<div>There have been several inquiries today so I will make a few comments in the hopes of clearing the air a little bit.</div>
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<div>This general topic has been discussed several times before. Like this post, I feel like it's deja vu all over again:</div>
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<div><a href="http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=1181570&postcount=753">http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=1181570&postcount=753</a></div>
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<div>People are going to have to educate and judge for themselves the danger of <a href="http://maemo.org">maemo.org</a> being abandoned by Nokia (and please no jokes that it's been abandoned already). This idea of a backup for the maemo community has been around for quite awhile. In the last few months, there has been additional difficulty suggesting that <a href="http://maemo.org">maemo.org</a> is being neglected - a few open source projects have run into the problems that they don't have input into the infrastructure that they depend upon. So now the desire for a backup has been heightened quite a bit. I suggest maybe reading from the above link forward for the latest discussion. </div>
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<div>For those asking for links to the "plans" etc., please be reassured there is no plan written down somewhere that is being kept secret. Generally speaking, the priority is to keep alive the open source software projects the community already has. Obviously, this is not strictly possible due mostly to time and cost constraints, so we prioritize - the thought at the moment is to keep the repos and development tools first, wiki and related documentation second, but this is not written in stone and you may comment on what you would like or recommend. We want to do this in an organized way so that there is not chaos and we have people doing duplicative and nonproductive things. </div>
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<div>I would also expect that the <a href="http://maemocommunity.org">maemocommunity.org</a> would eventually support the use of maemo related software on non-Nokia mobile devices. This is a bit awkward to do on Nokia's official website so an unofficial community counterpart has some advantage that is not available now. There would also be more flexibility to coordinate with other mobile linux projects.</div>
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<div>Also, Nokia has generally proposed that harmattan should be brought (further) into <a href="http://maemo.org">maemo.org</a>. Again, maemo council has no details, but the general proposal is a bit problematic. The people now active in the maemo community have persevered over the last year with fremantle and are concerned that harmattan will drown out the hard work they have put into fremantle. I am concerned about the conflict that will develop if this is not carefully addressed. One possible solution is to have community open source projects at <a href="http://www.maemocommunity.org/">www.maemocommunity.org</a> and Nokia's official projects at <a href="http://maemo.org">maemo.org</a>. Of course, there may be other ways to address this as well.</div>
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<div>It is intended that the website will be owned and operated by a non-profit or similar organization. The precise form is also up for discussion. We have discussed the possibility of working with an open source umbrella organization such as SPI or SFC. </div>
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<div>If I have overlooked a question made somewhere else, then please ask again and I'll try to answer it. Obviously, new questions as well - but my hope is that people will suggest, recommend and contribute constructively.</div>
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<div>Rob<br></div>