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[edit] It's running OpenWrt

So you need to go to their website. The highlights are:

2.1.2 Creating packages in the manual (note particularly the troubleshooting bits)
the new wiki's Creating packages page
the old wiki's page (has more examples, including uclibc++ - not sure if these are out of date)

You'll definitely need to read the above, but the main ideas are:

get a working build environment (this allows you to build new images and individual ports)
when you run make menuconfig, select some useful looking unselected package and make it an 'M', and make sure you can compile/install it (look for the output ipkg in bin/xburst/packages, copy to nanonote, then use opkg there):

 make package/packagename/compile V=99

add your own Makefile in the appropriate packages directory, and do the same as the above. Then watch it fail when the original authors haven't really thought about cross-compiling! Fix problems. Keep trying.
if it says Nothing to be done for `compile'. then maybe the Package/YOURPKG/install section is missing from your Makefile

some nanonote packages not in openwrt are at qi-hardware-packages
one idea would be to clone this repo and add new ports to it (with appropriate symlinks) for easy pulls
There are also some guidelines for the Qi openwrt-packages project