Maddler's Rants 'n' Raves

Some time passed since Godot arrived and I started playing with it and, yes, I have to admit I’m happy with it! It is about 2 years since when I first discovered Maemo and sounds like things are going better and better every day.
Yes, maybe something should be fixed on Nokia’s side, but (maybe?) we should look at Maemo from a different point of view, I mean the same point of view we would look at a (new) Linux distribution: still “something” needing to be fixed, but things are growing fast! And if everything will go well with Google Summer of Code we will also get some iteresting and somehow intriguing pieces of code as well. The current list of ideas:

• Ruby Maemo Bindings
• GeoClue for Maemo
• Smoove - Instant Desktop Migration Suite
• Japanese/Chinese handwriting recognition on Maemo
• Improve the phoneME JVM, to integrate well with Maemo and GPE enviroments
• Last.fm radio player
• Dasher via Maemo Device as Keyboard for PC
• Geolocation-based Transit Maps
• VPN integration that Just Works
• Enterprise-class cryptographic filesystem

Only 4 of them will get a slot for SoC (and I hope Smoove will get its slot, since I’ll mentor it), but neverthless it clearly shows how the interest is growing.

And in the past few weeks Jlbrd did what I think is a GREAT job, porting Claws-Mail to Maemo and also making it part of the “official” Claws Mail release (IMHO, one of the best mail clients around!).

Another (imho) good news is that Nokia is now member of Linux Foundation as Ari announced. I mean, if they (Nokia) will move in the right direction we could see something very interesting happening in the next months. It would be nice to see the same attitude Nokia sported with Maemo applied on other “devices". We will see.

In the meantime, I keep having fun with such a great environment and device!
Stay tuned!

Maddler • Maemo 2 comments