[maemo-community] Organizing Maemo Summit 2009

[From: Dave Neary]

Ryan Abel wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2009, at 9:19 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
>> Whatever. I don't want to get into the whole "Maemo branding confuses
>> me" discussion again.
> 
> It'd be a lot less confusing if people would use it properly. :)  

Spoken like a true believer :)

If your branding is confusing, then people will use it incorrectly.

> Almost all of the confusion stems from people confusing pre-reorg  
> branding (lowercase maemo) and post-reorg branding (upper-case Maemo).

If the issue comes up so often, perhaps it's not as clear-cut as you think?

Maemo = open source platform developed by Nokia and the Maemo community
Maemo platform = the actual software, including >70% free software
components + some proprietary Nokia & third party software
Maemo community = the people who take care of maemo.org, the community
site, and work with Nokia to develop Maemo
Maemo software = name of the Nokia team working on Maemo

>From http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Maemo_brand

So Maemo != Nokia. It's Nokia + the Maemo community. Which is, funny
enough, what I'd understood. Maemo Software is however just Nokia. Not
to be confused with the actual software, which is Maemo or Maemo platform.

Cheers,
Dave.

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