[maemo-community] Maemo.org

Tue Jan 27 23:58:44 EET 2009

On Jan 27, 2009, at 12:00 PM, <jussi.h.makinen at nokia.com> <jussi.h.makinen at nokia.com 
 > wrote:

> Yes and no. We had a long internal talk of should internettablet  
> talk be
> part of nokia asset (as talk.maemo.nokia.com) or part of maemo.org. We
> opted for the latter since we believe that the discussion should not
> modified by Nokia in any way to keep it true to the community spirit.

I'll guarantee you that proposal would not have flown. ;)

> Anyhow, I still see that the design of the site could be a mixture of
> elements from maemo.nokia.com and from maemo.org. Feel free to say if
> you think this is a bad idea :) At least, the maemo.nokia.com should  
> be
> a bit effectivily put out compared to current maemo.org design.

The design of Talk or the design of maemo.org in general? Talk is  
simply going to be another subsection of maemo.org that will share the  
same look and design. The goal for maemo.org is to have all of the  
different "applications" (mediawiki, Bugzilla, gforge, Downloads,  
vBulletin, etc.) look and feel the same so that users wont be able to  
tell the difference between applications (at least by look). So Talk  
is going to look like the rest of maemo.org.

>> I think the worry is that we'll be duplicating
>> Downloads functionality between the two sites, and thus
>> creating fragmentation, which is undesirable. For instance,
>> assuming that the maemo.nokia.com's catalog is simply a subset
>> of maemo.org's, will maemo.nokia.com's "Downolads" offer
>> comments and ratings?
>
> This is a really good point. Comments and ratings are still under
> discussion as well, I'll get back on this as we know more.

Well, my followup question: Could application entries on  
maemo.nokia.com basically being syndicated from Downloads? Same  
ratings, same comments, just a different interface. So the "certified"  
applications would be featured on maemo.nokia.com and any comment or  
ratings would just interface with maemo.org.

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Ryan Abel
Maemo Community Council chair