[maemo-community] Pushing community software to prime time

[From: gary liquid]

I know liqbase caught everybodies imagination.
My throat has only just recovered from showing people round it at the summit
:)

Its not even complete for diablo, let alone for other OSes.
It needs help but draws us into it every day

Gary


On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Quim Gil <quim.gil at nokia.com> wrote:

>
>
> ext Dave Neary wrote:
> > Hi Quim,
> >
> > quim.gil at nokia.com wrote:
> >> In short, it would be great to get a list of community projects you
> >> think that Nokia should support in order to have them in excellent
> >> condition and ready for real users the day Maemo 5 is released. By the
> >> end of the month?
> >
> > Isn't that the point of featured apps?
> > https://maemo.org/downloads/featured/OS2008/25/
>
> Yes and no. There you have stable apps focused on Diablo. How many of
> them would raise a WOW! from a new real user getting Maemo for the first
> time in her hands? And how many apps not in that list because they are
> unstable or don't even exist in Maemo might have a huge potential
> combined with the Fremantle capabilities?
>
> This exercise requires more imagination from all of us than just going
> to extras and see what is in there.
>
> > That certainly seems like a good starting point for projects to put on a
> > pedestal.
>
> Starting point yes, but think wide. To propose concrete benchmarks:
> things that would impress even your non-geeky your friends. Things that
> tech bloggers wouldn't like to miss in their Maemo 5 review. Things
> that, in fact, don't exist entirely today but can be a reality next year.
>
>
> > Can you help refine the plan a little? How many applications are you
> > looking for, max?
>
> We don't want to predefine a limit, even if our resources will be
> limited and as a principle we prefer to showcase a more limited set of
> applications each one of them being just excellent. A main reason is
> that the only fact that the Maemo community selects an app a 'candidate
> for Fremantle star' should be helpful for that app to get community
> attention and contributions, with or without the direct support of Nokia.
>
> We are more interested in good level of creativity and potential. If
> only 3 projects get there, fine. If there are 30, all the better. But
> getting 30 by lowering expectations sounds like a poor trade off.
>
>
> > How do you plan on gathering and organising feedback,
> > or is it up to us to propose and organise something?
>
> You decide and we adapt to your process.
>
>
> > When will we know we're finished?
>
> 2008/11/01  :)
>
> --
> Quim Gil
> marketing manager, open source
> Maemo Software @ Nokia
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