http://openwebfoundation.org/2009/05/the-open-web-foundation-is-growing-our-ranks.html

This is an initiative led by the Institute of Entrepreneurial Endeavor with the objective being to stimulate the entrepreneurial spirit which exists within everyone.

For INdT the event happened at an ideal moment as the Institute is currently implementing an innovation management system as one of its key 'pillars' of corporate entrepreneurship.

'This event was yet another way to spread our culture of innovation'

During the event there was a week long Workshop in Python Programming (Python is a programming language for mobile phones), as well as a day of talks run by members of the Institute which covered such topics as Good Techniques for Project Management, Your Role in Business Management, Agile Methods for Design and Interface Projects and Innovation and Mobility

Source... Nokia Você

Translation...Ian Lawrence

If you want to create a theme:

1. Download the design sheet. (.psd)

2. Download the guideline (optional but recommended)(.pdf).

3. Replace the images in the sheet. Note that some images are going to be resized inside Canola (like the scrollbar) and the graphic needs to be designed with that in mind. Consult the "Stretch axis" column of each image for details. Also, when replacing the images in the sheet make sure to respect the sliced areas (View > Show > Slices).

4. Save your images(File > Save For Web & Devices) using the PNG-24 preset. A dialog is going to appear asking where you wanna save the files. Select a folder and hit the save button.

5. Open the selected folder on finder/explorer/terminal/etc, you are going to see a subfolder called "images", open it. If you properly follow all the step until now, your theme's images are going to be here.

6. Compact all the archives inside this folder(zip or tar.gz). Here lies the trick, compact only the images, not the whole folder. In other words, if your open you zip package IT MUST ONLY CONTAIN IMAGE FILES.

7. Go to Theme Maker site and upload your package.

8. Enjoy your new theme

This service allows *anyone* to create (and publish if they would like to) a theme for Canola. All you need to do is read the guide (PDF), create your images,zip them up and upload them to the site. The service then handles the creation of the Debian package and offers a choice of Creative Commons licenses should you want your new theme to be submitted for inclusion on the gallery. The resulting .deb can be downloaded and installed on any Maemo powered device

The site was conceived by handful, the UI was designed by giselle, the CSS written by hugo and I did the Django and the Python work (based on a prototype made by Eduardo Fleury). It was really great working as a team and web work really lends itself to working in a distributed manner (in this case between Manaus and Recife)

The Ubuntu Golden Theme written by Marcello Mendes (rapadura) from Debian Amazonas is already in the gallery for you to download!.It is licensed under CC ATTRIBUTION NON-COMMERCIAL (by-nc)

Enjoy!

This year it will happen again on March 8 -11 in the

beautiful North East of Brazil

with the focus definitely on QT, Gnome and the 'plumbing'  of a distro.

So this came from Planet  Debian and it sort of fits with some things that I have been worrying about recently. We need to solve some big problems in the world and urgently  (global warming, population control, cancer etc) but the innovation which I see around is about putting some beeer on a beer wall or BuddyPoking someone with a ninja kick .

All well and good right, we are breaking down the walls between people, OK...I am a CAMRA real ale guy through and through too so I am good to go.. but this is not new stuff...this is not real innovation , innovation like ' shit geezer, how did you do that?'

I think this web 2.0 thing (apart from being like 'cloud computing' some marketers wet dream) is great if you are in the business of consumer goods. Let the community innovate and participate and the world turns. But what happens when we want to work out the hard stuff?

This used to be called Blue Sky research apparently when this sort of thing had a market value.... I read this too recently

Where is the Future We Were Promised?

Five years into the 20th century, Einstein was living his Annus Mirabilis. Where is our patent office today? Who is our Einstein? Are we the first generation in many years incapable of true innovation? And let’s not just talk about things as complicated as the theory of relativity. I remember complaining about the drill when I was young, and my dentist telling me that when I was grown up he would have to find another job because we would have a vaccine against cavities. Where is this vaccine against cavities? Where are the cures for catarrh and AIDS? Where is that future devoid of poverty in which robots were going to do everything for people and we were going to dedicate ourselves to art and culture?

