[maemo-community] maemo.org team meeting Tuesday the 14th?

[From: Andrew Flegg]

Andrea wrote:
> On 7 September 2010 18:59, Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org> wrote:
> > Nokia, Intel, large swathes of the Maemo community and the nascent
> > MeeGo community have all indicated that a "forced" migration is
> > neither planned nor desirable.
> 
> let me understand better then. If neither a migration is planned, how
> the Maemo Community will be related to the MeeGo one?

By inheritance. Those Maemo users & developers who become MeeGo users & developers can move to meego.com. However it's not clear that the MeeGo community will take the same form as the Maemo community. Device vendors *may* have their own fora, or a third party one may accomodate them. It's not clear that the "pure" meego.com is the place for a Nokia enthusiast, for example.
 
> > Instead, people will move to the new community if they adopt a MeeGo
> > device. It's not *entirely* clear if the Harmattan device will fulfill
> > those criteria!
> 
> I think it will depend by the fact if MeeGo 1.1 will be available (and
> usable) at least on N900. Actually we can test weekly builds of MeeGo
> for handset on our N900 and it would be nice to have the final release
> available too.

MeeGo 1.1 is in feature freeze. It cannot make phone calls or send text messages in the public build, nor can it yet use a 3G data connection. MeeGo 1.1 is currently far from a day-to-day OS for the N900.

As for MeeGo-Harmattan HE, this is a different beast. Will it benefit from the MeeGo ecosystem? If so, will developers be abstracted from the packaging system sufficiently? Will it be able to use binary packages for Harmattan directly?

> p.s: sorry again if sometime my words appear rude, it's not my
> intention. It's just that I've very basic knowledge of english
> language :\

I know very well that your English is *far* better than my Italian!

Cheers,

Andrew

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Maemo Community Council chair