Na próxima Quinta-feira, 22 de Outubro, começa a edição deste ano da Conferência Latino Americana de Software Livre – Latinoware 2009, e nós estaremos lá! =)
Cerca de 3800 pessoas estão inscritas para o evento e acredito que será um grande encontro com outros desenvolvedores, pessoas que conheço apenas por IRC ou e-mail, chance de conseguir parceiros para o Qt Labs Americas em outros países da América Latina, e claro, aprender e conhecer novas coisas.
Aprender e também ensinar! =) Se você olhar a programação do evento, notará que alguns colegas farão apresentações lá. Entre eles, Artur de Souza (MoRpHeuz) apresentará uma atualizada versão de sua palestra sobre Plasma Netbook (incluindo uma demonstração bem legal =). Já Caio Marcelo e Eduardo Fleury tratarão sobre novas possibilidades para o desenvolvimento de interfaces gráficas em Qt e KDE. Ainda temos nosso colega importado Kenneth Christiansen, que falará sobre QtWebkit.
No último dia (Sábado, 24 de Outubro) Jesus Sanchez-Palencia e eu ministraremos um minicurso sobre o que há de novidade no Qt 4.6. Assim, pessoas interessadas no desenvolvimento com Qt e também KDE terão uma grande oportunidade de aprendizado, pois existem outros 2 cursos no programa, ministrados pelos colegas do Live Blue, além é claro de poder ter contato com outros membros da comunidade KDE que estarão por lá =)
Além dos já mencionados, destaco também a apresentação que Ana Cecília (annieC) fará sobre um estudo de usabilidade em projetos de software livre.
Aos que forem para o Latinoware, nos vemos lá! Aos que não puderem comparecer, fiquem atentos que em breve teremos notícias.
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Next Thursday, October 22nd begins the 6th edition of the Latin American Free Software Conference – Latinoware and we are going to be there =)
About 3900 people are already registered for the event and personally I expect a great opportunity to meet people, some of them I only know from IRC or mailing lists, maybe new partners for Qt Labs Americas in other countries of Latin America =) and also a chance to learn new things.
Learn and teach a little! =) If you take a look in the conference’s program you will see that some colleages are going to speak there. Artur de Souza (MoRpHeuz) will present an updated version of his talk about Plasma Netbook (including a cool demonstration =). In Caio Marcelo’s and Eduardo Fleury’s talk, the attendants will see what are the new possibilities in graphical interfaces development with Qt (and for KDE). Another openBossa speaker is Kenneth Christiansen with a presentation about QtWebkit.
People interested in learn how to develop with Qt and KDE will have a great opportunity because there are 2 courses by the guys of Live Blue. In the last day (Saturday October,24th) Jesus Sanchez-Palencia and me are going to head a course on the new Qt 4.6 APIs .
Besides the mentioned ones, Ana Cecília (annieC) will talk about an usability study on FOSS.
So, if you are going to Foz do Iguaçú, see you there! =) And if you won’t go, stay tuned for the news.
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You may have noticed that Qt is being ported to S60, and as you can read here, daily builds are available as technology preview since the end of September. At first, there are only MS Windows installers, but Lizardo did a great job collecting and writing patches and instructions to make it possible to develop with Qt for S60 on Linux.
To ease this process, I wrote a small script that does almost the same described in Lizardo’s post, with some new pseudo features. It needs some improvements, the known ones are marked with #XXX – contributions are welcome!
It consists in 2 files, the script and a config file where the user can customize the directories where things will be installed, the directory of the downloaded files, the version of S60 that will be used. Initially it’s ready for S60 3rd edition FP2 and S60 5th edition (Check here the version of your target device), etc.
Running the script, the first step shows the URLs to files you have to download, but need login or other kind of interaction with the website. The script is a nice guy, when it’s possible “he” asks if you allow him to open those URLs in your default browser =)
The script then downloads other files that are direct accessible and the installation begins. If everything goes right, in the end your environment will be ready for Qt-S60 development.
Wanna try? Download a it here or git clone it:
git clone git://littlechina.org/anselmo/setupQtS60env
That’s it =)
ToDo:
- Simplify updates of Qt-S60 in a environment already in use.
- Solve the #XXX in the script
- Probably there are other things that I don’t remember now =)
- UPDATE: 2009-10-17: There are some issues in qmake when using DEPLOYMENT
- UPDATE2: 2009-10-19: The old daily builds aren’t available anymore, a message there says that they “back tonight hopefully”
- UPDATE3: 2009-10-20: Builds are back =)
- UPDATE4: 2009-11-01: The gnupoc patch for Qt-S60 needs to be uptaded =/ .
- Hopefully it’s going to save us =) http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2009/10/28/a-new-symbian-toolchain-for-linux/
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