Unfortunately, when I look around me today, during the end of 2008, I see humanity leading an unsustainable life based on technology that should already be obsolete. I believe that it is time for us to engage in some serious self-criticism and start to invest in science again, because the list of unsolved problems grows longer every day. If we continue on like this, not only are we not going to have a future, but we are going to end up without a present.

This is I think too negative but sometimes I wonder if my generation will just be remembered as the last one before some global 'gaia' of collective intelligence is harnessed and we will ne talked about by future generations as those old geezers in black and white chase films from yesteryear moving really quickly but going absolutely nowhere

In the Karachi district of Lyari, hundreds of workers, including teenage children, earn their livelihoods by dismantling the electronic scrap and extracting valuable components such as copper to sell.

The photo story below by Robert Knoth reveals what happens to that e-waste and the people who try to scrape a living from it. This is an insight into the personal cost of e-waste.

It is good to know that Nokia is innovating in this area. It does quite well on e-waste issues with a comprehensive take-back programme that spans 85 countries providing almost 5000 collection points for end-of-life mobile phones (it has one of the best take-back programmes in India for example) However, its overall recycling rate of 3-5% is relatively poor and needs to be focused on.

Other pluses for Nokia are that it does very well on toxic chemical issues, launching new models free of PVC since the end of 2005 and aiming to have all new models free of brominated flame retardants and antimony trioxide by the end of 2009. Nokia’s overall energy score is boosted by sourcing 25% of its total energy needs from renewable sources in 2007 and a target to increase use of renewables to 50% by 2010. Nokia also scores top marks (doubled) for all its mobile phone chargers meeting Energy Star and exceeding the Energy Star requirements by 30-90%.

Where

Why

Estou achando um pouco parado o grupo, em questão de contribuição para a comunidade. Minha sugestão é que, seja marcado pelo menos um encontro por mês, em um final de semana (local a ser definido), para desenvolvermos algum projeto parado, retirar bugs do gnome, desenvolvermos nossas próprias idéias

What

How

bzr branch lp:gasp-games

import sys
from qt import *

class HelloButton(QPushButton):

   def __init__(self, *args):
       apply(QPushButton.__init__, (self,) + args)
       self.setText("Hello World")

class HelloWindow(QMainWindow):

   def __init__(self, *args):
       apply(QMainWindow.__init__, (self,) + args)
       self.button=HelloButton(self)
       self.setCentralWidget(self.button)

def main(args):
   app=QApplication(args)
   win=HelloWindow()
   win.show()
   app.connect(app, SIGNAL("lastWindowClosed()"),
               app, SLOT("quit()"))
   app.exec_loop()

if __name__=="__main__":
   main(sys.argv)

Final Note

He was up for it and set to work with Inkscape, GIMP and Debian.

Check it out The deb is available here]]> http://www.ianlawrence.info/random-stuff/packaging-web-applications-in-debian $ tar xfz webapp-1.0.tgz;cd webapp-1.0;dh_make_webapp vern Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:53:10 -0500 Conferences Debian Developer Django policy Modern apps are web based but we have no real standardized way to package them. Partly this is because Javascript is still in the 'vote with your feet' stage of standardization but also because of the complexity involved in the client/server exchange (i.e sorry dude, the code runs where again?)
So what best practices do we currently have in Debian?

db-config-common

This package presents a policy and implementation for managing various databases used by applications included in Debian packages. I have just proposed an integration of django evolution into this package. This will allow us to track changes in our Django models over time, and to update the database to reflect those changes.

Javascript Packaging

This is provided in Debian by the package javascript-common and it allows javascript libraries to be installed in

/usr/share/javascript

/javascript/${package}/*.js

The Debian Webapps Policy Document

/usr/share/PACKAGE/www

/usr/lib/cgi-bin/PACKAGE

/usr/lib/PACKAGE (architecture-dependant)

/usr/share/PACKAGE (architecture-independant)

/usr/share/PACKAGE

/usr/share/PACKAGE

/etc/PACKAGE

/etc/PACKAGE

Specific Requirements for Programming Languages

this can be roughly broken up in template inheritance terms  the following areas:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="maemo.css" />
    <title>{% block title %}Maemo Main Site{% endblock %}</title>
</head>

<body>

<div id="header">
  {% block header %}
        <ul>
            <li><a href="/intro/">Intro</a></li>
            <li><a href="/downloads/">Downloads</a></li>       
            <li><a href="/community/">Community</a></li>        </ul>
    {% endblock %}
    </div


