N9 Hackathon

• Sat/Sun 8. - 9. Oktober 2011
• Location: Metalab Vienna
• contact info: thp
• Hacks in/on/around/for the Nokia N9
• Catering sponsored by Nokia Austria

More details

• Blog Announcement, meego.com forum post
• Mailing list announcement
• Some N9s will be available on location for development and testing purposes
• If you have a N950 or N900, bring it (we can deploy most apps on them too!)
• You don't need a device to participate - you can deploy and test onto the test devices
• We will have some NFC Tags we can use for experimenting/developing

List of people who come

Coming from abroad / sponsored accomodation (bold = required nights):

• Tom Hutchinson (firstname.lastname zonica.com) -- FriSat, SatSun
• Timothy Kist (zboarda gmail) -- FriSat, SatSun
• Marius Gedminas (gedmin.as) -- FriSat, SatSun
• Rodrigo Linfati (rlinfati gmail) -- SatSun
• Neal H. Walfield (firstname@lastname.org) -- FriSat, SatSun

No accomodation (locals, couchsurfers, etc..):

• thp
• kelvan
• merlin1991
• Horrendus
• Gregor (gregor at ediwo.com)
• Consti
• Lukas Hetzenecker (LuHe)
• Dorian

• feel free to add yourself to this list with some way of contacting you

Projects

Please add your projects here (with a link if possible) that you plan to work on during the weekend - feel free to join existing projects:

• QML UI + Harmattan package for gotoVienna: kelvan, thp
• NFC tags: thp
• Improvements to sowatch: thp
• QML UI + Harmattan package for Quassel2Go: merlin1991
• Porting packages to use Woodchuck: NealWalfield, thp (merging Woodchuck patches into gPodder)
• Improve libmygpo-qt (used in Nokia Podcasts): Horrendus
• Open Mobile Suite server application for the N9: Lukas Hetzenecker (LuHe)
• Porting of MeeGo to other devices (Snapdragon; HTC Desire HD) / Writing QML applications for Android phones Lukas Hetzenecker (LuHe)
• TweetaTag - NFC + Twitter Mashup: Tom Hutchinson + tim
• QML UI + Harmattan package for GTimeLog: Marius Gedminas
• Improvements to Google Latitude Updater (Interface, code clean up, etc ). rlinfati
• LightsOutClone - A simple lights out game with an online leaderboard: Tom Hutchinson + Tim

Schedule

Friday

• 20:00 - We'll meet up at Metalab and then go sightseeing/into the city

Saturday - First Hackathon day

• 09:00 - Kick-Off
• 09:30 - N9 Device Overview by Karl Pletschko of Nokia Austria
• 10:00 - N9 Development Overview and Q&A by Attila Csipa of Nokia Developer
• 11:00 - Hack away!
• ...
• 18:00 - Presentation of results - Demo Time! + Lightning Talks
• 19:00 - Open End

Sunday - Second Hackathon day

• 09:00 - Start of Day 2
• 09:30 - Python development on the N9(50) by Thomas Perl
• 10:00 - Efficient bandwidth and energy use with Woodchuck by Neal Walfield
• 11:00 - Hack away!
• ...
• 17:00 - Presentation of results - Demo Time! + Lightning Talks
• 18:00 - PyUGAT will have a meetup in Metalab: October 2011 Meetup of PyUGAT - Hackathon attendees (and others) are very welcome! :)