Introduction to Maemo5 as a Development Enviroment |
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| Speaker Name |
Amit Sethi |
| Organization |
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| Type |
FOSS Talk (Main session) |
| Scope |
Technical |
| Abstract |
The Presentation will basically talk about developing for Maemo5 especially for beginners . It will talk about the kind of benefits maemo5 and n900 as a device gives to the developer . The reasons for developing for mobile platform . Other options for linux based mobile development.The forward path for maemo . The ease/difficulty of porting applications from maemo to symbian . Maemo5 vs iphone as development environment |
| Speaker Profile |
He is a Python developer with around 1 year to 1.5 years of experience working python . During this he tried his hand at various things ,web development using django ,gtk based applications. He made a few small contributions to FOSS during this time and also promoted the idea of using python in his college by example.In 2009 he participated in Google Summer of Code for Maemo working on maemo5(fremantle) application. He developed a barcode reader and Shopping Assistant called shop-mate for maemo5. In Novemeber I shall start working as a Research Assistant at IITB for the FOSSEE project. |
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