  {% endblock %}

       <div id="content"> 


           {% block content %}
           {% endblock %}
       </div>

       <div id="right_sidebar"

        {% block right_sidebar %}
        {% endblock %}
       </div>

 <div id="footer">
  {% block footer %}
  {% endblock %}
 </div>

</body>
</html>

{% extends "base.html" %}
 {% block title %} Maemo Intro 
 {% endblock %}
 
{% block content %}
   This is the introduction to the Maemo site
{% endblock %}
  
{% block right_sidebar %}
   This is the Introduction sidebar with a nice video introduction to maemo
{% endblock %}

The {% extends %} tag is the key here. It tells the template engine that this template “extends” another template. When the template system evaluates this template, first it locates the parent — in this case, “base.html”.

base.html 
base_intro.html
base_download.html
base_community.html

deb http://pkg-fso.alioth.debian.org/debian unstable main
deb-src http://pkg-fso.alioth.debian.org/debian unstable main

A merge of this repository, Debian experimental and Debian unstable can be used for debootstrap as follows.

Please note that this is a hack and might not work properly

 cdebootstrap --allow-unauthenticated -d sid /mnt/target http://people.debian.org/~nomeata/pkg-fso

You may need to activate experimental in your sources.list

• zhone: The demo UI
• zhone-session: Init scripts to start zhone on system start.
• frameworkd: System daemon providing most phone features via dbus. 
  
• gsm0710muxd: GSM multiplexer daemon

After waiting (and waiting) in the queue to check in, when I arrived at the counter I saw that they were writing the tickets out by hand. Apparently the system was 'in maintenance' although this could just have meant that it had crashed given the amount of head shaking and so on which was going on and it left me feeling a bit nervous about the flight to be honest.

The chaos with the airlines in South America shows no signs of improvement and so all the Brazilian flights into Buenos Aires were delayed. This was OK though. Me and Bdale stood around holding a Debian sign and waited for the rest of the developers to show up. We got talking about his hobby of rocket flying and apparently he has launched one up to 14,000 feet which is pretty impressive I reckon. His latest project will use a different fuel mixture based in part on sugar and he hopes he can get to 18000 feet. Good luck with that.

After Uncle Steve's excellent keynote speech (I found out that all of Debian Lenny will be available on a single Blue Ray disk!!) I bumped into Jacob at lunch. The conversation inevitably moved onto Tor and anonymity online and told me about a book that he is reading. Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier by Julian Assange is about the WANK worm crisis in NASA.

Next to the RTM worm, WANK is the most famous worm in the history of computer networks. And it is the first major worm bearing a political message, in this case against nuclear power (WORMS AGAINST NUCLEAR KILLERS).It was a worm that attacked DEC VMS computers over the DECnet in 1989 and written into the source code were instructions not to propagate in DEC area 48 which is New Zealand (at that time New Zealand was a nuclear free zone). It also greeted NASA's Galileo flight engineers with the words "You talk of times of peace for all, and then prepare for war." as they logged in. (Galileo controversially used 24 kg of plutonium as an energy source)
With WANK, life imitated art, since the term computer 'worm' came from John Brunner's sci-fi novel, The Shockwave Rider, which is about a politically motivated worm.

Can't wait for tomorrow!

Also in Manaus we have been running some training courses recently at Fucapi, a sort of Educational Institute like a University. I was asked to run a Python course and as part of it I came across a python library called GASP (Graphics API for Students of Python). This *rocks* !. By the end of the lesson all the students (with little or no python experience) had created and customized a Pong game.

I could not believe how easy it was to explain the graphics API to them. It is a easy step from GASP to Pygame and to the creation of games for mobile devices.

So the seed has been planted and things grow rapidly here in the forest!

Debian Conference is the annual Debian developers meeting, an event filled with coding parties, discussions and workshops - all of them highly technical in nature
There is also the usual day trip and a chance to play the Assassins game apparently!

While I am there I hope to do some work on the Debian Eee Project stuff which is about making Debian work optimally on the Eee including support for the later 901 and other Intel Atom-based models (1000 and 1000H).

This is gonna rock...or rather tango so hard.