[maemo-developers] Community council is a representative body - not community leadership (upate2)

[From: Darius Jack]

Please unsubscribe me from maemo-developers list
as I am not interested in your fight for maemo comunity leadership.

Maemo community council is not a good idea as long as the community is sponsored by a corporation, as it may hurt relations
between community members , community representative body and a corporation.
Developer is any developer.
So developer from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Samsung, Apple
is still developer in terms of Maemo.org, subject to membership 
in the Maemo community.

So Global Alliance on Open Free Software is the best idea to give independent developers some independence and protection of their respective intellectual property rights.

Flagship of Maemo is Maemo Mapper.
Maemo Mapper is free open software.
But Maemo Mapper is not open project.
We have only one revision by developer of Maemo Mapper
not a tree of revisions by third party developers.

There is no way to finance developers of free open source applications as they refuse  to accept any money for add-on features.
So any such excellent project is free open source software
but Closed Project in fact.

What I suggested months ago was to build projects as
Finite-State-Machine top-down charts
and to have them administered and managed as Open Projects,
inviting third parties to join and co-develop new features, enhancements, to have low development time and have really hot software product.

GPS navigation is still a hot product, highly profitable to developers and corporations (maps).
One of the hot features is
Map Share incorporated by TomTom.
There is a number of other hot features, which can still be incorporated into Maemo Mapper or other open free software development.

Unfortunately Maemo Mapper is one-man Closed Project.
To get it opened one needs to rewrite it as a Finite-State-Machine chart and tell third party developers its weak and strong points
and let them know binding points for new features, database connections APIs and the like.

Maemo Mapper has still a chance to be No.1 in global gps navigation given new features, new add-ons are incorporated.

So as a flagship of Maemo.org, Maemo Mapper is great application and solution for any commercial navigation delivered to market
by any corporation, generating profit on selling Linux embedded GPS device.

Unfortunately, at the present state of the art, I see today no new revisions of MM by third party developers, showing new features, add-ons, so I name MM as a Closed Project, not meeting Finite-State-Machine standards.

To move Closed Projects to Finite-State-Machine Open Projects takes some time and efforts, but only acting that way a new quality software products can be made in shortest time.

Closing.
Yesterday I had a dream. Great dream.
I was reading news using newspaper-like monitor.
It may take some years my dreams come true.

So please unsubscribe me from maemo-developers list
to let me keep my mailbox free from your fight for leadership at maemo.

Please don't respond.

Darius






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