as for the content…
the lectures, the stalls, they were all great.
just keep them up, and I’ll be happy.

what I enjoyed was the design contests on SE’s stand.
I think some contests will be fun and good.

Secondly, the demonstration of the Radio Contralled car was fun.

other than that, I’ll love to get my hands on a t-shirt with the new lolo on it… I hope I can get one… (I’d rather have a T-shirt thank a hat with a can opener!!)

sory for the breefness of my comment!
and I seem to be just looking at the fun bits… but hey, it motivates the newbees right??

Here is another idea for the future Symbian event:

Try to make the “rubber-duck-on-robo-stilts” a real robot running the realtime Symbian OS kernel.

Then the Symbian Robot could perhaps compete against one of the existing Linux robots ( http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2717739661.html ) at the show.

BTW maybe instead of a Dodo robot competing against a Linux dinosaur robot, the robot could be an android (humanoid robot http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS5878102799.html ) just to make the competition even more fun and interesting.

+1

Maybe you can have a Bluetooth controlled Duck-mecha too? Would be a cool follow-up to the ShakerRacer truck

The single most important thing SF has to do this year is reconnect with developers. Apple and Google have shown that Symbian can no longer rely on it’s “build it and they will come” ethos, nor Nokia’s ability to shift product. I’ve seen a number of Mobile App houses start up in the last year and they’re focussing on iPhone and Android. The low cost of entry into those platforms is trumping market share.

The name may not matter so much, as long as the developers want to, and have a reason to show up. That, and lot’s of rubber-duck-on-robo-stilts squeezy freebies

I know, that to many of us that have spent days on the floor of DevExpo going over code printouts and helping others with their problems may sound ironic, but the reality is that there is one lot of people that SF _vitally_ need to attract and this is developers.

Make it so in this event and make it for real!

Smart Mobile
Future Mobile Technology
Forward mobile
etc
(with “Hosted by Symbian”)

I’ll settle for Hg-Forge, I suppose. =0)

Git-Forge features announced at the Symbian Exchange 2009:

Easy, free signing and free IDE/SDK treats for Open Source devs over Symbian.

Fast track into the SF App Warehouse for community-sponsored open source apps that have non-tech appeal (no SSH clients, please!).

Promotion of those apps into core packages that Samsung can dip into for use in their on-device portfolio.

Duncan Cragg

+1 Perfect balance of geek speak and business speak

So – let’s have:

Lots of ‘Developing on S60 for Newbies’ workshops.

Demos of genuinely exciting apps, and showing how easy they were to build using a free IDE / SDK.

And easy – and free! – to package and sign.

All supporting material available (in HTML not PDF) on the easy-to-navigate, non-corporate website.

Show off Symbian capabilities on the Omnia HD and Idou.

Can someone do a port of Clutter? Or show off Qt’s OpenGL ES 2.0 support.

Perhaps someone can finally explain ActiveObjects in a way that’s both quickly understandable and compelling?! =0)

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Less of the branding and marketing, though – that’ll scare your open source dev types off.

If you want to have a business angle, do two parallel tracks, one for geeks, one for suits.

The suits side needs to emphasise the benefits of leveraging (ha!) the open source ecosystem (kapow!).

Use Linux as the paradigm for the power of the future Open Symbian (phew!). Powering everything from huge server farms to little Android devices, Linux is incredibly agile.

Symbian will match that agility, empowering its commercial users to focus exclusively on their market differentiators (zammo!) higher up the value stack (ooh!).

Duncan Cragg