Hi, I recently wrote a proposal for an article about Ubuntu Mobile for Linux Magazine. They replied saying that they were interested more in an application I have written for UME which uses the GeoClue service.!! This seems like a great chance to get more people interested in GeoClue so I am forwarding the message here. I hope someone is interested in picking this up []'s Ian
Hello, Ian-- Thanks for sending us your proposal. In general, the topic of programming for mobile devices is a little too specific for us. Maybe we could do something interesting with GeoClue? Is there some kind of practical example we could give Linux users for something they can do with GeoClue? Is this pretty much for mobile developers only, or could it be used in some kind of lower-tech scripting context to solve a specific problem for a user? Regards, -Joe Casad Linux Magazine International Linux Pro Magazine On Aug 16, 2007, at 8:30 AM, Ian Lawrence wrote: Hi, My name is Ian Lawrence and I work as a researcher at the Open Source Mobile Research Centre (OSMRC) in Amazonia, Brazil . In my 'free time' I am an Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Developer.[1] For the Ubuntu Gutsy release in October I am responsible for writing the Community User Guide [2]. The current version (0.3) [3] of this guide contains the wiki specification blueprints, a tutorial on moblin [4] (the mobile linux image creation tool) and a tutorial on Mobile Application Development using Python. The Application Development Tutorial covers several new tools being used by Mobile Application Developers. The first, pyphantom [5] is an IDE with has the goal of helping developers create Python plug-ins for Hildon Desktop [6] and the second GeoClue [7] is a D-Bus API and library that provides all kinds of geographic information to applications. I would like to present this tutorial to the readers of Linux Magazine. I have outlined a tutorial here [8] and believe that this would be an exciting article given the recent explosion of consumer interest in Mobile Internet enabled devices such as the iPhone. Regards Ian [1] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mobile/ [2] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UMEGuide [3] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UMEGuide? action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Draft [4] http://ianlawrence.info/random-stuff/mobile-linux-image-creation-made- easy [5] http://pyphantom.garage.maemo.org/ [6] http://live.gnome.org/Hildon [7] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue [8] http://ianlawrence.info/random-stuff/location-services-on-ubuntu- mobile What is the digital equivalent of lovely? He wondered. What are the digits that encode beauty, the number-fingers that enclose, transform, transmit, decode, and somehow, in the process, fail to trap or choke the soul of it? Not because of the technology but in spite of it, beauty, that ghost, that treasure, passes undiminished through the new machines. http://ianlawrence.info _______________________________________________ GeoClue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/geoclue
