[maemo-developers] Hello Maemo - CFSONID 2008

[From: Quim Gil]

ext Robert Schuster wrote:

>> If I'm not confused about the terms, Maemo already consists of only the
>> open-source parts.  The software that comes on a Nokia IT is called the
>> "Internet Tablet Operating System", and it is based on Maemo with a lot
>> of non-free parts added at various levels of the software stack.
>>
>> Perhaps what you want is to make Maemo complete -- by adding the missing
>> closed parts such as the virtual keyboard/handwriting input plugins,
>> status bar applets, etc.
> My knowledge of maemo seems to be incomplete. Well, I thought all this
> stuff belongs to Maemo already. Too bad it does not ...

Not your fault, since the definition is really unclear as for today.
Another task to do in less than 100 Days.

In order to address https://wiki.maemo.org/Increasing_transparency
properly we will need to define the set of packages that make the maemo
platform.

It's not only the open source packages, since this is not enough to run
a device. If wer talk about the platform it's probably neither the whole
software stack preinstalled in an image, including i.e. games, utilities
and other apps. Open to discussion with the final goal of having *the*
list of packages that define the maemo platform today. In the wiki, please.

-- 
Quim Gil
marketing manager, open source
maemo software @ Nokia