[maemo-developers] Projects Nokia should support (yours?)

[From: gary liquid]

quim,

I obviously think Nokia can support my project.

At present liqbase is a usable beta quality application (which just got
added to extras after an extensive testing run), but I believe it could be
so much more.

I have spent the last 6 months putting together the building blocks of an
expansive project with one simple goal: to make our tablets shine!

It has grown into something which I am proud to use and to show to friends
and which has features and abilities a lot of people thought would require
new hardware to run.

Its been (very) hard work so far, and has a lot of the seeds required to
make full use of not just what we have now but also to expand into what we
will get in the future (mantra: better camera.. better camera..)

I already think (and so do many beta testers) that liqbase is a killer
application, I pull it out and use it 20 times a day for such mundane things
that I am constantly surprised at :)

it is a consuming project and I have run out of time, I have ignored my
family and I have drained myself physically.

I cannot continue to build liqbase at night as a hobby, I have never built
anything as large as this before and need help.

I therefore ask Nokia publically and officially to allow me to extend this
project both technically and financially.

I am not a business man and I do not have the management experience to fully
understand the metrics of the numerous directions liqbase can take, but know
with a team around me we can make this work.

Gary


On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Quim Gil <quim.gil at nokia.com> wrote:

>
>
> ext Frantisek Dufka wrote:
> > Quim Gil wrote:
> >> I'm a bit surprised about the little discussion generated by our call to
> >> support cool projects.
> >>
> >> Was the call so casual that it ended up being unclear?
> >>
> >
> > Well, to me it is a bit unclear how Nokia could help to specific
> > projects. IMO all developers will benefit from
> >
> > - early SDK release(s) and documentation
>
> See timeline at http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Maemo_roadmap/Fremantle
>
> > - somewhat accurate device emulation or developer device program (with
> > devices reaching developer hands before end users)
>
> We are doing our best in the emulation front.
>
> Access to hardware before sales start is expensive and highly regulated.
> Nokia provides such access business-as-usual to certain developers,
> usually through commercial or research agreements with private or public
> organizations. Doing the same for individuals or small groups without a
> legal entity is something we could do in Maemo. But you see our point of
> working with a selected list of projects beforehand.
>
> > - in general as much information as possible preferably to everyone
>
> Sure, I don't think information to everyone is the problem.
>
> > If we get this then no special help may be needed.
>
> Then how do you explain that so many promising community projects fail
> in the last mile (or before)? Some developers look for more time, some
> projects look for certain skills, some look for more testing, more
> feedback, more help...
>
>
> >> What kind of support? Whatever those cool projects under development
> >> need to be stable and exciting for real users. You tell us and we will
> >> do our best helping you.
> >
> > Do you have anything specific on your mind? What kind of help Nokia
> > expects to provide in this support project? Does it include @nokia.com
> > developers who will help with porting specific code to newer OS? I guess
> > not.
>
> Why not. Surely the work wouldn't be done by the Maemo SW developers
> busy stabilizing Fremantle, but why not funding someone else to work on
> that.
>
> Don't guess, propose!
>
> --
> Quim Gil
> marketing manager, open source
> Maemo Software @ Nokia
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