http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog Rants about Games, Mobility and Interaction design Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:52:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After a lot of work (mostly of convincing people of the importance of open sourcing it) we are now able to release Canola2 full code with GPL v3. You Can read Etrunko's post about the release: here and the code is located in our code repository: http://code.openbossa.org/ http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/maemo-dev/we-did-it-canola-is-open-source The year is over, another one is about to start, and even after being blessed for not being forced to listen to the Brazilian version of John Lennon's end of the year anthem, I think there's quite a lot of other incredible things to remember about this year. Canola2 : the ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/2008-the-full-commit The Summit ended yesterday, We are waiting a couple of minutes to get the taxi to the airport. Tired but incredible satisfied. These days were the perfect opportunity to get to know a lot of people that I only knew through the web, and man... having a face on the ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/maemo-dev/maemo-summit-2008-just-great Hi, I hate when I need to excuse myself. Specially when it's about delays. It happened in the first release of Canola2, and it is happening now. Canola should be out in august and we are reading to a middle sep. release that I am not confortable with. Reasons (I also ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/maemo-dev/canola2-beta10-new-carman-release-plan We don't want to offend or look like a nerdy-ugly-only-boy-band So Me, Etrunko, Aloisio, Glaubert and Marcio are almost Berlin, excited for this week's agenda: Osim and Maemo summit. Our main goal there will be of course the Summit, and I personally expect to not only know a couple of virtual ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/maemo-dev/on-our-way-to-berlin But it was written after, and it's way clearer and more on the topic than what I was able to express in my 10 minutes writing : http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/01/free-software-usability If you read the past post, please take your time to go through the items. This is by far some of the most arguments ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/this-should-be-on-the-post-about-usability-and-opensourcefree-software So Glauber's entry was selected as the new logo for the Maemo.org community. I am of course really proud of his work, and I am also happy to see a lot of people saying that they like it too. But, as anything related to design, there's the ones who are not ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/congrats-to-glauber Now we are half of the way to accomplish what we wanted. The team in Manaus already submited all their logos. I have 2 favorites among those. Now the team recife is finishing creating the custom Fonts (as they need to be free) and have also some submissions coming. I ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/openbossa-labs-entries-for-maemo-context As some people know, I work for INdT where we develop a couple of applications for Maemo, and we are really fans of the platform and the whole linux mobile in general. So when I read about the contest it was clear I should make a internal competition with the ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/design/maemo-logo-contest-inside-indt-team-one-is-ahead I was looking the entries for the Maemo logo and I was really happy to see how many people have contributed already. But I also gave some laughs, because I could recognize at least 6 or 7 famous brands there :) Amazon, Palm, Engadget, etc and 2 guys being ... http://www.marceloeduardo.com/blog/maemo-dev/maemo-logo-contest-a-lot-of-fun