<div dir="ltr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><div class="Ih2E3d" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); ">><span style="border-collapse: collapse; ">My _own_ opinion is that people who just own a tablet and do nothing</span><div>
<span style="border-collapse: collapse; ">>else are not part of any "community".</span><br><br></div></div><div>I too am having a hard time understanding this. I regard all users and former users of NITs as part of the Internet Tablet community but not everyone I guess is part of the Maemo community (by <a href="https://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Maemo_brand" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">definition</a>). I myself am wondering why should there be a line between the two. </div>
<div><br></div><div>If we build a Maemo community that encourages feedback, does it mean that a person, giving feedback that helps improve an app becomes automatically part of the community? or is there some amount of level or contribution to become a fully fledged member of the community? -- it's becoming messy.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Tim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@samoff.com">tim@samoff.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Ryan,<br>
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> I recommend reading up a bit here: <a href="https://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Maemo_brand" target="_blank">https://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Maemo_brand</a><br>
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> :)<br>
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</div>No disrespect but I'm well aware of the Maemo brand page on the wiki. I was<br>
just giving my impression of what the "community" might encompass. You are<br>
correct in saying that not everyone who owns a tablet contributes to the<br>
community, but as someone who works for a large corporation, I can tell you<br>
that _my_ company regards all users of our products & services as the<br>
community, not just those who "contribute." So, there is some disparity<br>
between what Nokia Maemo might view as the community and what you (and<br>
other) who are part of the community (or subset of the community) are<br>
discussing.<br>
<br>
Again, my last description was just an illustration -- one that I purposely<br>
left <a href="http://nokia.com" target="_blank">nokia.com</a> out of in order to simplify the example.<br>
<br>
As someone who contributes at all levels of the Maemo Community, I'd hate to<br>
see one area discounted in its relationship to the others because it doesn't<br>
contain <a href="http://maemo.org" target="_blank">maemo.org</a> in the domain name. There are just too many<br>
valuable/helpful/knowledgable people who might be technical enough to<br>
participate in a discussion forum (e.g., itT), but not on a mailman mailing<br>
list. Likewise, I know a lot of people who try to keep their online<br>
memberships to a minimum (I'm not one of them). So, if you were a first-time<br>
tablet user, what would you join first? itT? Or, <a href="http://maemo.org" target="_blank">maemo.org</a>?<br>
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