[maemo-community] Events in 2009

[From: Quim Gil]

No feedback? Hum...

Extending the call:
http://flors.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/meeting-at-fosdem-bossa-where-else/

Let's have also in mind the Fremantle timeline:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Maemo_roadmap/Fremantle

Quim Gil wrote:
> Hi, these days the Maemo marketing team is preparing the plans for 2009.
> Sponsoring and participation in events takes a good chunk of it.
> 
> You can help pointing to the events you think we should support. The
> focus now is in the first semester but suggestions on the second half
> are welcome too of course.
> 
> Sponsorship is an obvious way to support an event but we are also
> interested hearing about events where we could support Maemo community
> activities - like having a booth, supporting missionaries, funding the
> production of maemo.org swag...
> 
> In parallel to this, let's start discussing about meeting again in a
> Maemo Summit way. Having it next to a related event seems to be a good
> idea to keep. Every year or every 6 months? Perhaps we can aim at a 1
> bigger every year, with the developer focus but also extending it to a
> more user-contributor friendly focus, and then have 1 or more smaller
> meetings in between - also to cover better different geographic regions
> and not end up always in the same kind of centric places.
> 
> http://fosdem.org/ & http://www.bossaconference.indt.org/ come to mind
> to do something 6 months after Berlin...
> 
> Any other ideas on how to support open source projects and
> activities are most welcome.
> 

-- 
Quim Gil
marketing manager, open source
Maemo Software @ Nokia