MAG:Templates

2008-11-14T09:36:32Z

69.244.211.19:

[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates Templates] are an important part of any good wiki. They help tag, categorize, identify, stylize and format articles, and improve code readability and clarity, and generally make life easier for everybody.

To that end, I'd like to focus efforts here on creating and maintaining a set of templates for maemowiki.

== Tasks ==

* Develop guidelines for the creation, categorization, style and format of new templates.
** Ensure existing templates comply with these guidelines.
* Figure out what templates we need (this is a very fluid task that will likely never be completed).
* Create those templates.

=== Open/Closed table, justification, and petition templates ===

We need to put together templates for the open/closed-source plan outlined in the [[Increasing transparency]] page.

* We need templates for:
** Individual packages (or package sets, as, say, alarmd and alarmtool can probably both be filed under alarmd), their source-state and (if closed) justification for that state.
*** Should these templates be set up as "justification tables" to be inserted into larger articles or as individual articles?
** Petition templates for requesting that a closed package be opened.

=== Standard Wikipedia template set ===

* Equivalent to "This article has poor language/grammar, please help fixing it."--[[User:qgil|qgil]] 07:53, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

[[Category:Community]]

Task:Remarkable community projects

2008-10-15T11:59:18Z

69.244.211.19: /* Proposals for Fremantle Stars */ Cleanup, new entry

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''This is a subtask of [[Task:Defining maemo]] and is coordinated by Dave Neary.''

There are hundreds of community projects around Maemo, but some are especially remarkable, providing a unique contribution to the project.

Getting a list of these projects would help to
* Improve their quality and promote them as ''ready to primetime''.
* Highlight to externals some of the amazing stuff the Maemo platform can offer.
* Bring attention, testing, contributions, new users to them.
* Indicate to Nokia what is really worth promoting in their Maemo related activities.
* Cheer up the ego of promoters and contributors. :)

==Criteria==
Propose criteria to select projects.
* '''Alive''': Maintained regularly and available in the last stable release.
* '''Open''': community feedback and contributions are part of the project - open source is a very good factor but not a must.
* '''Stable''': feature set complete, installs flawlessly, works, doesn't harm the system, secure.
* '''Finger/thumb UI''': stylus to be required only in exceptional and evident cases (e.g. drawing apps).
* '''Decent design''': visually attractive and/or simple interface that works just as expected.
* '''maemo.org active''': available in extras, complete information page in Downloads.
* '''Non commercial''': Not developed by Nokia or commercial partners.

=== Proposals for Fremantle Stars ===
List your proposals below. Add your comments supporting/against. Provide links to their pages at http://maemo.org/downloads to get more information, see screenshots and try them out.

==== Release quality ====

* [http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/maemopadplus/ Maemopad+]: pressure-sensitive sketching, available in Extras, now in development again with focus on fixing Usability issues and finger-friendliness
*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/maemo-mapper Maemo Mapper] [[Image:Star.png]]: Most downloaded application for Maemo. Best map application. Can interact with lots of different mapping sites, including OpenStreetmap.
*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/numptyphysics Numpty Physics] [[Image:Star.png]]: This game is educational, hard, fun. Made for the stylus.
* [http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/scummvm/ ScummVM]: Point-and-click adventures are great for touchscreens, some free-as-in-beer games are available (Beneath a Steel Sky, etc..)
* [http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/gpodder/ gPodder: Finger-friendly UI, highlights the Internet aspect of the tablets (download podcasts); regular releases, many Maemo-specific UI changes; performance issues are worked on; tablet-related podcasts exist (example: [http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=27204&cmd=tc]) - downloading podcasts directly on the mobile device is a thing that you can with Nokia's tablets and gPodder, but not with iPhone/iPod touch right now
*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/xournal Xournal] [[Image:Star.png]]: A great notes/sketch utility. One of ''few'' apps that utilize the pressure sensitivity of the screen! Invaluable to create and annotate PDF documents on a pocket computer.

==== Alpha/Beta quality ====
*[http://garage.maemo.org/projects/maemo-barcode/ maemo-barcode]: Alpha quality, could be a very cool application with some integration and interface development.

