Greetings all,<br />
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As some of you know I've been working on a project that was called the "<strong>Maemo User Experience Framework</strong>".  The goal was to develop a means of getting user-friendly feedback tools and processes onto and wrapped around Maemo devices-- particularly for application testing and bug reporting.<br />
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The scope has increased a bit to include donationware support and even a proposal for an Ovi-based gaming experience (achievements, etc).<br />
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With the advent of MeeGo I have naturally changed the focus to that platform, and I think MeeGo's embryonic state allows us an opportunity to really think about the necessary metadata and other aspects to support this proposal, and actually implement them.<br />
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The suggestions in the following proposal already exist in the desktop world in various services, so we have examples to learn from.  In addition, some tools such as Bugzilla already present a robust API for a MeeGo application to utilize. I have already created a Garage project on maemo.org called "Buzzard" for the handheld Bugzilla client app, but no real work has started (Qt python developers wanted!).<br />
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I have linked the latest draft of my proposal below.  So far I have included Andrew Flegg's ideas for donationware support (which was based on Maemo and will likely need some alterations) and am looking for more suggestions and technical guidance from the community.  In addition, <strong>I want to propose a MeeGo working group for this project</strong> as I lack the skills and time to make all of this happen.  I am especially hoping Andrew, Henri Bergius, Attila Csipa and more will jump in!<br />
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So if anyone thinks this is a good idea, please join in and let's make MeeGo the OS to envy!<br />
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<a target="_blank" href="http://maemo-daemons.org/MeeGo_User_Experience_Framework.pdf">http://maemo-daemons.org/MeeGo_User_Experience_Framework.pdf</a><br />
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Best regards,<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana"><span><strong>Randall (Randy) Arnold</strong><br />
<span style="color: #ff6600">maemo.org community council</span> <br />
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