Funambol, the world's leading cross-platform mobile open source project, is holding its first developer workshop on November 25, 2008, in Milan, Italy at Politecnico di Milano. The meeting's purpose is to provide a forum for Funambol community members, including researchers, students and development partners to meet in person. The aim is to conduct an open discussion about mobile synchronization and content push, Funambol technology, future plans and ways to improve community interaction.
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Stefano Fornari, Funambol CTO and one of the founder of the project, talks about the early days and introduces the Funambl Development team. This video is the chance to see most of the faces behind the email addresses of Funambol mailing lists.
Marco Garatti, Funambol C++ client developer, explains how to use Funambol's libraries to develop new SyncML clients
Alfredo Morresi describes how he implemented a spider that adds avatars to your addressbook, scraping them from popular social networking sites and syncs them with Funambol server. His wors has beens sponsored by Funambol Code Sniper Program.
Patrick Ohly looks back over the last three years and forward to the future of his SyncEvolution project. Plus tips&tricks for external contributors to Funambol: brief info on how to use patcher, quilt, git.
Dario Freddi and Riccardo Iaconelli describe KDE4 architecture and how they're going to integrate a SyncML client on the new Akonadi PIM framework for KDE.
Funambol's Community Manager, Stefano Maffulli, illustrates Funambol Community values and explains how the Funambol Community Programs work. Listen to this talk to find out about Code Sniper, for developers to earn money adding feature to Funambol clients and server; Lion Sniper for people to earn money translating and adapting the clients to other languages; Phone Sniper for users to be rewarded with up to $25 for testing phones with my.FUNAMBOL.