It’s with great pleasure and excitement that I can announce the Malmö festival Android 2011 app an Open Source project!

Last years edition was fuelled by my curiosity about the Android platform and functioned as a way to scratch my personal itch on how to navigate the festival better. A lot has happened since last year. I’ve gotten a lot of feedback and ideas from users, other developers and friends, and I’ve also gotten encouragement by the people behind the festival. Furthermore, I’ve also had the pleasure to work directly with talented people that create Android applications for a living (I usually work in the enterprise development domain). Combined with the huge adoption of Android phones during the last year, this convinced me to try to take the application to a whole new level of awesomeness this year.

I have given this a lot of thought during the last couple of months and I think that moving the project into the Open Source space (under the GNU GPL license) will benefit everyone in the best possible way. I considered taking a shot at it myself (alone again), but the idea of collaborating with other creative people from the Malmö area (and maybe even beyond) is a lot more compelling. Not only will make the work more fun, but the result will potentially contain many more awesome features, than I would have time to create alone. And more awesome features means more happy users! :)

The strategy right now is to get more users to the Facebook page, which will serve as the interface between users and project members where ideas can be exchanged. I’ve also created a non-technical project front page where the users can get the application and / or get involved in the project.

And, of course, there’s the project space itself, where project members can find code, discussions and issue tracker. The project space is in English, by the way, following the festivals multicultural spirit. And, most important, some people have already signed up to help! Whoop whoop!

So, there you go… it’s now Open Source. Let’s get hacking! :)