[maemo-developers] Corporate ownership of open source projects [LWN]

[From: Dave Neary]

(Excuse me, many of you saw the follow-ups to this mail earlier, but I
posted from an unsubscribed address, so resending for posterity)

Hi Simon,

Simon Pickering wrote:
>> What about a short term plan with common objectives:
>>
>> - Raise in a structured way the topics that matter to you 
>> where you feel
>> there is a lack of response from Nokia.
>>
>> - Tag silences i.e. ToDo (answer will come when we have 
>> time), Planning
>> (still undecided, working on it), Later or Depends on XXX 
>> (other events
>> need to come first), Confidential (the stuf we really cannot 
>> talk about,
>> probably less than you think).
>>
>> - Prioritize the items you want answered first.
>>
>> Proposal for actions:
>>
>> - Niels (web tools), Dave (web content) and Andre/Karsten (to be
>> introduced officially as bugmasters) are your kind of representatives
>> and they have lots of hours funded by Nokia to work for you. They are
>> the ones prioritizing the tasks that are relevant to the 
>> community. Make
>> sure they see how important is the thing you want to push. 
>> Avoid private
>> communications unless your stuff is private: lobby here, in 
>> bugzilla, in
>> planet maemo...
>>
>> - This prioritization should be visible somewhereand people should be
>> able to impact it directly. Someone proposed to have some kind of
>> ideastorm where the community could make visible the stuff that really
>> matters. Voting bugs in bugzilla kind of does it but kind of 
>> not. Let's
>> work on this, starting soon and simple - then improve. Give us the
>> hottest topics in the main areas and let's concentrate on those.
> 
> What's the easiest way for you chaps to look at the points we bring up? Wiki
> page? Or a similar process to the original roadmap items - we email the list
> succinctly with a question and the item & information are placed on a locked
> wiki page for all to see? 

Since this is an ongoing thing, a mailing list thread probably isn't the
most appropriate.

We could do this in a wiki page, or we could put creating a
brainstorm-type site in the TODO list for May, and use that.

In the short term, a mailing list thread here, which I could summarise
into a wiki page, seems like a good way for us to get started.

> From my point of view, there are probably 3 lists that we as the community
> should be providing here. They may or may not be interlinked, but I think
> they could probably be handled separately if that would make life easier:
> 
> 1. Items we'd like to know the status of (e.g. SBC DSP task, IVA, PowerVR)
> 2. Things we'd like to see open sourced and a reason why (e.g Hildon
> desktop, RSS reader, BME, DSME)
> 3. Other miscellaneous issues to be addressed (library versioning and
> request for specific libraries to be bumped, though this might make more
> sense for the bugtracker?)
> 
> My interest is mainly in the first two, so I have probably neglected the
> last one.

Let's use this list as a template, then. Can people identify very
specific things (and please, assume I don't know what the acronyms mean,
and don't know the history behind the issues ;) and I'll get started on
a wiki page?

Cheers,
Dave.

-- 
Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
bolsh at gnome.org