fun extra-curricular activities involving building things. The warm-up sessions will be held at the Hyatt in San Francisco (the conference hotel/ conference facility) on May 21-22, the weekend before the conference begins.

We will have two tutorial sessions, and an application development workshop, running in parallel.

Because of space and equipment constraints, attendance for some of the workshops will be limited. As we get more information, we will keep you posted.

Among the topics we are planning to have hands-on tutorials for are:

• Using OBS, and distributing software via the community software distribution channel
• MeeGo developer tools
• Qt, QML and QtQuick development
• Developing, testing and deploying MeeGo software with the MeeGo SDK

We also plan to have application developer workshops on:

• Designing a better user experience
• Building software with Community OBS, and community application distribution

And we plan a fun Maker's Contest where contestants will have to use raw materials including balsa wood, paper clips, string, paper and glue to build a machine capable of launching a projectile (Trebuchet, slingshot, catapult, whatever) over a distance of ~10m. The results will be judged with a live-action Angry Birds contest.

We are still working on the contents of these sessions and who will be leading them. As we get more information, we will pass it on.

Provisional schedule

Introduction to Qt

Training course offered by Gregg Leibovitz of ICS and Thomas Perl.

Topics covered include:

• Setting up the MeeGo SDK
• Installing MeeGo on the Device
• Installing and Configurating Qt SDK
• Configuring Qt Creator
• Intro to Qt Creator
• Understanding QMake
• Building your First Application
• Introduction to PySide
• Introduction to QML
  • Elements
  • Properties and Types
  • Signals
  • Anchoring and Positioning
  • States
  • Transitions
  • Simple Animations

Harmattan for developers

Presented by Daniel Wilms

Community OBS

David Greaves, Niels Breet and Henri Bergius will take you through the basics of using Community OBS, uploading your project, getting it built and packaged automatically, fixing any build issues, and making the software available on the community software downloads site.

This will be part tutorial, part hands-on workshop, part BOF.

UX workshop

Developers are invited to turn up and present their applications to other attendees and our UX experts, and identify together areas of improvement and possible designs for presenting the same functionality to the use.

Makers contest

10 teams of 3 to 4 people will have one hour to build the best siege weapon possible for a live action Angry Birds round which will decide the winner. Trebuchet, catapult or slingshot, the weapon must be able to send an Angry Bird bean-bag into a pre-arranged structure containing evil snorting pigs. The winner will be determined by our impartial judges and comperes, Dave Neary, Alison Chaiken & Julien Fouregard.

Equipment available to teams will include: various balsa wood cuts, glue guns and glue sticks, twine, paper clips, plain brown paper and elastic bands. There may be some other surprise materials thrown in on the day, if we're feeling generous.

Introduction to MeeGo SDK

Important: You need to register in advance if you want to attend this session

The Intel AppUpSM Application Lab: MeeGo series will be in San Francisco for the MeeGo Conference Warm Up! Register now to Meet Bob Spencer from the MeeGo SDK team and members of the Intel AppUpSM developer program team to learn how to create and deploy MeeGo applications using the MeeGo SDK and the Intel AppUpTM SDK for MeeGo. Discover how to create exciting user experiences with MeeGo* and the Intel AppUpSM developer program. MeeGo promotes innovation and portability across multiple device types, such as tablets, netbooks and smartphones. Developing for MeeGo presents a great opportunity to make money and deploy your applications quickly and easily. You don't have to be attending the MeeGo Conference to attend this event!

Join us at The Hyatt Regency San Francisco Embarcadero Centre on Sunday, May 22, 2011 for one of our FREE training sessions to learn how to develop applications for MeeGo and the benefits of the Intel AppUpSM developer program. Two sessions are available to choose from:

Sunday, May 22: 9:00am - 12:30pm Sunday, May 22: 2:00pm - 5:30pm

General Agenda: • Doors open 30 minutes before each session start for check-in (check-in closes 10 minutes after start) • Session Content o Overview of the Intel AppUpSM center & Intel AppUpSM developer program o Introduction to the MeeGo SDK o Introduction to the Intel AppUpTM SDK Suite for MeeGo o Application packaging and submission • Talk to Intel engineers about your specific code & questions with an information Q&A session

Seating is limited so register today! http://appdeveloper.intel.com/events

Linux developer tools

An overview of common Linux developer tools, including git, gdb and valgrind, by timeless.

Qt development workshop

A programming problem will be presented, and attendees will have a hands-on programming lab, with amateurs and experts on hand to help you out when you get into trouble. If you'd like to help out as an assistant during this training session, please add your name here:

Qt/QML/UI experts

• Thomas Perl
• Sampo Savola

Hacker Lounge

Was a very popular activity for community members. Having it stocked with beer and snacks was perfect, and we'd love to do something similar for spring.

Ideas for fun activities

• Hike in Marin County on Mt. Tamalpais just across the Golden Gate Bridge and get great views of San Francisco (when it's not foggy). Potentially led by Alison Chaiken. Would require transportation to the trailhead from the hotel, perhaps a 45-minute drive.
• Cycle across the Golden Gate Bridge, potentially guided by Alison Chaiken. The route is pancake flat but is on a regular city street with low-speed traffic. Riding across the Bridge does require some caution on foggy days due to a wet surface. (Foggy days can occur any time of year.) I have inquired about group discounts. The bike rental is walkable from the hotel.
• The MeeGo_Conference_2010/Werewolf was popular, and we're scheming on some additional MeeGo_Conference_Spring_2011/Werewolf MeeGo Werewolf variations for 2010.
• During the fun activities of #MeeGoConf 2010, we spoke about the idea of having a full scale game during the conference. The game would involve as many participants as possible and be played from opening to closing of the conference. Based on the "Killer" game, we'll discuss the details on the MeeGo_Conference_Spring_2011/Killer page.
• Some ideas for the Maker's Contest are a parachute launcher (need to balance heaviness for the way up & lightness for the way down); building a catapult or trebuchet to throw some predefined object, building some kind of Rube Goldberg machine to accomplish an agreed task.