Qt 5 on Raspberry Pi - the thread

[qgil]

I think vgrade is already kind of aware / jumping between both approaches, right?

[stskeeps]

Uncertain if he knew of this, didn't hear about Taku until today personally, but anyway, always good to have a talk on where we can help each other - collaboration is a good thing :)

[perim]

Totally awesome. I can't wait to get my hands on a Raspberry board :-)

[qgil]

Taku is just a codename for the minimum list of components you need to have Qt 5 running on the hardware. Nothing else, really. This project puts all the focus on Qt 5 and, of course, the Raspberry Pi. There is no willingness to join the OS discussions at all.

In fact I carefully avoided the word "OS" in the wiki page, referring to 'Linux stack' or 'dependencies' precisely to stay away from this expectation. Surely I could have done better since the first thing vgrade tweeted (actually the second) was about "#nokia #taku" which is just plain wrong. Taku doesn't aim to become an OS, it is definitely not something that is developed by Nokia. There is a couple of engineers that happen to work at Nokia, a couple of enginners that happen to work at ICS and that is pretty much about it. Qt 5 and Raspberry Pi is what matters here.

[stskeeps]

[quote author="qgil" date="1319135539"]Taku is just a codename for the minimum list of components you need to have Qt 5 running on the hardware. Nothing else, really. This project puts all the focus on Qt 5 and, of course, the Raspberry Pi. The re is no willingness to join the OS discussions at all. [/quote]

Makes sense - my interest was in the graphics parts on Raspberry Pi and Qt5 usage of those, OS, not so much :) Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[lgeyer]

I'm absolutely looking forward to it.

Do you coincidentally know if the release date is still November or if there is any early rollout for developers?

[passeli]

Hello,

What kind of Qt Creator integration are you working on? Are you working on making own (generic) embedded linux target? Is this work available somewhere public repos?

[rajivr]

[quote author="passeli" date="1319447381"]Hello,

What kind of Qt Creator integration are you working on? Are you working on making own (generic) embedded linux target? Is this work available somewhere public repos?[/quote]

Initially it'll be a generic linux device. Yes, we're planning to make everything available in public repos.

[andre]

If you are at DevDays, drop by the ICS stand. They seem to have some of this stuff on their stand.

[tobias.hunger]

I saw the thing at the DevDays in Munich and really liked the board.

I might end up adding a bit of support for the board to Qt Creator if I find the time to do so:-) We already do have pretty decent support for generic linux, so that might be some nice creative Friday project for me:-)

[qgil]

Just in case you have missed the last news:

http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/11/24/qt-5-with-rasberry-pi-a-delicious-mix-with-home-delivery/
http://wiki.qt-project.org/Qt_RaspberryPi

400 boards available to Qt 5 developers!
http://wiki.qt-project.org/Qt_RaspberryPi/Device_program

[qgil]

431 candidates as we speak!

But first we are looking for mentors to cover areas of development and help with the selection of accepted participants. Check the "Call for Qt on Raspberry Pi Mentors":http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/12/02/call-for-qt-on-raspberry-pi-mentors/

[qgil]

First #QtonPi mentors and participants accepted http://wiki.qt-project.org/QtonPi/Device_program/Accepted #waytogo

If you want to recommend a candidate this is the right place.

[smissan]

Hi,

any instructions on how mentors should proceed with the respective focus areas? What are the next steps?

[qgil]

Sorry for the proliferation of channels but the QtonPi mailing list just got created and that is the perfect place for project discussions like this one about the role of mentors.

http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qtonpi

This thread is useful for those who just want to chip in and out.

About the topic itself, now the most important help is to make sure that the right people gets the board, trimming that long list of candidates. The rest is about soft-mentoring and being sure that evident overlaps and disconnects are avoided. We are not requesting an academic mentorship here, just decentralized help handling the projects done with these 400 boards.

[qgil]

About 150 participants have been selected. About 250 boards still to go. Recommendations welcome!

http://wiki.qt-project.org/QtonPi/Device_program

Please have a special eye on those developers that are Qt Ambassadors & Especialists since at least we know about them. Pay also special attention to those claiming to be maintainers of other projects.

I have created a "More info, please" section for those that haven't provided much detail, no links and/or no clear references to a Qt specific project:

http://wiki.qt-project.org/QtonPi/Device_program#More_info.2C_please

Feel free suggesting entries to go there, it helps cleaning the list of candidates. I those listed in this section don't bother to provide more details then we won't bother to keep them under regular review.

Note that we have currently 324 participants for 250 devices, and the selection becomes harder with every candidate accepted.

Thank you for your help!

[Iktwo]

clandestinahds and eroland updated their entries with links to more info about their projects both for the Robotics area, I personally recommend them.

http://clandestina-hds.wikidot.com/
http://erolands.wikidot.com/

[qgil]

Both accepted, thanks!. I assume you know well the relevance of Qt in their projects? By the description is not evident (at least not to me).

[njeisecke]

Hi Quim,

After getting that Call for Mentors mail I've added myself to the mentor candidate list. I hope I can be of some help for the projects.

Nils

[qtrahul]

Hi, qgil

I have submitted short introduction.

my username is rahulvala.