[maemo-developers] [pymaemo] Twitter client for Maemo in Qt + Python: call for developers and UI designers

[From: Sivan Greenberg]

Just a note, a good friend of mine heard about the initiative and
that's what he said he wants as a feature:
"Filtering of which postings to display using regular expressions and
hashtag names."

Sivan

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Andrea Grandi <a.grandi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> just few words to introduce myself (since I'm posting to MeeGo
> development list too).
>
> My name's Andrea Grandi, I'm italian and I'm a Maemo
> user/lover/contributor since the Nokia 770.
> I love Python as development language and few months ago I also gave
> some contributions to the PyMaemo project.
>
> In these days I had the idea to start writing a Twitter client for
> Maemo with a precise direction in my mind. I'll try to explain all my
> reasons here.
> First of all I've to thank the author of Mauku client. I use it since
> its first version and I'm quite happy with it. Then, why do I want to
> write another one?
>
> 1) Maemo (MeeGo) is moving to Qt and for this reason I'm going to use
> Qt, while Mauku uses Gtk.
> 2) I'm learning Qt and what is better than writing a complete (but not
> too complex) application to learn better?
> 3) Mauku is not free as lot of people could think. Reading the source
> codeyou find this "You are NOT allowed to modify or redistribute the
> source code.", while I want to write a client and release it under
> GPL2 or GPL3 license.
> 4) Mauku is not updated since some months and we have no news about it.
> 5) I love Python and I like to write free software in this language
> 6) I want to give to Maemo a stronger contribute.
>
> Now my request for help.
>
> Before lot of people start writing their own client resulting in 4-5
> twitter clients for Maemo, why don't we join our strength and work to
> a common project?
> I'm not a Python expert nor a Qt one, but I've some experience as
> project/team leader and since this is not a complex project, I would
> be glad to lead it.
>
> So, I'm looking for Python developers, Qt developers, UI designers and
> whoever want to contribute to this project.
> I still have to find a good name and logo for this application.
>
> Who want to help me?
>
> --
> Andrea Grandi
> email: a.grandi [AT] gmail [DOT] com
> website: http://www.andreagrandi.it
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