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

["David \"Lefty\" Schlesinger" <lefty access-company com>]

Only two S's in "Schlesinger", not in a row. =D


On 10/4/09 4:17 AM, "Dave Neary" <dneary gnome org> wrote:

> 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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