[maemo-community] Invitation to Maemo developer event in California

[From: Randall Arnold]

Greetings all!

Many thanks to the Maemo team for really stepping up in the Maemo
Developer event this past week in Santa Clara California.  Everyone with
whom I spoke was really enthused at the opportunity to learn more, share
ideas and realize they were being fully engaged by Nokia.  This event was
a true sign of positive progress for both the open source and commercial
communities!

Some takeaways:

- Nokia understands the concerns expressed by individual contributors who
want to find success in Ovi Store.  No fine details to reveal at this
time but be encouraged by the fact that they are listening!  New member
code177 expressed gratitude at the chance to get his needs in front of
people willing to listen.  He is also appreciated for volunteering to be
the lightning rod here.  ; )

- Nokia is receptive to the "gotchas" that have been hot topics in
talk.maemo.org.  Particularly, support for feedback, donationware and app
testing functionality on the device.  After some really stimulating
discussion I corralled the ideas into what I think is an actionable plan
to accomodate these wants and needs.  More on that soon in Brainstorm and
on my blog (so subscribe to the latter!).

- I was particularly relieved and excited to hear Ashley Walker's (Forum
Nokia) support for local events in the US.  Details need to be hashed out
but I feel now that the push for this is no longer stalled.  As with most
things, it was simply a matter of navigating the Nokia matrix and
connecting with the right facilitator!  So I will begin a little recon
work and report back when some plans are formed.

I commend Quim for having the foresight to get maemo.org into the mix. 
The contributions by code177 and epage (Dialcentral guy!) were
invaluable.

In summary, I came away confident that open source and commercial
interests in the Maemo ecosystem need not necessarily collide but can
collude.  I am beginning to see Nokia's longterm strategy in this space
bear fruit now and offer solid promise going forward.  Let's maintain the
momentum, think positive and not let any roadblocks stand for long!

More info soon!

As always, your community council is your bridge to Nokia.  Take
advantage of us!  ; )

Cheers,

Randall (Randy) Arnold
maemo.org community council
http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com/

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