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

[From: Kees Jongenburger]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Quim Gil <quim.gil at nokia.com> wrote:
>  ext Kees Jongenburger wrote:
>  > What should we do as community?
>  > What can we do as community around linuxtag?
>
>  Thanks for expanding these questions. I see LinuxTag just as a formal
>  checkpoint. Nokia is willing to support more community gatherings and in
>  general further deeper levels of community activities. But of course
>  this only makes sense if you want this.
Hello, I do understand the "formal checkpoint". I don't have much time today
but as I understand there is a deadline to create the agenda today.
Here is how my proposal would go

Talk about python: This is currently a unique selling point of the tablets.
get people to understand how easy it has become to create apps for the tablet.
I think this can help the community as  a whole(I and might just learn
something)


--more for the plafform things--
Talk about the roadmap face2face, perhaps in a get together /
brainstorm. of course
it is nokia who decides at the end but lets try to get some sort of
understanding.

It is good if  open-source project give the developers some way to
"get money doing open-source"
for me it was simply learning and it gave me the opportunity to get a
jobs in the embedded world.
but what other possibilities are there?
A) customizing the tablets (this is where I think mamona like aproach
might be a good idea
B) Getting the hildon software running on more platforms

Talk about "Choices for the future *sbox .v.s sbox 2" gcc upgrade
etc., compile farms etc

Explain again about the apt-get dist-upgrade plans :p

>
>  One option for Nokia would be just to announce a Great Plan with a Good
>  Budget, present it and execute it. Others do this and some of them in
>  fact do it pretty well. But if you ask me I would prefer to have the
>  maemo community organically involved already in the definition of the
>  Great Plan.
Indeed

>  Involving the community in hardware design or commercial software
>  products is hard - especially hard for open source community standards.
>  But an increasing amount of maemo activity is not originated inside
>  Nokia and there is no reason why the community couldn't manage that
>  formally.
I am very happy about current usability of the devices (specialy
compared to some other projects).
This did require some short roads to be taken so I understand


>  - What about stressing that a huge percentage of the mechanics are not
>  controlled by Nokia either, but by a wide range of open source suppliers
>  you can interact with - openly and without messing with the Nokia agenda
>  at all?
This would be a very nice topic! "We did not do it, it was you and you and you"

greetings