[maemo-community] Organizing Maemo Summit 2009

[From: Tim]

Thank you, Dave! :)

Tim

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:25:33 +0100, Dave Neary <dneary at maemo.org> wrote:
> 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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