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Open Coral – users and projects

By On January 1, 2012 · 17 Comments · In dashboard, Ecosystem, network, Open Coral, Qt, research

Here’s some initial ideas for the database structure regarding several tables/objects such as user, projects, blog and mailing list messages. Note that this is just first iteration and most likely will contain oddities and fails (in multiple levels). Let it be just a starting point for future ideas. Below is a database defined with a [...]

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Year 2011 – ends and beginnings

By On December 31, 2011 · 13 Comments · In community, Ecosystem, finland, Hackers, hackerspace, LDP, MeeGo, meego network finland, Qt, Ultimaker, Uncategorized

At first I was not going to write about what big and small events took place 2011 in my life, what I participated in and so on. Then I thought why not. It will offer me a chance to sob and joy So, here are some events, beginnings and ends that took place 2011.

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Reuniting hackerminded Tampere

By On September 19, 2011 · 12 Comments · In community, Ecosystem, finland, Hackers, hackerspace, MeeGo, meego network finland, open source, Qt, Uncategorized

Tampere has a lot of great activity concerning open source, hacker spirit, talent, determination and creativity. I’ve been lucky, since I’ve been involved in many of them (and still am). A lot of activities are taking place in parallel in wide variety of communities. Tampere has hosted a lot of big (in Finnish scale) and [...]

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Network Programmers and Switchers

By On August 25, 2011 · 17 Comments · In community, Ecosystem, Intel, MeeGo, nokia, Qt, research, Understand

I’ve been a fan of Castells[1] ever since I read his trilogy The Information Age [2][3][4]. When I started to think about my PhD around a year ago about open source ecosystems, I stumbled upon Castells latest theories in a great book “Communication Power”[5]. His theory of networks and communication inspired me and I decided [...]

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Developers – refers to what?

By On August 18, 2011 · 16 Comments · In Ecosystem, MeeGo, Participate, Qt, research, Uncategorized, Understand

Discussions around (open source and other) ecosystems and communities often include word ‘developer‘. Developer does this and that, developers are part of the community, developers need tools, they create apps, etc. Evidently, the word ‘developer’ refers to wide scale of roles and functions. I’ve been doing my PhD research about open source ecosystems and interviewed [...]

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Joint local development

By On May 10, 2011 · 22 Comments · In community, MeeGo, meego network finland, network, Qt

Tampere MeeGo Network started with strong interest both from network members and companies. First 4-5 meetups gathered 40 to 50 participants. However, TMN has lost some of it’s attraction lately. Partly that is due to MeeGo Summit FI which took a lot of energy from other activities, since most members were involved as volunteer organizers. [...]

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Meegathon, Quadricopter & MeeGo Summit FI

By On January 22, 2011 · 35 Comments · In MeeGo, meego network finland, Qt, suomi

An ocean of ideas

In the early stages when we were thinking about the MeeGo Summit FI content, an idea of hackathon kind of competition came up. Obviously some of us checked out what kind of settings, ideas, rules etc others have generated. Multiple ideas emerged and were tossed around in the community. [...]

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