Developers can now use Qt to target the N900 device and also ensures that applications can be easily ported to all Qt’s supported platforms including the next Maemo 6 release as well as Symbian and Windows Mobile. More information is available at: http://qt.nokia.com/developer/qt-for-maemo-developers.

February 8-13, 2010

The school is for senior students who know  C, C++ and development tools on Linux. The main purpose of the school is to give the conseption about Qt as a development tool for programming on platforms Maemo v5 and MeeGo. 
Organizers: FRUCT, IT-park of Petrozavodsk State University, PetrSU department of Computer Science. 
Lecturer: Krinkin Kirill, St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI", Open Source & Linux Lab.

More details see here.

FRUCT December newsletter is now available here.

June 22-26th, 2010, Tomsk, Russia

The conference aims to organize a multidisciplinary forum for scientists exploring cognition and its evolution; intellect; thinking; perception; consciousness; knowledge representation and acquisition; language as a means of cognition and communication; brain mechanisms of cognition, emotion and higher forms of behavior. Psychologists, linguists, neuroscientists, computer scientists, philosophers, anthropologists, specialists in education, artificial intelligence, neuroinformatics and cognitive ergonomics, as well as other researchers interested in interdisciplinary research on cognition are invited to participate in the conference. The conference program will include lectures by leading experts in multidisciplinary cognitive studies. The names of the invited lecturers will be announced at the conference website http://www.cogsci2010.ru/eng/.

Organizers of the conference provide free accommodation at the hotels of Tomsk for the participants of the conference (free accommodation for 1 presenter of a poster or an oral presentation for the term of the conference). Deadline for abstract submission is January 22, 2010.

The Maemo Eclipse Integration 2nd Edition project has reached its final release. Maemo Eclipse Integration 2nd Edition will offer professional features and future proof framework for Maemo Eclipse Integration. In addition to the native C programming language Maemo Eclipse Integration fully supports both C++ and Python programming languages and Qt4 development in Maemo Diablo and Fremantle development environments. For more detailed information please visit this page.

We welcome you to take part in Qt Mobility Competition for Developers. The first-place winner will be named a new Forum Nokia Champion and win a trip to the Nokia Forum Developer Summit 2010 in the United States. Other winners will receive a Nokia N900 multimedia device or Nokia N97 mini. Developers can enter more than one application, and all entries are due by 31 January 2010. To participate you must register here by December 30.

I'm happy to inform you that the project "Intellectual room" by SPIIRAN and FRUCT has won the Russian Mobile VAS Awards 2009 prize in the Innovative Technology category.

Besides, "Mobile virtual telescope service" (Petrozavodsk State University, FRUCT) was the second in the Innovative Service category and "Incubation model of research competences and businesses" (IKT Academy, FRUCT) was the second in the Innovative business model category.

My sincere congratulations!
Michael Novikov, Mobile VAS Conference & Russian Mobile VAS Awards producer

We are glad to inform you that for the first time in FRUCT history we are planning to organize one day special FRUCT-South seminar within the scope of AIS/CAD 2010 congress that will be held in Divnomorskoe, Russia on September 2-10, 2010.

All FRUCT teams are encouraged to take part in the FRUCT-South seminar; there are ten supporting packages available for FRUCT participants. For more information please contact info<at>fruct.org.