Valtteri Halla, MeeGo TSG member, resigns from Nokia

Valtteri Halla, one of the two members of MeeGo's Technical Steering Group, has resigned from Nokia. In a tweet, he said: “Let's say it in plain english: I have resigned from #nokia today but I still have a heart for #meego” What this does to the make-up of the MeeGo TSG is uncertain, as is his next role.

Maemo 5 Community SSU continues apace

The recently launched Maemo 5 Community SSU is continuing to gather contributions, from developers; testers and documentation writers. Now with a changelog (maintained by Christian Ratzenhofer), the project – shepherded by Mohammad Abu-Garbeyyeh, features:

* A number of new desktop transitions;

* Portrait mode support in Application Manager, Settings and the application launcher;

* Bug fixes in hildon-desktop, Modest, X Terminal and more;

* Community patches to Modest to make it better behaved. Although still in its testing phase, future developments will see portrait mode in Modest, File Manager, Backup, Conversations and Notes; orientation locks and anything else to which you can encourage existing developers to contribute.