Your Community Calendar

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At the beginning of this year we created a calendar for community events on our wiki. Since then, the calendar has been populated with some of the key events in the industry and events that our community is organising.

The fundamental idea of the calendar is to enable you – our community – to find out about events that may be of interest to you. And more importantly for you to add to the calendar. That is why it has been implemented using Wiki technology.

If you …

  • host an event related or useful to Symbian, add the event to the calendar
  • found out about an event that may be relevant to the community why not add to it
  • if you as a member of the community talk or are present at an existing event, why not update the event page and let others know

To make this easier for you, there is a template for new calendar entries and a help page accessible from the calendar.

The more people use and collaborate around the calendar, the more useful it will be for all. Have a look, bookmark the page and add to it.

The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Symbian Runtime Space

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Contrary to some opinions, it is fairly easy to write apps for Symbian. I have wanted to share this sentiment for a while, and great opportunity has presented itself : UC Expo which is happening this week in London. My presentation, “The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Symbian Runtime Space” will be on Wednesday, 10th of March at 13:50 in the “Mobile Device and Development Showcase” theatre.
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Symbian at the UC Expo

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It’s been some time since I last wrote for the Symbian Blog. While I’ve been away we’ve done a huge amount to create an active and open community that is committed to creating and maintaining the Symbian platform. You’ll already know that we’ve successfully opened-sourced the Symbian platform, providing a completely open-source distribution with Symbian^3. Now that we are truly open, we need to push the boundaries of openness to secure the most innovative and cutting-edge features for the Symbian platform.

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Life’s pretty straight without Twisties

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I hope you all liked the new wiki extensions we gave you for Christmas - image maps, calendars and beautiful print-to PDF.

This week we added two more:

  • ToggleDisplay (a.k.a “Twisties”): hide/display text behind a (configurable) toggle link
  • TreeAndMenu: Create menus and trees using a simple nested bullet syntax – the content can even be created dynamically using the DPL extension

Enjoy – there is plenty more to come!

Mobilise your Workforce: Faster, Easier, Smarter

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Guest post by Anthony Dunn, Imago Communications Ltd

For organisations everywhere, the realities of a complex world where technological change has gained pace and transcended borders has resulted in a fundamental shift in how, where, whom and what we work with. Mobile Expo offers visitors an exciting look into the application design, development, and delivery models within the Mobile ecosystem to ensure your organisation has a substantial competitive advantage going forward in 2010.
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Must See! System Model Training Videos for Package Owners

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This is a guest post by Bob Rosenberg from Nokia.

The system model is a visualisation of the architecture of an operating system. It mixes concepts from architecture modelling and codeline management to give a single model which answers both “what does this do?” and “how do I build this?”

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Symbian Technology Council Elections Coming Soon!

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The Symbian Foundation’s technology Councils are the member-led bodies that govern the Symbian platform. A certain number of seats on the Councils become available each membership year, which runs from 1st April through 31st March.  Any Symbian member company can nominate themselves for these seats on the Councils, and they can nominate themselves for more than one Council.

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Out of Business Cards – Great Symbian Help for Inmote @MWC!

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Guest post by Rene Heuven, Inmote

Rene_Heuven_InmoteI feel Symbian again! After a turbulent year, Symbian Foundation has made a successful transition from a commercial organization into a fully and truly open source software platform that provides the richest set of APIs on smartphones. Symbian was giving away of memory sticks containing the Symbian^3 source code at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and they were in high demand. Friends and competitors (LiMo, Android and iPhone developers) took the USB sticks to learn about the new Symbian.

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Wikipedia on your Symbian device

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At SEE 2009 a conversation between Tim Holbrow and Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia) resulted in the creation of one of the hundreds of ideas that were generated at the show. The idea: make it easier to use Wikipedia on Symbian devices.

Discussing this within Symbian we saw an overlap between what was required and an app that had previously been created to improve mobile access to the Symbian developer website. So I picked up the task to create the initial application, set about adapting it to optimize for presenting Wikipedia content, text and images, in as many languages as Symbian has fonts for.

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Skype for Symbian

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We talked about this previously when we were at MWC (read our ‘Skype on Symbian’ post), and Skype have officially announced today the release of Skype for Symbian, a Skype client for Nokia smartphones based on the Symbian platform.

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