We are glad to announce that the fifth FRUCT seminar will take place in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, on April 29-30, on the premises of Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation.

Within the framework of the seminar a MAEMO hands-on training will be organized on April 27-28. The training will take the whole day on April 27 and half of the day on April 28, when it will be followed by a special FRUCT session with lectures and presentations about Maemo.

ForumNokia and FRUCT are inviting you to attend the Russoft forum that will be held in St. Petersburg on June 10-11. For more information in English please refer to http://www.russoft.ru/msf/eng/index.html and the text of the invitation letter in Russian you can find here. Participation in the forum is free of charge, but you must be registered at http://www.russoft.ru/msf/eng/register.php. Looking forward to see you in St. Petersburg!

FRUCT students are encouraged to take a look at the information about summer schools available here. If you are aware of a summer school that is not listed, please contact us.

Nokia and Adobe offer Flash developers funding to create exciting, new applications via the $10 million Open Screen Project Fund. Find out more from Srikanth Raju, Head of Marketing, Forum Nokia: http://www.openscreenproject.org/partners/video/nokia.html

We recommend to check the following useful information for mobile developers available on Nokia webresites:

• Ovi for developers
• Mobilising your Web Service
• Qt Developer Training (alternative link)
• Nokia N97 SDK
• JSR 256 Mobile Sensor API for Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and Nokia N97
• Start developing widgets: The Maemo 5 Beta SDK

Call to participate in the 3rd Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Competition. September 30th – October 2nd, 2009, Tampere, Finland http://www.mindtrek.org/ubimedia. Competition deadline: August 7th. Award Sum: 7.000 Euros.

Apps on Maps challenge: Get your app on OviMaps and you could win $30,000. http://www.callingallinnovators.com/apps_on_maps.aspx.

The 5th Eastern and Central European Software Engineering Conference in Russia (CEE-SECR) is the major software event that attracts 500+ participants from local industry.The conference employs a double-blind review process producing a high quality program, which includes globally-recognized software "gurus / founding fathers" as keynote speakers such as Grady Booch, Lars Bak, Yuri Gurevich and others.