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

[From: Simon Pickering]

> > It's a little unclear whether it's targeting volunteer developers
> > working on this in their spare time who might be interested 
> in making a
> > living on it, or companies who are working on free software, or
> > volunteers who just want a hand, but are very happy staying 
> volunteers.
> 
> We are referring here to community projects, which imply open planning
> and development. In practice this calls primarily to 
> volunteers and open
> source code but maybe there are exceptions worth considering 
> - you decide.

Sounds good, so where shall I lay out initial ideas for how I'd like
maemo-barcode (name to be changed, suggestions welcome as part of this
process) to move forward and to get suggestions and help in doing this? In
the Garage project itself on its mailing list, or on some more visible page
(in the wiki perhaps)?

I'm all for this, my gut feeling about why projects never quite make it is
that the (probably sole) developer runs out of time/motivation/moves on to
other things; with collaboration there is more motivation for developers to
keep working (moral support and karma) and even if someone drops out there
are others to keep going with it.

Financial support is always nice, but I do wonder how that will work with
the idea of community collaboration and projects with multiple contributors.
Certainly it would be good for specific (perhaps odious) tasks (vorbis on
the DSP for example, as there's no other way to motivate it afaict) but
perhaps not for applications unless they really are one-man projects.

Cheers,


Simon