[maemo-community] Discussion about Maemo community management...

[From: Quim Gil]

Hi,

Why out-dated? Please explain.

I actually can't find any community manager in the communities / social
networks I'm part of. Yet many of them are quite vibrant, based on
common goals and using efficient tools.

Then again, Nokia has actually little to say on this if what you are
thinking about is a member of the maemo.org team. We agree on funding
the Maemo community with some budget to have "liberated" contributors
and then it's up to the community to decide what are the areas you want
to cover with the liberated people & time.

Quim

ext Tim wrote:
> Quim,
> 
> You make some good points, but they seem a little 'out-dated' to me when
> considering the current state of online cmmunities/social networks. Not
> that this is a _bad_ thing per se, just... We can choose to agree to
> disagree on the subject. (And, honestly, the Community Council should
> also be able to do much of what I outlined, if only for more time in the
> day!) :)
> 
> Nevertheless, I'm glad I sent it to the List for future reference.
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:34:03 +0200
> Quim Gil <quim.gil at nokia.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> ext Sebastian 'CrashandDie' Lauwers wrote:
>>> At this point, I am more confused about the difference with Quim's
>>> position. Could we have some more information in this area?
>> My main focus is open source. This makes me look sometimes as a Maemo
>> community manager since many contributors and topics have a link with
>> this. But for instance I don't deal much with end users or developers
>> for general topics. I don't touch hardware either, which is a topic of
>> clear interest for the community.
>>
>> There is other people at Nokia working on these areas. They are
>> working on Maemo 5 related tasks and their work will be more visible
>> when Maemo 5 itself is more visible.
>>
>> Still, I don't think anybody of us should assume the role of a
>> community manager since the Maemo community should manage itself.
>>