With the Nokia’s decision to join hands with Microsoft and jump into the Windows phone market, MeeGo was having the uncertain future. It was because of the nature of MeeGo project that brought great open source innovatore and geeks together to create a new ecosystem. Now there is definately a good news for them as the Linux foundation has anounced the support for a new ecosystem Tizen. Intel and Samsung will be the main contributers for Tizen. Tizen combines the best open source technologies of LiMo and Meego. The main target technology in Tizen will be HTML5 for the cross-platform compatibilities. News are also coming that Samsung’s Bada platform can be merged with Tizen.
Here Goes my FOSS 2010 Presentation Slides..
Here is the presentation which I used in FOSS 2010.
FreOffice Plug-in Ideas for FOSS 2010
FOSS 2010 is open, and NOKIA has announced some N900 for the developers who will develop some code using Qt, QML and submit it at the end of the FOSS 2010 on day 3. Here are some ideas from my presentation which you can pick and develop plug-in for FreOffice.
- Online dictionary and synonymns
- Spell checking tool
- Wikipedia lookup based on clipboard data
- Image/Media finder (from online services)
- Find document templates online
- Send as email
- Share over bluetooth
- Print over bluetooth
Have nice hack !!
My talk in FOSS 2010
Hey, I am going to give a talk in MeeGo mini conference at FOSS 2010. The talk is entitled on “Open Source Mobile Office Suite”. Here is the abstract to the topic:
“The ever increasing necessity and desire to remain connected to the network and do work while being on the move has resulted in a significant growth of interest in the applications/tools which can do editing and collaborate with other devices. While working in daily life most of the time we use office applications for taking notes, making reports and presentations. With the increase in processing power and storage capabilities of mobile devices, we need these applications to be available on our mobile devices, so that we can continue doing our tasks even when we are mobile. FreOffice is one such light weight application which provides a support to view and edit office document (Word/Presentation/Excel sheet) on Maemo/MeeGo based mobile devices. FreOffice being an open source project is attracting developers and has opened doors for the innovation in handling documents on mobile devices.”
MeeGo Conference in FOSS Bangalore
NOKIA is the company known for doing things differently. On the path of that recently I have observed NOKIA is coming out with lot of open source contributions. One of the biggest such initiative is definitely MeeGO.
FOSS is one of the biggest platform for open source developers/contributors in India. This year FOSS is organizing the developers meet from 15th Dec to 17th Dec, in Bangalore. NOKIA is the Technology sponsor for FOSS 2010 event. In the Foss, we will be listening to a lot of open source contributors and will get chance to learn from them. There are some mini conferences also which will focus on a particular area. MeeGO mini conference is one of such event in FOSS 2010. MeeGo mini conference will run all the three days. In this mini conference NOKIA is planning to have some very exciting talks, hands on and Demos on MeeGo. I am really vary excited to see the event. 
Ajay Pratap Singh Pundhir
