November 2007

Meeting Announcement

The November Meeting is on... we'll be having it this coming Wednesday at 6:30PM at Mozilla's offices in Mountain View.

1981 Landings Drive, Building K
Mountain View, CA 94043-0801

This month I'll be giving a brief presentation on downloading and configuring tools and software to make a stock Xubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) installation work as a development platform for the ConsoleLCD-based myPhone prototype.

Topics include:

• what packages to download
• how to evoke the BUILD scripts
• how to configure Eclipse to make myPhone development a breeze

I've build both an "install script" to automate the process and developed a VMWare image with all the tools required to complete development of a base-level phone GUI for the ConsoleLCD. I'll be bringing a few DVDs with the latest release of the VMWare image to share.

And as always, there will be the usual business networking and technical brainstorming before and after the presentation. It's no secret that the Mozilla team has been putting more effort into the mobile space recently, so this is a great opportunity to mingle and discuss techniques for compiling software designed for the desktop into a mobile Linux platform.

Plus, the good people of the Mozilla Corporation are buying us Pizza! (Thanks MozFolk!)

The official announcement can be found on the events calendar at:

http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=msh.mobile%40gmail.com

Meeting Minutes

• The meeting started as usual, with a "social networking" and general technical brainstorming. For my money, getting face-time with other mobile geeks is at least as valuable as the presentation this month.
• And... it seemed like we had a few fewer people than usual. But... that's fine: more pizza for fewer people!
• This month's presentation was basically "How to setup a Linux environment for myPhone development." At some point in the near future, we'll have a link to a Google or YouTube Video with the presentation.
• Also... lotsa talk about the recent Android release. You might have seen some bits of this on the mailing list.

(if you were there, feel free to add your comments here!)

(also... if you took pix at the meeting and want to share them, upload them here or send me an email at msh dot mobile at gmail dot com.)

• Android - An Open Handset Alliance Project http://code.google.com/android/