Going Mobile The Sequoyah Project
Eric Cloninger, Daniel Barboza Franco (Google Inc. ), Ruth Soliani
Making For Eclipse · Standard (25 mins)
Monday, 14:00, 25 minutes | Stevens Creek
Tags: Mobile And Embedded , Tools
Eric Cloninger
Daniel Barboza Franco
Ruth Soliani
The purpose of this talk is to describe how the TmL – Tools for mobile Linux – project became the new Sequoyah project, which aims to host the efforts of the Eclipse open source community to support mobile software development.
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A description of the objective and scope of the Sequoyah project and how it stands within DSDP;
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Where the name “Sequoyah” comes from (hint: it is not a tree);
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How Sequoyah intends to support mobile software development and help the mobile industry;
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How Sequoyah relates to the Pulsar Mobile Industry Working Group;
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How Sequoyah relates to other Eclipse projects that address mobile development, especially within DSDP;
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An overview of the components inherited from the former TmL and their purposes, namely: the device framework (formerly emulator framework), VNC viewer, protocol framework, /proc tools, device proxy (deprecated) and localization tools;
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Ideas and roadmaps for 2010;
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How to get involved with the project.
Eric Cloninger is the Senior Product Manager for Motorola's MOTODEV Studio. He is also the lead for the Eclipse Foundation Sequoyah project. At Motorola, he leads teams of developers working on Eclipse open source projects and products targeting Motorola's Android-powered cell phones. When he's away from the IDE, Eric spends his time hiking, kayaking and photographing the world around him. Eric is an alumnus of The Oklahoma State University.
Daniel Franco is a software analyst at the Eldorado Research Institute. He holds a BS in Computer Science and has been working on Eclipse-based development tools. Currently Daniel is a committer on the DSDP/Sequoyah project.
Ruth Soliani is a software project manager at the Eldorado Research Institute (an Associate Member of Eclipse Foundation). She holds a BS in Computer Science from University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Ruth works at Eldorado since 2002 and has been working on Eclipse-based development tools since 2004. Currently she manages the development teams of MOTODEV Studio for Android and of DSDP/Sequoyah project, sponsored by Motorola Inc.