[maemo-community] Election announcement article (formatting & questions)

[From: Tim Samoff]

Hi,

That conversation doesn't really say anything new -- or even answer your 
initial question.

Does someone else get any valuable information from it?

Tim


Sunny B wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:43 AM, <quim.gil at nokia.com
> <mailto:quim.gil at nokia.com>> wrote:
>
>      > Due to Nokia's announcement that it will stop funding for
>     maemo.org <http://maemo.org> in 2012
>
>
>     Where does this come from? I haven't seen any announcement, and I'm
>     not aware about any explicit decision of terminating funding to
>     maemo.org <http://maemo.org>. Afaik there is currently a plan to
>     keep sponsoring maemo.org <http://maemo.org> infra costs until the
>     end of 2012 and no specific plans for 2013, yet.
>
>     --
>     Quim
>
>
> Hi
>
> I copy below the part of the last council meeting where Matti Arias says
> funding will stop in 2012 and not to expect "any financial support"
> after 2012.  Of course, we also have the 2/11 announcement and the "no
> future meego devices" announcement.  For the sake of brevity, I will not
> go into all of the previous statements made to maemo council.  Although
> it has been said funding will stop sometime in 2012, we remain hopeful
> that there is a general change of heart and Nokia will not stop its
> support of Maemo/MeeGo after the N9.
>
> It is now mentioned by Bradley Kuhn that Nokia is looking to shut down a
> certain software project.
> http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/08/18/open-source-not-panacea.html
>
> It could be Symbian.  But does such a plan and fate await Maemo//MeeGo?
> I don't think maemo.org <http://maemo.org> should wait for an official
> announcement.
>
> Rob
>
> [11:45] <SD69> is it feasible to continue t.m.o. on a reduced budget?
> [11:46] <SD69> lose Akamai, accept slower speeds, etc?
> [11:46] <mairas> SD69: after 2012, you mean?
> [11:46] <X-Fade> SD69: t.m.o. is one server, owned by reggie.
> [11:46] <SD69> I mean after 2012
> [11:47] <mairas> SD69: you shouldn't expect any financial support from
> Nokia after 2012 :-(
> [11:48] <SD69> yes - I am thinking of a reduced community budget
> [11:48] <X-Fade> SD69: Expect none, really.
> [11:48] <X-Fade> SD69: By that time we need to either come up with
> funding ourselves or shut thing down.
> [11:49] <SD69> X-Fade: exactly
> [11:49] <mairas> again, the amount of traffic is likely to be quite low
> by then so it should be perfectly realistic for community to purchase
> the server bandwidth themselves
>
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