== The Best of Maemo Applications ==
'''Please do not list new proposals directly here'''. These are projects that accomplish most of the criteria above. They be available in the Maemo 4.1 extras repository and offer a Download page in maemo.org. Add you comment if you think any of these candidates is not fit enough for the top selection, or belong to a different category. Apps marked with [[Image:Star.png]] appear now [http://maemo.org/downloads/featured/OS2008/25/ in the list of featured Maemo applications].

===Born for Maemo===
Remarkable projects targetting primarily the Maemo platform.
*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/canola2/ Canola2] [[Image:Star.png]]: Canola is a media consumer: photos, music, videos...local or remote, you name it.
*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/maemo-mapper Maemo Mapper] [[Image:Star.png]]: Most downloaded application for Maemo. Best map application. Can interact with lots of different mapping sites, including OpenStreetmap.
*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/maemo-wordpy Maemo WordPy] [[Image:Star.png]]: Blogging software that hooks to WordPress and Blogger accounts, allows image uploads, post creating and editing, tagging. Especially notable for its finger-friendly menu.
*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/mediabox/ MediaBox] [[Image:Star.png]]: A nice, simple UI for viewing photos and movies. Not as 'bare-bones' as Mplayer, not as 'tricked-out' as Canola2.
*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/mytube/ mYTube] [[Image:Star.png]]: An youtube browsing/downloading/playing application.
*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/numptyphysics Numpty Physics] [[Image:Star.png]]: This game is educational, hard, fun. Made for the stylus.
*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/vagalume Vagalume] [[Image:Star.png]]: Last.fm is my favourite music site, and Vagalume is my favourite Last.fm client.

===Very nice ports===
Remarkable projects successfully ported to Maemo.
*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/mplayer/ MPlayer] [[Image:Star.png]]: Simple UI, provides the best playback performance for mpeg4/divx/xvid video on Nokia 770/N8x0.
*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/evince/ Evince] [[Image:Star.png]]: Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. It currently supports pdf, postscript, djvu, tiff and dvi.
*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/ines/ iNES] [[Image:Star.png]], [http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/fmsx/ fMSX] [[Image:Star.png]], [http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/colem/ ColEm] [[Image:Star.png]], [http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/speccy/ Speccy] [[Image:Star.png]], [http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/vgba/ VGBA] [[Image:Star.png]] - all fms's emulators - great ports of his original ones.
*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/xournal Xournal] [[Image:Star.png]]: A great notes/sketch utility. One of ''few'' apps that utilize the pressure sensitivity of the screen! Invaluable to create and annotate PDF documents on a pocket computer.

===Outstanding utilities===
Remarkable projects successful in a focused mission.
*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/advanced-backlight/ Advanced Backlight] [[Image:Star.png]]: Replaces the default Volume and Brightness applets with a unified applet that also provides rotation orientation selection.
*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/erminig Erminig] [[Image:Star.png]]: Allows a two-way sync between Google Calendars and the GPE calendar on the N810.
*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/load-applet/ Load Applet] [[Image:Star.png]]: Because being able to see when/why the system becomes slow makes a huge difference in user experience.
*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/statusbarclock/ Large StatusBar Clock] [[Image:Star.png]]: A configurable digital clock for the statusbar.
*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/maemo-recorder Maemo Recorder] [[Image:Star.png]]: Turn your N8X0 into a dictaphone. Very useful.
*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/mirage/ Mirage] [[Image:Star.png]]: Opens many file formats; allows for simple photo editing on the tablet.
*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/mogg/ mogg] [[Image:Star.png]]: Although not as ideal a solution as DSP-side decoding, the best we've got at the moment.
*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/omweather/ OMWeather] [[Image:Star.png]]: Critical app. When this didn't work for a whole day after the Diablo release, I had to look outside!
*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/personal-menu/ Personal Menu] [[Image:Star.png]]: Sidebar plugin, customizable menu for launching up to 36 installed applications or arbitrary commands.
*[http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/worldtv99/ WorldTV99] [[Image:Star.png]]: TVs around the world on your tablet. Best Edutainment without monthly fee

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