[maemo-developers] Where do we go now?

[From: Nils Faerber]

Am 07.03.2011 18:32, schrieb Robin Burchell:
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> wrote:
>> Will Maemo.org and its infrastructure be online for the foreseeable future?
>> I have a few Maemo apps (GTK-only) that I'm in the process of developing,
>> but if maemo.org and its repositories are going to be taken offline I don't
>> see a need to continue development.
> I don't see any signs that maemo.org will close down for the time
> being. There's still interest in the platform and so far no word on
> whether there are to be any change in Nokia's funding maemo.org. I do
> believe that there has been some talk about looking into alternatives
> for if/when that happens though.

Just to throw in some Cents from my point of view...

I would definitely like to be prepared. The pace at which Nokia is doing
decisions with very long lasting consequences is frightening. At the
moment I would not deny any possibility that they could pull the plug
with very short notice time. I do not believe that they will do so any
time soon, but I fear that we have to take the possibility that they
could do it into account.

In this sense we should not yet seek out for new governance, hosting,
financing, etc. But we should be prepared for the day the announcement
hits us. It would be great to have something like the Qt community
contract in place, i.e. a formal agreement with Nokia what would happen
with Maemo once they should decide against it. I am just afraid that we
are now in a very bad negotiating position... In this sense I would also
very much like to see that the community urges Nokia to free as much
stuff as possible of Maemo5 (since it is of no direct commercial value
for them anymore anyway) so that the platform can get a live on its own.

And yes, I think this kind of discussion is also worth being spread to
the developer list since the stability and availability of the platform
itself is something that every developer is/should be concerned about.

> Robin Burchell
Cheers
  nils

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