[maemo-community] Moblin + Maemo = MeeGo. Impact on Council?

[From: Randall Arnold]

> ----- Original message ----- 
> From: "Sebastian 'CrashandDie' Lauwers" <crashanddie at gmail.com>
> To: "List for community development" <maemo-community at maemo.org>
> Subject: Re: Moblin + Maemo = MeeGo. Impact on Council?
> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:49:25 +1000
> 
> 
> Gents,
> 
> This was my first question yesterday when I went to #moblin: What is
> the Moblin community?
> 
> On #meego (I'm with Ryan on this one, sounds like a retarded version
> of Julius Cesar: Meego, Meesaw, Meelost), VRe made an interesting
> point, "there are no Moblin devices being sold, no devices, no
> community". As far as I can see, Moblin only runs on netbooks, and is
> a post-buy install only. Hence, their IRC channel is mainly
> developers, and a handful of people asking about supported hardware
> and issues installing. Their -devel list is roughly 2 threads a day,
> and a couple of replies in each.
> 
> There is no Moblin-specific software (as there is for Maemo) -- most
> of it are ports.
> 
> What this means is that fairly representing the Moblin community in
> any elected body would be pretty hard, or even an impossible task.
> 
> I'm going to ask a bunch of questions, because I'm tired of
> suffocating in the lack of information:
> 
> - What does this mean for Maemo (in clear terms)?
> - Will the devs stop working on new release/bugfixes? If so, when?
> - Will Nokia stop funding the servers? If so, when?
> - Is there a chance that maemo.org remains home of the community,
> regardless of the software status, either as the full community or
> community for the handheld devices part of Meego?
> 
> - How will future release be handled? Yes, Meego is supposed to be
> Open Source, but what about device drivers for specific hardware like
> we have now with the N900?
> 
> - Did you know that "MeeGo" in french sounds the same as "megot",
> "cigarette butt"?
> 
> Thanks,


It's going to look like an absolute invasion when we move in.

Probably a good thing there is no MeeGo forum yet.  ; )

Randy

> 
> On 16/02/2010, Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 22:06, Alan Bruce <alan.m.bruce at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> ----- Original message -----
> >>> > I figure we proceed as planned for next month and look at it as a
> >>> > transitional period for the end of the year.
> >>>
> >>> Agreed. I can even see my platform ;-)
> >>
> >> You've got my vote. you're just the guy to surf the maelstrom of the
> >> transition for us.
> >
> > Thanks :-)
> >
> >> Industry types take you seriously, which is what we need right now.
> >
> > I'll take that as a compliment :-). I just hope I haven't burnt too
> > many bridges (with Nokia, the community, ...)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Andrew
> >
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