Re: Team updates needed for the 2009 Q3 GNOME Quarterly Report

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi all,

I just sent this update for the quarter from July to September. I am
sure I have missed some stuff - can people help fill in the gaps, please?

Thanks!
Dave.

Dave Neary wrote:
> Mobile Team Q3 report:
> 
> GNOME Mobile was present in a number of events this quarter:
> * OSiM World, Amsterdam, September 15-16 - One of the premier
> conferences for mobile technology and free software. GNOME Mobile was
> well represented, with keynote presentations from Nokia, LiMo and Intel
> presenting their GNOME Mobile-based platforms, and from Lefty
> Schlessinger and Dave Neary, proposing best practices for building
> commercial products on free software projects. GNOME Mobile participants
> Intel, Novell, Nokia, Igalia and CodeThink were exhibitors, and Samsung,
> LiMo, ACCESS, Collabora and Lanedo were also out in force at the conference.
> * Open World Forum, Paris, October 1-2 - Dave Neary presented GNOME
> Mobile as part of the FLOSS Mobility track of this conference, attended
> by over 1400 people.
> 
> A number of GNOME-based devices have been announced or released this
> quarter - much of the excitement concerned the Moblin v2 release, and
> the announcement of the Nokia N900, a mobile phone & internet tablet
> based on Maemo 5 (Fremantle). At OSiM the LiMo Foundation also announced
> the forthcoming release of a number of GNOME-based phones.
> 
> The GNOME 2.28 and GTK+ 2.18 releases contained some interesting GNOME
> Mobile related news. GTK+ 2.18 now supports client-side windows, making
> the rendering of GTK+ widgets in Clutter more straightforward, and
> WebKit greatly improved its accessibility support. Clutter, GUPnP and
> PulseAudio were officially added to the GNOME Mobile release set for 2.28.



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Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
dneary gnome org