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N9 Hackathon – Metalab Vienna, October 8th/9th 2011

Here is a roundup of the N9 Hackathon from Metalab:
The N9 Hackathon took place at the Metalab in Vienna, Austria in October 2011. This video gives you a short overview of where we were doing during this productive weekend 🙂 Thanks to Nokia Austria for supporting and sponsoring this event, and to the Metalab for providing a great venue 🙂
 

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

 

Photos, Videos, Blogs

  • Photos: thp’s photo set, add link to your photos here
  • Videos: thp’s video, add link to your videos here
  • Blogs: Marius’ review, add link to your blog post here

Results, Source code

List of participants

Coming from abroad / sponsored accomodation:

  • Tom Hutchinson
  • Timothy Kist
  • Marius Gedminas
  • Rodrigo Linfati
  • Neal H. Walfield

Locals / no accomodation:

  • thp
  • kelvan
  • merlin1991
  • Horrendus
  • Gregor (gregor at ediwo.com)
  • Lukas Hetzenecker (LuHe)
  • Dorian
  • maarten
  • albert
  • stif (stif at gmx.at)
  • add yourself if you were here

Projects and presentations

Saturday

 

  • QML UI + Harmattan package for gotoVienna: kelvan, 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): Lukas Hetzenecker (LuHe)
  • QML UI + Harmattan package for GTimeLog: Marius Gedminas
  • Improvements to Google Latitude Updater (Interface, code clean up, etc…): rlinfati
  • Magic Emulator for people without NFC (or friends) Forever Alone (Unlock angry birds levels): rlinfati
  • NFC tags, sound effects and networking: Tom Hutchinson, Tim Kist
  • UDPsend slightly extended hello world to send out UDP packets on Button Press (QML UI & C++ class binding): stif

Sunday

  • QML UI + Harmattan package for gotoVienna: kelvan, thp
  • Porting packages to use Woodchuck: NealWalfield, thp (merging Woodchuck patches into gPodder)
  • QML UI + Harmattan package for GTimeLog: Marius Gedminas
  • Improvements to Google Latitude Updater (Interface, code clean up, etc..): rlinfati
  • Magic Emulator for people without NFC (or friends) Forever Alone (Unlock angry birds levels): rlinfati
  • Improvements to sowatch: thp
  • LightsOutClone – A simple lights out game with an online leaderboard: Tom Hutchinson, Tim Kist

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 – Talk: N9 Device Overview by Karl Pletschko of Nokia Austria
  • 10:00 – Talk: N9 Development Overview and Q&A by Attila Csipa of Nokia Developer
  • 11:00 – Hack away!
  • 19:00 – “10 minutes later”: Presentation of results – Demo Time!
  • 20:00 – More hacking 🙂
  • 22:30 – Lazzor/RepRap demo + tour with Wizard
  • 23:00 – Dinner at Centimeter I

Sunday – Second Hackathon day

  • 09:00 – Start of Day 2
  • 09:40 – Talk: Python development teaser on the N9(50) by Thomas Perl
  • 10:20 – Talk: Efficient bandwidth and energy use with Woodchuck by Neal Walfield
  • 11:30 – Hack away!
  • 14:00 – Lunch at Il Sestante
  • 15:00 – Finishing touches – hack, hack, hack..
  • 16:30 – Presentation of results – Demo Time!
  • 18:00 – PyUGAT meetup: October 2011 Meetup of PyUGAT

 

 
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