[maemo-developers] Are we, as community, ready for linuxtag?

[From: Kees Jongenburger]

Hi

After reading Quim's, mail about linuxtag again, I get stuked at point 4

>4. MAEMO.ORG: WHAT NEXT?
>Mid term: What Nokia should do + What the community should do

I think that "What should the community do" indeed is a very valid question.

What should we do as community?
What can we do as community around linuxtag?

Wouldn't it be great to have something to present as community?
-Do you feel any pressure to make maemo a success?
-What would be a good community activity?

The Audience of linuxtag is "developers, business people, users"
can we offer ourself or others something?

I would be very interested in answers to those questions.
mostly are we ready for linuxtag?

My self I wonder most why I did not implement more hardware hacks
(webcam/gps/hid/usb_host/joy_stick/inter_maemo communication).

What I loved in the last year(as you will see not very much pure
community stuff sorry):
-New hardware (I was specialy exited about the gps)
-Canola
-Mamona
-Modest email client getting updated very often , seeing progress
-The sdk updates and new applications to switch to usb_networking(why
did we not do that ages ago?)

Last but not least, this is the general feeling I currently have.
Maemo feels like a very nice bus. I like the view, enjoy the ride
but I am not the driver and not the mechanics man. Our role as
community is to make sure there are enough steering wheels and we have
our own bus drivers and bus factories. Maemo does have success in
attracting "creative developers" (many nice python based apps) is this
the way to go?

greetings

p.s. perhaps somebody can talk about n810 as "hackable" platform?
http://etrunko.blogspot.com/2008/04/android-running-on-n810.html