[maemo-developers] Google SoC 2008

[From: quim.gil at nokia.com]

Hi, 

> I Don't know the legal status of maemo. It seams that it is quite
independent entity
> (at least in it's idea). Though Nokia is major sponsor, and currently
is hosting it.

"maemo" is legally a trademark and a domain name (maemo.org) registered
and maintained by Nokia. Formally it is not an organization, although
from a Nokia perspective we are separating it from Nokia/Nokia.com and
we are happy discussing any ideas to make it less Nokia dependant and
more community centric. 

> I guess that maemo participated in SoC as maemo, not as Nokia.

Exactly. When there weresome requests to try out the SoC last year, I
offered to go ahead submitting the proposal and being maemo contact
towards Google. I insisted all the time that this was transitional and
the community had to take this role to make the maemo at SoC participation
genuine, though.

Quim