It looks like review samples of the N900 aren’t going to be sent out in the next few days so I guess my first hands-on will be at the Maemo Summit with 400 other Maemo fan this weekend. I travel up on Thursday and will be attending the three days to learn as much as I can about the developer ecosystem and what drives the developers. I’ll be live-blogging the opening keynote, getting some videos done of the N900, interviewing guests, trying to find out what apps we can expect and bringing you anything else interesting that I can find. Here are a couple of extracts from sessions being held:

Maemo 5 and the Nokia N900

• Presenter: Ari Jaaksi, VP Maemo Devices, Nokia

• Abstract: Maemo 5 is a major milestone of the evolution of Maemo. Maemo 5 delivers computer experiences to pocket-sized devices. It is about six weeks ago that the Nokia N900 was launched and it is time to take a look where we are now with the N900. For newcomers in the community, Ari will summarize the evolution of Maemo. He will tell how we built the N900, together with the community, giving insight to what happened behind the scenes in the last 18 months. Ari will outline on what we focused on when we redesigned the user experience from Maemo 4 to Maemo 5.

Changing PC & Mobile Landscape; Why Linux will play a Critical Role

• Presenter: Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation

• Abstract: Jim Zemlin will discuss how the PC and mobile market are merging and how Linux is ideally suited for the new range of devices that are coming to a converged world.

In addition he will speak about how the PC and mobile device industry is switching towards a service economy and how utilizing open source allows organizations to reap profits in a range of services. Finally, he will address the kind of user experiences that Linux is ideal for enabling. He will cover the need for social networking API’s to be mapped out by the community on a region by region basis in order to enable a better web experience on Linux devices and how the web can be integrated into a native UI with Linux and provide an entirely new take on how we define the PC.

Nokia Nseries Devices on Maemo

• Presenter: Jose-Luis Martinez Merino, VP, Marketing, Nokia

• Abstract: Jose-Luis will explain which role Maemo-based Nseries devices play in Nokia’s portfolio.

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• N900 Outed in Proto Expose.
• Extensive N900 preview gives praise.
• Official: N900 available October for 500 Euro.